New Disney Channel gives warning:

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It seems that Disney can't show anything without being politically correct. It seems that any Disney movie we ever enjoyed is wrong. Now, the new generation is trying to change how we viewed the world. Read below:

Whenever someone clicks on classic content, they will find this language: “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.” At least Disney isn’t making Cinderella open her own shoe-manufacturing company, or celebrating Snow White’s sexual liberation with a scene where she distributes condoms to the dwarfs. The disclaimer is aimed primarily at works that contain racial and ethnic stereotypes, such as the Siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp, and Dumbo, which includes a version of blackface. (It’s also worth noting that Disney Plus is not streaming Song of the South, a film that has been widely criticized for racist portrayals of black people.) Given the focus on cultural sensitivity in today’s society, it’s not difficult to understand why Disney would want to neutralize the negative effects of its masterpieces without tinkering with the works themselves
 

Song of the South was a piece of trash, not a masterpiece.
Boohoo, cultural sensitivity and "PC" annoys those who weren't affected by racism. Hmmm. 🤔
Maybe @Trade will stop by. Although he is Caucasian he is one of very few SF members willing to speak out and shine a flashlight on racism and stereotypical thinking...not that it would do any good. 🙄
 

I'm so over this politically correct obsession going on. John Legend and Kelly Clarkson just did a remake of "Baby it's Cold Outside). As many know it's been characterized as "Date Rape". So here's the example of the new version thanks to the Me-Too movement...

“I really can’t stay (Baby, it’s cold outside)
I’ve got to go away (But, I can call you a ride)”

“What will my friends think? (Well, I think they should rejoice)
If I have one more drink? (It’s your body and your choice)”

Huh? "It's your body your choice"?
Imagine: You're sharing a bottle of wine.
You say, "Maybe I'll have another glass". He says, "It's your body" 🤣
 
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It’s DISNEY!
Anyone who gets offended by something put out by Disney are people looking to be offended.
I can’t think of any movies more tamer than Disney.

When we use to have my parents come and stay with us for the weekend, we would always get Disney movies. The main reason was because I was guaranteed there would be absolutely nothing offensive in them. No nudity, no extreme violence, no sex scenes or foul language.
 
Lara said:
I didn't even make that up. It was on the News. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Crazy.
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WHAT????
See that’s just crazy. Soon we’ll have people complaining that there aren’t enough gays or trans. Not enough mixed culture in the carolling scenes. Not enough fathers raising children.
Next scenes with cigarette smoking will be deemed not acceptable.


Are we trying to erase what really was ?
Isn’t history there as a lesson for any of us to learn from?

Note: and to make sure I’m politically correct, the examples aren’t from anything I’m against. I just wonder how far this politically correct thing will go.
We can’t erase history. It is a learning tool.
 
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I watched"Song of the South" again ten years ago after not having seen it since I was a child. Trust me, Disney isn't about to dust off that shockingly racist relic, nor should they. All those benign plantation owners and their happy, dancing, well-fed, well-housed slaves who were clearly delighted with their condition and social structure.

As for less egregious works, I rather like the disclaimer mentioned by the OP: “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.”

What a great opportunity for dialogue between parent and child about what to enjoy, but also to pay attention and notice some of the narrow-minded, hurtful, untrue stereotypes of yesteryear. That's the time to explain that they were deeply embedded in our culture, but nowadays we think a second time.
 
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I watched"Song of the South" again ten years ago after not having seen it since I was a child. Trust me, Disney isn't about to dust off that shockingly racist relic, nor should they. All those benign plantation owners and their happy, dancing, well-fed, well-housed slaves who were clearly delighted with their condition and social structure.

As for less egregious works, I rather like the disclaimer mentioned by the OP: “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.”

What a great opportunity for dialogue between parent and child about what to enjoy, but also to pay attention and notice some of the narrow-minded, hurtful, untrue stereotypes of yesteryear. That's the time to explain that they were deeply embedded in our culture, but nowadays we think a second time.
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Exactly. A PERFECT opportunity to teach kids about how hurtful stereotyping can be. Why it was done , what can be done about it and how it’s changing.

A fun teaching tool.

Great point Starsong but I still don’t think they should change anything about the movies. They weren’t done intentionally to hurt others. Disney has been about making happy cheerful movies.
Yes they are over the top unrealistic but that’s the kind of movie viewers liked.
 
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Every Empire in History quietly disappeared and another
took its place, but I fear that the younger people we have
today looking for silly things to bann are sending modern
civilisation crashing into oblivion.

There will be nothing afterwards.

Mike.
 
I find this really upsetting. Life itself is a learning tool. What we perceive as perfectly fine today may be deemed as politically or morally incorrect ten years from now.

I might be completely out to lunch here but in my way of thinking, Disney made movies that made people happy. I’ve enjoyed watching them as a kid and still enjoy watching them. Did I know as a child that things depicted weren’t reality ? No but I don’t think the movies were meant to teach that. There were just made to make people feel good.


I prefer the idea that they add the disclaimer that the film might have outdated cultural depictions.

How sad this world has become in some ways.
 
Is Disney editing their own works or merely offering disclaimers? And if they are editing some offensive scenes, won't future generations be the better for it? Do we really need to continue showing hurtful stereotypes? What is to be gained?

Disney rarely wrote original stories for their feature-length animated films. Existing folk tales, fairy tales and published stories were rewritten, got some added spin and plenty of cultural biases (there were no crows in the original story of Dumbo), then turned them into those now famous cartoons.

As for burning history books and works of art, there's a big difference between rewriting history and choosing which contributions to honor and celebrate with statues on public lands.

If I were an African-American I would find statues of Confederate generals even more offensive than I find them as an American of European ancestry. After all, these officers were battling to continue the horror of owning and enslaving human beings. There's just no way to pretty that up.
 
Now we are going to criticize the Dumbo movie?

Aren’t we as the adults the ones to add discriminatory overtones? As a child I never viewed any scenes as offensive. I was merely a child watching what I thought was an entertaining movie only now to discover as a senior citizen that it’s highly offensive material.
 
Watch this again through the filter of today's cultural advances and the perception of adult eyes, Keesha. You'll likely be very surprised at some of what you see.
 
All things considered I am shocked all old movies depicting blacks as dumb are still on the air. Why prohibit one and not the other? One black actor appeared in many movies and television as sadly stupid. I think he was a cast member of the Stu Erwin show, not sure. Then there movies about prisons where blacks were a majority of the prison populations. Even today Family Guy has some real slander shots at minorities but apparently those are acceptable. The real bullshit about present day right and wrong is interpretation over rules intent and that is plain wrong.
 

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