"1) It was never presented in a distasteful manner. Yes, there is some "ugliness", but it's just a feeling of sadness, knowing something's wrong, really. And at least it was reality, as well as NOT some sympathetic characters who did the deed. We're don't see Bambi or his mom behave in some crude manner, yet made to feel they're the "good guys". IOW, it's NOT an "anti-hero" movie"
Huh? Don't know where you're going here, but Bambi is definitely an anti-gun, anti-hunting movie. I'm not sure what your whole point was about 'anti-hero', but it's an early Disney example of trying to influence your children.
"2) How did you know the guys were white? "
Because any hunter in every Hollywood movie made is white, just like 99% of reality. All the times I've been hunting, I've yet to meet a fellow hunter who was black.
Anti-gun, my butt. FGS, the movie was about a deer's life. Big surprise they mite encounter hunting. And while you assume the hunters are white, you don't actually see that, so that's moot.
Heck, unlike some modern movie version, Bambi's mother would be shown shot thru, lying there w/pieces of flesh and lots of blood all over. That's the ugliness of today. Old Walt Disney didn't need that. He simply gave the foreboding fear, the escape, and the fact that Mama wasn't still w/Bambi. It was bad enough she didn't make it and Bambi couldn't find her. We were saddened by that - and incidentally, NOT desensitized to the gore of a violent death.
"Anti-hero" is focusing on a character who is (greatly) flawed. I mean, we SEE it. He's repugnant, yet we're supposed to sympathize w/him (hence, "sympathetic character"). For an obvious example, think "Godfather", or "GoodFellas", etc. Almost all modern movies are based on the "imperfect" (duh! but he doesn't have to be an immoral ass!) "anti-hero". If Bambi were an anti-hero movie, the hunters would be the focus of the movie and we'd somehow end up liking them, even if they're obviously assholes.
Exceptions these days to that anti-hero mode are e.g. in the Star Wars movies, or even the Star Trek movies of the original cast. Good is good, and bad is bad. Very clear boundaries in those "unsophisticated" movies.