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Once again, the answer on that is "it's complicated". The origins of tar as a signifier goes back to the days in which, as described by Frederick Douglass in his autobiography, some slave masters would put tar walls around their private gardens. Given their often unfulfilling diets, many...

Honestly, as said before, the theming of Frontierland was already kind of screwed up by putting Splash where they did, as it breaks up the architectural "timeline" of America that Liberty Square/Frontierland originally represented by dropping 1860s-1870s southeast America in the area that's...

The American Adventure does make for a pretty fascinating case study here, at least if we're discussing how presentation matters in cases like this. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves; both harmed their slaves; Jefferson, in particular, went beyond that by never freeing...

Good point, and I'm inclined to agree with that feeling due to it coming across as romanticizing (quite literally, in this case) the plantation setting. Preserve them as historical sites, use them to educate and inform, but a wedding at real life-Tara is the kind of thing I'd be pretty creeped...

MA in history from Rutgers University, MA in public policy and international affairs from William Paterson University, and I'm a high school teacher.

Yeah, no, there's no justification for anything you're saying, and you're coming off like you endorse it. That sounds unhinged. If you don't intend to endorse it, I apologize, but that's how it's coming off.

Then if that was your takeaway, I'm sorry you didn't learn more.

That sounds unhinged.

...You really haven't read American or world history, have you. If that's really what you think the basis was (and, no, at times Natives had superior weaponry during the Indian wars; what they lacked was a defense against things like smallpox much of the time), then I don't know what to tell...

Um...you do know about the amount of cultural erasure that was carried out on nonwhite populations across American history, right? I'm talking things like schools that Natives were forced into to convert them from their traditional religions, cut their hair, and make them adopt European...

Honestly? I'd be fine with Mt. Rushmore going. I don't see much of a slippery slope here: people are most loudly and adamantly against statues and commemorations that glorify what they see as negative or even evil historical events. Mt. Rushmore fits that bill pretty well, given that it was...

That's been pretty thoroughly debunked; the delay was due to disagreements over what would be in the president's script that went back and forth for awhile. And even if it was true, I reiterate: Disney would have only done it because they would fear that their bottom line would be impacted in...

Disney already doesn't show a number of Mickey cartoons due to very racially insensitive material in them (e.g. the one where he paints himself up in blackface for a performance). Warner Bros. has done similarly for various depictions of blackface in Bugs Bunny cartoons. And yeah, Mickey and...

I'll be fair on this count: Splash Mountain's placement in WDW's Frontierland never really worked in the first place from a thematic perspective. If we take Liberty Square to Frontierland to be a chronological and geographically moving line, then we're supposed to start at northeast...

It's an academic term, dude. If you just don't want to engage in a conversation like an adult, please do everyone a favor and just say so.

Yeah, that's a part I think people mistake: racism does not require malicious, bigoted intent in order to exist. A person, group, or institution can be doing that they think is perfectly right and fair in a given situation, yet be motivated by thoughts or beliefs that are informed by...

I'm well aware, and I found Walt doing so despicable. His bitterness towards his animators after their strike in the 1940s is well documented and, frankly, a negative mark on his life's story. Doesn't particularly mean that me "boycotting Disney" would have any impact whatsoever on their bottom...

The irony is that many people of the opposite perspective sometimes have a not-so-rosy view of public radio, too, albeit for different reasons. Unfortunately, I can't help if some people don't wish to engage with historical texts or research, but I hope that speaking allows others who are...

Have you read my curriculum?

No, it's more that I have no idea whatsoever what you're trying to argue. It's complete incoherence.