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Disney+ removes 'Peter Pan,' 'Dumbo' from children's profiles due to negative stereotypes
https://newschannel9.com ^ | Tuesday, March 9th 2021 | Alexx Altman-Devilbiss

Posted on 03/09/2021 7:29:31 AM PST by Red Badger

(WPDE) — Disney+ has removed several movies from children's profiles on its service due to negative stereotypes.

ADVERTISEMENT The Walt Disney Company previously showed content warnings on the films for “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people and cultures” in October but has now removed access to the films for children under 7.

Adults can still view the movies on their Disney+ accounts with the content warnings.

Some of what Disney has said about each of the movies at the "Stories Matter" section include:

“Dumbo” (1941): “The crows and musical number pay homage to racist minstrel shows, where white performers with blackened faces and tattered clothing imitated and ridiculed enslaved Africans on Southern plantations. The leader of the group in Dumbo is Jim Crow, which shares the name of laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.” “Peter Pan” (1953): “The film portrays Native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity of Native peoples nor their authentic cultural traditions. It shows them speaking in an unintelligible language and repeatedly refers to them as ‘redskins,’ an offensive term. Peter and the Lost Boys engage in dancing, wearing headdresses and other exaggerated tropes.” “Swiss Family Robinson” (1960): “The pirates who antagonize the Robinson family are portrayed as a stereotypical foreign menace. Many appear in ‘yellow face’ or ‘brown face’ and are costumed in an exaggerated and inaccurate manner with top knot hairstyles, queues, robes and overdone facial make-up and jewelry, reinforcing their barbarism and ‘otherness.’” “The Aristocats” (1970): “The (Siamese) cat (Shun Gon) is depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples with exaggerated stereotypical traits such as slanted eyes and buck teeth. He sings in poorly accented English voiced by a white actor and plays the piano with chopsticks.” The content warning displays on the films says:

“This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe.”


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To: Red Badger

And, Blazing Saddles, ya know cuz of the n-word.


61 posted on 03/09/2021 8:29:29 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Red Badger
Recently I read that Flannery O'Connor should not be read because of her depiction of southern blacks and her use of the n-word.

So, any depiction is a bad one, I reckon.

62 posted on 03/09/2021 8:32:04 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Red Badger

This generation has zero sense of humor.


63 posted on 03/09/2021 8:32:12 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: Red Badger
That right there PROVES that back in the day we were appropriately sensitive to the issue of race. We understood that it is not nice to be a racist and we also knew that some things are really funny and you can laugh your @$$ off at it.

This present sensitivity I don't care for much.

64 posted on 03/09/2021 8:39:02 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Red Badger

Please everybody...put disney outta business. Any legal way you can. Anything they own or control..espn...abc...whatever. They have overstayed their welcome. 77 million voters..withholding 100 bucks a year...7.7 billion in lost revenue. There are other outlets.


65 posted on 03/09/2021 8:39:09 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Red Badger

Richard Pryor on Prisons (back when they were filming Stir Crazy together)

And Gene Wilder loved to jump in the middle of the killers… and start talkin’. “Hi. Guys. How you doin’?”

I said. “Gene. Bring your ... out of there.”

“What do you think they’d do to us if we were here. Rich?”

I’d say. “.... us.”

And Gene would say. “I’m not homosexual.”

“Homosexual ain’t got nothin’ to do with it. They don’t .... you ’cause you like it. They just .... you just to see that look on your face.”


66 posted on 03/09/2021 8:41:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bray

LIBERALS, in general, have no sense of humor, no matter how old they are............


67 posted on 03/09/2021 8:58:09 AM PST by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Slyfox

Recently I picked up a BRAND NEW HARDBOUND copy of Huckleberry Finn at a local Goodwill. It came from a local school library marked as ‘EXCESS’...................


68 posted on 03/09/2021 9:00:12 AM PST by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

Peter Pan takes place in a fictional world. I would use the Chinese argument Biden used...cultural norms are different there


69 posted on 03/09/2021 9:35:13 AM PST by Zack Attack
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To: brownsfan

This should make all those idiotic Biden voters feel proud of their President:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnafho4KMiQ


70 posted on 03/09/2021 11:16:47 AM PST by econjack
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To: Red Badger

Can’t everyone at Disney just kill themselves???


71 posted on 03/09/2021 11:18:47 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Red Badger
Maybe they should consider REMOVING the name WALT DISNEY from the Company itself.

WHY?

Walt Disney was an upstanding citizen with high morals
and a love of the nostalgic small-town America.
He was outspoken about his faith and his republican views,
his belief in free enterprise, and his desire to be a successful
entrepreneur independent of big government influences.
In these ways, he seemed very conservative.

https://www.worldofwalt.com/walt-disney-conservative-liberal.html

72 posted on 03/09/2021 12:17:19 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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