{"id":92872,"date":"2020-10-19T23:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/disney-adds-a-stronger-warning-ahead-of-films-with-racist-stereotypes\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T23:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T20:24:28","slug":"disney-adds-a-stronger-warning-ahead-of-films-with-racist-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/disney-adds-a-stronger-warning-ahead-of-films-with-racist-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"#Disney+ adds a stronger warning ahead of films with racist stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Disney+ adds a stronger warning ahead of films with racist stereotypes<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n \"Disney+
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\n Walt Disney Pictures\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n Disney has quietly introduced a new disclaimer to some of its films. When you start watching these films, you\u2019ll be treated to an unskippable content warning, informing you that the film will contain \u201cnegative depictions\u201d of certain people and cultures. While the films themselves aren\u2019t altered in any way, the disclaimer says the depictions are wrong and expresses the importance of \u201ca more inclusive future together.\u201d<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re curious, here\u2019s what the warning looks like:<\/p>\n

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The link goes to a page called \u201cStories Matter<\/a>,\u201d which lists the members of Disney\u2019s third-party advisory council that is \u201csupporting our efforts to increase our cultural competency,\u201d as Disney puts it. The council includes GLAAD Media<\/a> Institute, the African American Film Critics Association, and The Science<\/a> and Entertainment Exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the films that now carry this warning are\u00a0Dumbo<\/em>,\u00a0Peter Pan<\/em>,\u00a0The Aristocats<\/em>,\u00a0The Swiss Family Robinson<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0Aladdin<\/em>. All of the\u00a0films have uncomfortable, racist caricatures, which you can read more about on the Stories Matter page. For example, it describes the crows from\u00a0Dumbo<\/em>, shown in the featured image, as an \u201chomage to racist minstrel shows, where white performers with blackened faces and tattered clothing imitated and ridiculed enslaved Africans on Southern plantations. The leader of the group in Dumbo is Jim Crow, which shares the name of laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If this sounds familiar, it\u2019s because it\u2019s not the first time Disney has added such warnings to its content before. Last year, it added a disclaimer simply stating that certain films contained \u201coutdated cultural depictions,\u201d which many pointed out was an almost flippant way to address the content. Now the disclaimer has been updated with stronger language, adding that the depictions \u201cwere wrong then and are wrong now.\u201d<\/p>\n

That language is not new: in fact, it\u2019s identical to that which Warner Bros has been using for years to discuss racism in its old cartoons. See, for example, this explanation, provided by Whoopi Goldberg, about the role of Black maid Mammy Two-Shoes in\u00a0Tom & Jerry<\/em>. Notice she says, \u201cThese prejudices were wrong then and they\u2019re certainly wrong today.\u201d<\/p>\n