Splash Mountain re-theme announced

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jaklgreen

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If thousands of people are offended enough to sign a petition, is it okay with you if Disney change the theme of their attraction?

The issue is that there will ALWAYS be people who are offended by something. Be it a legitimate reason or because this is how they feel morally superior to the rest of us. Just because you yell the loudest does not make you right.
 

lebeau

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Respectfully, yes it would be....but it wasn't told by an enslaved black man. Uncle Remus was not an enslaved man.

That notion is inferred by people who want to create a racial issue, where none exists. Now, if the Disney movie said illustrated he was...it would be a different story of course.


Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney's most shocking movie

There are plenty of examples of pernicious racism in Song of the South that are right there on the surface: the minstrelsy of the animated characters, particularly Br’er Fox; the slang in the dialogue; a wandering chorus singing traditional black songs; and, most notoriously of all, a fable where Br’er Fox and Br’er Bear use a tar baby to fool and ensnare Br’er Rabbit. (That part didn’t make Splash Mountain.) Yet the subtle low point of the film comes in Remus’s narration just before Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, when he reminiscences about how things were “a long time ago,,” when “every day was mighty satisfactual”. “If you’ll excuse me for saying so,” he adds, “’twas better all around.”
 

hokielutz

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A petition, some twitter outrage, and a bit of astroturfed bloggers have likely effectuated more real change in the parks than all of us have done in our years on this forum.

Maybe we've gone about this all wrong.

If only we had them back in 2007.... the Yeti might've actually gotten fixed.

ps... @joe_rhode will likely ban me from mentioning the big hairy guy in a reply twit.
 
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