All classic disney movies are racist

[Fritzvalt]

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You're almost right except for the part where you're not. Being an accountant isn't so much the stereotype so much as the frugality and (depending who you ask, of course) greed that is more often assoicated with it. Add to that a stereotypical manner of speech and appearance and it becomes more and more obvious what you are trying to show. If you see a man in pinstripes with greased back hair that's all well and good. If he speaks with an italian accent he's in the mob.

What I'm trying to say is this: There is nothing racist about recognizing stereotypes. The literal explanation for stereotypes in any psychology class ever is that if your brain had to independently process any information it recieved you wouldn't do much else, so it uses typing to speed up the process. Your last point is true, not everyone who fits the type is black. Enough of the people who do are that it's what most of us see see whan we watch that scene.

I still can't say that I agree with you, but it's pretty clear that neither of us is going to change the other's mind. In all honesty, half of this was just me playing devil's advocate. So, I thank you for providing intelligent discourse, as that can be an extreme rarity, and offer something which you might find amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CSnlb-ymA

Love me some Avenue Q. Anyhow, keep on a'rockin boss.

EDIT: I used to have a version that used video from the Disgaea anime, but, I have lost it.

 

[Kurokasumi]

Classic Disney Movies racist? No way.
Bambi was a hood nigga and 'The beast' was a fuckin pimp.

 

[theultimateend]

I saw the Poll on disney and thought my comment should be a thread. Well I noticed as a kid there were never any black people in disney cartoons. I just thought it was funny ,and if this offends I don't see why.

There were no black people?

You never saw Song of the South did you.

It's a disney movie about how smoking hawt awesome it was to be a slave.

A recently freed slave. The film takes place during the Reconstruction.

Oh my bad. He was still black and there were cartoon characters in it though. So I get a point for that .

http://www.songofthesouth.net/

Still funny stuff.

 

[ISearchForTraps]

Wrong. The birds in the Jungle Book!!

Okay you can't tell if they were black, but you could make a pretty accurate assumption.

You mean the Vultures? I thought they were meant to be a parody of the Beatles, Jungle Book being made in the 60's and all.

 

[OnyxLion]

so what about those deep south blackbirds from dumbo, even family guy took the piss out of it in one of the episodes....

Saying that though classic cartoons from around the 40s-60s were all pretty biased, Warner Brothers depiction of black people back then can definately be frowned upon.