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Disney Plus Five-Month-Old Decision to Block Films With Racist Depictions From Kid Profiles Draws New Cancel Culture Ire
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Disney is taking fire from conservatives complaining about so-called “cancel culture” for a change the company made to Disney Plus five months ago.
In October 2020, Disney Plus added a new content warning that appears as a slate prior to several older movies on the service that contain racist depictions, including “Dumbo,” “Peter Pan,” “Swiss Family Robinson,” “The Aristocats,” “Fantasia,” “The Jungle Book” and “Lady and the Tramp.”
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“This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures,” the advisory label says in part. “These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversat
Several classic animated movies that we watched as kids are being removed from kids profiles on Disney+ because of racist and stereotypical representations. Disney explains some of the inappropriate scenes in each of the movies- “Peter Pan,” “Dumbo,” “Swiss Family Robinson,” and “Aristocats"
Disney+ dumps ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Dumbo’, and Aristocats’ because of ‘racist’ and ‘stereotypical’ scenes Updated
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The streaming
platform has made a bold choice to remove some major titles from its children’s
profiles.
Global streaming
giant Disney+ announced in a statement that it would be removing classic films
like ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Dumbo’, ‘Swiss Family Robinson’, and ‘Aristocats’
from its children’s profiles because they feature scenes that include racist
and stereotypical representations.
The company confirmed the news by releasing a statement
on their website. We also want to acknowledge that some communities
have been erased or forgotten altogether, and we re committed to giving voice