Some idiot journalist made up an issue and it naturally upset people.
Not an idiot. It was actually a really well written article that raised a lot of interesting questions. Don't be so afraid of ideas you have to dismiss them without critical analysis. THAT is the real cancel culture.
BTW The editor weighed in on the "controversy:"
“It’s hard to understand why the Disneyland of 2021 would choose to add a scene with such old-fashioned ideas of what a man is allowed to do to a woman, especially given the company’s current emphasis on removing problematic scenes from rides like Jungle Cruise and Splash Mountain,” Julie Tremaine and Katie Dowd wrote.
While the piece ends with praise for the ride, and even for the final scene “as long as you’re watching it as a fairy tale, not a life lesson,” the piece became a rallying cry for Fox News and other conservative media, which declared that “cancel culture” was targeting Snow White.
Tremaine, a contributing editor for the site who covers Disneyland, said the backlash grew far beyond the level of criticism in the story.
Some of the responses included mentions of sexual violence and suggestions of suicide.
“Our message got rewritten so many times,” she said. “Every time it got rewritten, it got bigger and more offensive and more distorted from what we actually wrote.”
She has written about other updates underway and potential future ones, and understands that fans who grew up with Disney parks or movies have such a “deep ingrained emotional attachment” to their memories that they don’t want to see anything change. But, Tremaine said, she expects to see the company continue to examine old tropes that are no longer acceptable.
And if you really want to be triggered, here's part of the same article, this time from the writer at wapo:
For now, there’s a laundry list of other nominees for eventual updates: the Peter Pan ride for stereotypical depictions of Indigenous people; a ride in Epcot’s Mexico area that includes broad stereotypes; Dumbo, which is based on a movie that includes racist tropes. Fan sites circulate longer lists of what rides might be under the microscope next, occasionally with outraged remarks: It’s a Small World, Hall of Presidents, Country Bear Jamboree.
Disney isn’t saying what is next, but the company has dedicated a team to making sure that updates are done right.
“You create experiences that will make people feel welcome, seen and heard and to let them know that their stories are just as important,” Carmen Smith, creative development and inclusion strategies executive for Walt Disney Imagineering, said in a video. “And so my responsibility is to look at what do we have now and does it resonate with our guest in making them more reflective of the world we live in.”
