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Classic Disney In your opinion: Do you find the racism in Disney movies offensive?

41 fans picked:
I never noticed anything until someone brought it up
   63%
Not really
   29%
Its actually really funny
   5%
yes I'm very offended
   2%
 Pikatogeon16 posted over a year ago
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CaterdayGirl picked I never noticed anything until someone brought it up :
Do you have an example of racism in a disney movie?
posted over a year ago.
 
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Pikatogeon16 picked I never noticed anything until someone brought it up :
Yes I do:
(before I start, I'm not saying a agree with these but its whats complained about)

Dumbo: Stereotypical Blacks (head crow's full name is Jim Crow)
Peter Pan: Racial slurs to Indians (What made the Red man red- "lets go back a million years to the very first indian prince, he kissed a maid and started to blush and we've all been blushing since)
Lady and the Tramp: stereotypical Asians
The Song of the South: Happy-go- lucky Jim crow like- slaves
Aladdin: All of the bad guys have heavy Arabian accents/ Depicts the Arabian's as heartless savages (ex: Jasmine getting hand cut off just because she took an apple, which in the middle east would never happen./ this doesn't exactly count as racism but.... the poor people in the middle east don't wear vests and MC hammer pants, and the Princesses don't wear sports bra's and Scrunchies

Again: I don't take the movies too seriously but in some cases (the Song of the South), the Critique is so bad that the movie is removed entirely from the public
posted over a year ago.
 
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sophiebridgers picked I never noticed anything until someone brought it up :
i don't know why people think song of the south is rases theres a black man that happy okay so it wold be okay if he was white caz only white people can be happy go lucky and its a movie for kids not roots of cores hes going to be happy go lucky what Disney character is ant ?
posted over a year ago.
 
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CaterdayGirl picked I never noticed anything until someone brought it up :
uh well I think who ever is complaining about those reasons are just being a little paranoid. I don't find any of those partically racist but hey that just my thought on the matter.
posted over a year ago.
 
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glelsey picked Not really:
I wasn't sure which one to vote for, but went with this one because it's never offended me personally.

However, I disapprove of it being there. So while I'm not a victim of any of it, I dislike that the racism is there and am aware that it can upset viewers.

Racist stereotypes (or any stereotypes, really) are actually pretty harmful in media, considering how gullible some people can be, so I do realise it's a problem.
posted over a year ago.