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hunter

(39,005 posts) Fri Oct 16, 2020, 10:13 AM Oct 2020

Disney updates content warning for racism in classic films

A content advisory notice for racism in classic Disney films, in place since last year, has been updated with a strengthened message.

When played on the Disney+ streaming service, films such as Dumbo, Peter Pan and Jungle Book now flash up with a warning about stereotypes.

"This programme includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures," the warning says.

"These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54566087

I missed out on the Disney indoctrination as a child. I'll have to ask my parents about that. It was pretty clear they didn't like Disney, not just for the racism but other reasons I'm sure. They are both free-spirited artists who had other work by necessity. When they retired on my dad's union pension and Social Security they became full time artists.

Me and my siblings had to rely on our grandmother for our Disney fix, at the movies, and on television. I saw "Mary Poppins" in the movie theater with my grandmother. That's the first popcorn-soda-and-candy movie experience I clearly recall.

P. L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, hated the movie.

The relationship between Travers and Disney was "Disneyfied" again in the movie Saving Mr. Banks.

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Disney updates content warning for racism in classic films (Original Post) hunter Oct 2020 OP

but i loved the jungle book. phil harris, omg. ihas2stinkyfeet Oct 2020 #1

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1. but i loved the jungle book. phil harris, omg.

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Fri Oct 16, 2020, 10:27 AM

Oct 2020

fun fact. i grew up in the same house as an artist by the name of ruth van sickle ford.
a painter who belongs in the pantheon of american artists, but never got famous and is now almost forgotten because she was a bitch. and i mean an epic bitch.
her house is famous, tho. on the register.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_and_Ruth_VanSickle_Ford_House

so, why am i talking about her? she was a lifelong dear friend of old walt's.
any man that can be a friend of a bitch like ruth cant be all bad. just cant.

i never met her, but i grew up hearing stories about her. it changed the trajectory of my life. ferealz. i learned from her example that there was a big world out there beyond my small town, and that bitches get shit done.

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