After a few precious moments, successfully distract from the grim meaninglessness of life each Dr. Buy Seuss book up close– and thus holding on to those bastards in Dr. Seuss’s estate, who decided not to go ahead with publishing some of the beloved author’s books traded in racist tropes – the Conservative Outrage Machine has now apparently resigned itself at his next worthy target in his crusade against things that look like “cancel culture” if you don’t really know what any of those words mean: a five-month-old update to Disney Plus. She will show that!
Specifically, Variety reports on posts posted by both this week The New York Post and Fox news, apparently unhappy with a decision by the streaming service – five months ago – not to include movies that require a content disclaimer because historical racism can be seen on accounts marked for children aged 7 or under. (Note, the films are all still available 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 the accompanying contextual disclaimers.) include Peter Pan Dumbo Swiss Robinson family The Aristocats Fantasia The Jungle Book, and Lady and the Tramp
What, again: all of this was rolled out earlier in October 2020 Green eggs and ham had even become a fundamentally conservative text. But the COM’s all-seeing, glowing eye doesn’t care about your linear understanding of time, mortals. The disclaimers were part of a wave of streaming services coming to terms with the racially insensitive legacy of older material, a modern iteration of the “What do we do with it? Gone with the windAn issue that has been persistent film criticism for decades. (Or the problem “ What to do with sitcom blackface? ” That stubborn network TV comedies has been since, uh, way back in the late 2000sNothing is new, and most of it feels fairly reasonable, to the extent that parents actually want to talk to their kids before showing them anything like the racist stereotypes seen in Peter Pan
On the downside it is Post supposedly had on that ‘Disney Minus“Burn for about a year now, so good for them to finally get it out of their systems.