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Disney is finally updating its problematic Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland and Walt Disney World
Jan. 28, 2021
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Skippers on the Jungle Cruise in Disneyland have added some updated jokes to their routine. The jokes are so corny, said one visitor. That s what makes the ride. Kari Rene Hall/LA Times via Getty Images
Jungle Cruise is finally getting a much-needed update. “As silly and overly pun-filled as the Jungle Cruise may be, it has long been criticized as viewing adventure through an imperialist lens,” Todd Martens wrote for the Los Angeles Times.
“While the ride is meant to be a collage of Asia, Africa and South America, human figures of the regions are presented as exotic, violent and dim-witted, humor that in the 1950s and 1960s was troublesome and today reeks of racism.”
Skip to main content We re going to liberate Minnie Mouse : The day Yippies invaded Disneyland, and shut down the park
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About 300 hippies singing the Mickey Mouse Club song march with the Disneyland Band down the Main Street of the Magic Kingdom as part of a National Yippie Day. Police from several near-by cities were called in and as night fell six had been arrested and the park was being closed. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)Bettmann/Bettmann Archive
Before the pandemic shuttered Disneyland in March, there had only been a few days that the park had unplanned closures: the day after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, after the Northridge earthquake in 1994, and after 9/11. But there was another day, in 1970, when Disneyland was overtaken by protesters, whose number and fury about Minnie Mouse and miniskirts closed the park early.
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the non-demonstrators. they re good people. they re decent people. they work and they save and they pay their taxes and they care. and what america needs are leaders to match the greatness of her people. [ applause ] good evening from chicago, where the 35th national democratic convention opens with the promise of turmoil inside this hall and the threat of violence without. today, 5,000 national guard troops joined federal and local forces in imposing unprecedented security. as for the demonstrators, estimate range up to 100,000 protesters. the invading students, hippies, yippies, radicals, activists, mccarthy kids and other anti-war forces. more than 5,000 screaming, cheering supporters of eugene