But it wasn't made today.
you can't look at the past through the lens of today...Every county's history is fraught with moments that a hundred years later seem horrible... You cannot forget the past nor can you erase it.
You absolutely can, and we kinda have to make it a point to. If we blindly excuse the past as the past, we remove any accountability and open the door for history to repeat itself. Sure, society changes and things were much different back then, but to write things off as "that's how it was back then, accept it" is a little ridiculous. Yes, the Disney Company has done so much for every single person who posts here. We all have had amazing experiences with this company, and we all care about it. That doesn't mean we can't be critical of what some believe to be the "Golden" years of the company, or be excited that the company is finally acknowledging some of the skeletons in its closest. I commend Disney for doing everything it can to distance itself from that type of storytelling, and for going through the effort of making it abundantly clear the company they want to be. Especially when it's so clear that they could have kept things exactly the same, and the majority of the world would have been just fine with them keeping things the way it's always been.
A disservice to whom?
This is a falsity. There is a reason the quote is those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. Completely eliminating the history allows future generations to not know about the struggles that happened.
Changing a Disney ride is not eliminating history. Disney has been replacing and updating its attractions since the parks first opened—the world has survived just fine.
Joking aside, it’s a damn good movie!
You don't have to like it, but song of the south is a part of history. The ride takes small nods from a problematic film and turns it into a ride that very loosely relates to it. I don't think the ride scenes are problematic due to the lack of blatant racist stereotypes, even if it does take references from a film that is.
We are constantly changing what the past has bequeathed us—that’s how progress happens. History isn’t lost in the process; it’s recorded in books and other depositories of information.
I am sorry, but that is not totally true. there have been many, many cases of history being revised, post changes like this. History is always usually in the eye of the victor, not the loser.
I’m referring to the normal changes that happen in the course of life (we’ve all experienced them), not diktats imposed by a conquering regime. Please let’s keep things in perspective here.
You refer to “the great source STORIES” even as you say that “[f]ocusing on the source material” is wrongheaded. That seems contradictory to me.
That's a fair statement. With my post I was frustrated by the focus on the movie in recent posts. I acknowledge its problems but I believe the attraction extracted postive aspects from the source and created a new entity. It is Splash Mountain, and is disconnected from the film. In my mind the necessary steps to use these characters and stories in a new and respectful manner already occurred 30 years ago. It allowed disney to keep a wonderful piece of their history alive for new generations instead of keeping ALL aspects of the material buried forever. This is managment taking an extremely "safe" appeoach to the situation. In my opinion it's lazy and unnecessary.
As someone who really enjoys the current theme and is personally sad to see it go, I get where you’re coming from—I too used to think Disney had done enough to disassociate the ride from its source. But perspectives can shift, and I’ve heard and read things this past year that have made me realise that there are people—Disney fans of colour, not the much-maligned “woke mob”—for whom the change is significant and welcome. That should mean something, or at least be taken into account and engaged with as a legitimate point of view.
