Having successfully been distracted from the cruel futility of life for a few precious moments, buying all of Dr. Seuss’s books within reach—And thus, attacking those bastards on Dr. Seuss’s estate, who decided not to continue publishing some of the books of the beloved author who trafficked with racist troops – the Conservative Indignation Machine has now apparently set its next worthy target in its crusade against things that seem to “cancel culture” if you don’t really know what any of those words mean: a five-month update to Disney Plus. This will show them!
Specifically, Variety reports in posts made this week by both The New York Post and Fox News, apparently dissatisfied with the streaming service’s decision – five months ago – not to include films that require a disclaimer of content for historical racism to be viewed in flagged accounts for children aged 7 and under. (Movies are still in service, remember, and easily accessible; you cannot just access them if there is a reasonable expectation that you, the consumer, are too young to read or understand their attached context disclaimers. ) Such films include Peter Pan, Dumbo, Swiss Family Robinson, The aristocats, Fantasy, The Jungle Book, and The Lady and the Tramp.
What, again: all of this was put into practice in October 2020, before Green eggs and ham it had even become a fundamental conservative text. But the all-seeing and all-frowning eye of COM is not concerned with its linear understanding of time, mortals. THE waivers were part of a wave of streaming services coming to terms with the racially insensitive legacies of older materials, a modern iteration of “What we do with Gone with the Wind?”A question that has been pursuing film criticism for decades. (Or the question “What to do with the blackface sitcom?” Which has been stubborn on TV networks since, way back to the late 2000s.) None of this is new, and most seem quite reasonable, as parents may, in fact, want to talk to their children before showing them something like the racist stereotypes on display in Peter Pan.
On the other hand, the Publish presumably was sitting on that “Disney Any less”Burn for a year now, so good for them to finally work out of their systems.