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14-11-2019, 04:14 PM | #1 | |||
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Disney has added warnings about racist stereotypes in classic films, including Dumbo, The Jungle Book, Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp. The films, mostly from the Forties and Fifties, now come with a warning about offensive tropes on the US company's new streaming service Disney Plus, which launched on Tuesday. Among the more notorious scenes from the children's cartoons are the Siamese cats in the 1955 film Lady and the Tramp, depicting an East Asian stereotype. Peter Pan, released in 1953, includes a tribe of Native American characters who sing a song called “What Makes the Red Man Red?” The 1941 film Dumbo maintains a crow character called Jim Crow, a reference to racist laws suppressing and segregating African Americans in the American South. Descriptions of the programmes say: “This programme is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions." More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ms-lady-tramp/ |
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14-11-2019, 04:17 PM | #2 | |||
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Yes they are all doing it.
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14-11-2019, 04:18 PM | #3 | |||
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14-11-2019, 04:19 PM | #4 | ||
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When children will be watching it's important to have that context. Better to present the films as they are with some context attached than to cut the content out, surely?
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14-11-2019, 04:19 PM | #5 | |||
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Classy move
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14-11-2019, 04:21 PM | #6 | |||
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WTF, why is the world changing so much towards that ''politically correct''
there weren't complaints when these movies premiered in theatres
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14-11-2019, 04:22 PM | #7 | |||
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I may be wrong but i would imagine this would be legally led to avoid lawsuits from nefarious sources?
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14-11-2019, 04:23 PM | #8 | |||
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Agree. Far too much of this political correctness crap about. Fgs.
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14-11-2019, 04:23 PM | #9 | |||
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It's just a warning before the films air? What's wrong with that?
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14-11-2019, 04:24 PM | #10 | ||
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It's the right thing to do, it's better to take an ugly part of history and turn it into a teachable moment rather than scrub it from existence. Better to acknowledge the faults than to brush them under the rug.
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14-11-2019, 04:25 PM | #11 | ||
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14-11-2019, 04:31 PM | #12 | |||
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Imagine being annoyed at a family friendly company taking measures to try and refute racism
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14-11-2019, 04:31 PM | #13 | |||
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14-11-2019, 04:58 PM | #14 | |||
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You people really are out here pretending to care an ounce about the cultural preservation of the racist crows in Dumbo for the sake of your stale "PC gone mad!!!!" stances, huh
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14-11-2019, 04:59 PM | #15 | |||
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So? Would people rather the content be cut altogether?
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14-11-2019, 05:00 PM | #16 | |||
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14-11-2019, 05:21 PM | #17 | |||
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How come this thread ain't fallen into a funny word switch game yet.
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14-11-2019, 05:26 PM | #18 | ||
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Well done Disney.
Bigotry should be addressed |
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14-11-2019, 05:27 PM | #19 | |||
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14-11-2019, 05:35 PM | #20 | ||
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14-11-2019, 05:37 PM | #21 | |||
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14-11-2019, 05:40 PM | #22 | |||
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That said, it's important these things aren't edited out of the originals because it provides a context into just how prevalent these stereotypes and offensive caricatures were up until extremely recent times. Edit: look at Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Extremely offensive, and yet it hasn't done any damage to the film's reputation by being kept in. It's just a small window into a society that used to be far more racist in the 50s than it is now.
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14-11-2019, 05:44 PM | #23 | |||
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hopefully that is what parents are for |
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14-11-2019, 05:51 PM | #24 | ||
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Disney a gay friendly, anti racism company. Great example for kids
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14-11-2019, 05:59 PM | #25 | |||
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