...or, To Hell With the PC Brigade
Disney has been hit with allegations of racism about a new animated film it will be releasing in 2009, which is its first ever to star a lead character who is black. As far as the plotline is known, it is a "slavery-themed proposed storyline: our heroine is an exploited black maid in New Orleans saved by voodoo (i.e. African) magic." How this is racist, I do not know. Were or were not blacks once slaves in most parts of the world? Is this factually accurate or not? And the whingers who are complaining about this film must have missed the fact that the plot revolves around a black slave being freed - with that presumably being the "happy ending" of the tale. Are these cretins going to go so far as to claim that Disney is pro-slavery? Nonsense.
A previous Disney film, Aladdin, received similar complaints from Muslims and Arabs for allegedly being "laden with colonial-era stereotypes of the East as a land of decadence and savagery". Because of course, it would be much more intellectually honest to depict Aladdin driving around in a Ferrari and the Arabian market sellers doing well on the stock market.
What all of this demonstrates is the essentially perverse nature of the PC crowd. If Disney don't include ethnic minority characters, it's racist. If they do include ethnic minority characters, it's also racist. They can't win, because the PC ideologues have already made up their minds.
To hell with them all, I say. The world would be better off without such pretentious, opportunistic pond life.
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