Is Disney racist?
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2012/04/29 06:10:25
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Clyde 2012/04/29 11:50:29No
+8Worry about real problems, I think your searching for ways to make things racist if that bothers you. No children today getting that candy would think twice about the graphics and tear into to it to start eating it. I love watermelon, so am I suppose to be offended that someone thinks I'm simple if there is a picture of a white person eating it? The more people keep making issues out nothing, it just fuels the hatred and divisiveness.
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All of us are racist for answering it.
Soda head is racist for not blocking it
The ISP you use is racist for allowing you to go to a site where such questions can be asked
The power company is racist for supplying power to you and the ISP.
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The talk of bedroom eyes and strapless dresses is a wild stretch. First you must consider that the princess's on both packages are 100% fitting the likenesses of the characters themselves. Sleeping Beauty was created in what, the 1950's. That alone should explain why she's wearing a long-sleeved dress. The Princess and the Frog was released in 2009 - we've cleared the hurdle of long-sleeved dresses only in kids movies - and that movie is also based in New Orleans which is pretty freaking hot, for those who don't know.
So yes, the flavors seem overt, wrong and... just wrong. There was sufficient reason to warrant question right there. The rest of the article seemed to stretch so much that it took away from the initial, undeniable wrong and unnecessarily. imo Does this mean Disney as a whole is racist? I can't jump head first into that. Sorry. I really don't think the character Tiana was created as a racial stereotype, and I've seen the movie. But yes, whoever was tasked with designating flavors to characters for this candy needs to be fired. They're clearly not the sharpest tool in the box. lol
It is a well known fact that the founder of Disney, Walt Disney, was anti-semitic. This attitude is likely responsible for the fact that there has been no Jewish protagonist in his films.
In the Princess and the Frog, the film in which this argument centers around, there are caricatures of black stereotypes, as there are in many older Disney films http://www.cracked.com/articl... (the blackbirds from Dumbo.) The reference between watermelon and black people is one old as the South itself. Was it racist to pair up the only black princess with the one flavor that would draw up ire, yes. It was most likely due to subconscious racism, which is in itself not a conscious and deliberate act. Was it insensitive, offensive, and ill conceived, yes. Malevolent, probably not but you have t...
It is a well known fact that the founder of Disney, Walt Disney, was anti-semitic. This attitude is likely responsible for the fact that there has been no Jewish protagonist in his films.
In the Princess and the Frog, the film in which this argument centers around, there are caricatures of black stereotypes, as there are in many older Disney films http://www.cracked.com/articl... (the blackbirds from Dumbo.) The reference between watermelon and black people is one old as the South itself. Was it racist to pair up the only black princess with the one flavor that would draw up ire, yes. It was most likely due to subconscious racism, which is in itself not a conscious and deliberate act. Was it insensitive, offensive, and ill conceived, yes. Malevolent, probably not but you have to wonder how many people saw this idea before it was actually brought to market without considering that it may not be wise.
I'd still like to see them re-release a cleaned up BlueRay DVD of Song of the South.
But watermelon? It's a candy flavor, and no one is going to think that coincidence is intentional, because it's so far fetched. The fact that she is "sultry" has not a single thing to do with her race; she's not portrayed as dumb/ignorant, therefore DIsney not perpetuating the more popular stereotype about Blacks. That they would have dug through the Bible to find a different, hidden stereotype is nonsense. Good Lord; if people are teaching kids to look for racist symbolism while buying candy, social equality is not going to get anywhere...
Do you know why it's nonsense? Remember when people thought Disney spelled out "Sex" in the stars in the Lion King? It turned out to be "SFX"...a tribute to the sound staff.
He got the reputation because, in the 1940s, he got himself allied with a group called the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, which was an anti-Communist and antisemitic organization. And though Walt himself was not antisemitic, nevertheless, he willingly allied himself with people who were antisemitic, and that reputation stuck. He was never really able to expunge it throughout his life.
Disney eventually distanced himself from the Motion Picture Alliance in the 1950s.
The Walt Disney Family Museum acknowledges that Disney did have "difficult relationships" with some Jewish individuals, and that ethnic stereotypes common to films of the 1930s were included in some early cartoons, such as Three Little Pigs and The Opry House. However, the museum points out that Disney employed Jews throughout his career, donated to several Jewish charities (The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Yeshiva College, Jewish Home for the Aged, The American League for a Free Palestine) and was named "1955 Man of the Year" by the B'nai B'rith chapter in Beverly Hills.
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