Comments on: Disney shows kids a “Whole New World,” but is it the right one? http://www.theontarion.com/2010/03/disney-shows-kids-a-%e2%80%9cwhole-new-world%e2%80%9d-but-is-it-the-right-one/ Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:01:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jordan http://www.theontarion.com/2010/03/disney-shows-kids-a-%e2%80%9cwhole-new-world%e2%80%9d-but-is-it-the-right-one/comment-page-1/#comment-836 Jordan Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:00:26 +0000 http://www.theontarion.com/?p=1437#comment-836 this is absolutely ridiculous a philosophy professor analyzing disney films with a target audience of 6 years old is actually surprised at the simplification of its characters and plot lines? has this world gone mad? of course alladin wont have an accent... its an american film. "physically middle eastern characters": it seemed to me only that the good guy is portrayed as handsome, and the bad guys as ugly buffoons...as is the case in almost every single fairy tale in the history of literature ANYWHERE! it seems only a racist could draw such racist conclusions from it and really..what do you want to do about pinoccio? change the entire story, its setting, the characters names, and so on, so that the villain can be a white conservative christian male from the united states? then it would be acceptable or what? of course the villian is italian! its set in italy! and of course he's bad tempered....hes a villian! i think we are all becoming a tad too sensitive, and over-analyzing things which don't need it. this is absolutely ridiculous a philosophy professor analyzing disney films with a target audience of 6 years old is actually surprised at the simplification of its characters and plot lines? has this world gone mad? of course alladin wont have an accent… its an american film. “physically middle eastern characters”: it seemed to me only that the good guy is portrayed as handsome, and the bad guys as ugly buffoons…as is the case in almost every single fairy tale in the history of literature ANYWHERE! it seems only a racist could draw such racist conclusions from it

and really..what do you want to do about pinoccio? change the entire story, its setting, the characters names, and so on, so that the villain can be a white conservative christian male from the united states? then it would be acceptable or what? of course the villian is italian! its set in italy! and of course he’s bad tempered….hes a villian!

i think we are all becoming a tad too sensitive, and over-analyzing things which don’t need it.

]]> By: Madeleine http://www.theontarion.com/2010/03/disney-shows-kids-a-%e2%80%9cwhole-new-world%e2%80%9d-but-is-it-the-right-one/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Madeleine Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:18 +0000 http://www.theontarion.com/?p=1437#comment-810 This is certainly an interesting topic, but my thought while reading this was "yeah, I knew all this already". I think many of us have already heard of the perils of Disney, so to have it presented as news seems a little silly. This is certainly an interesting topic, but my thought while reading this was “yeah, I knew all this already”. I think many of us have already heard of the perils of Disney, so to have it presented as news seems a little silly.

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