The Animated Disney Classics Now Getting Slapped With Trigger Warnings
(Tea Party 247) – Disney just launched their new Disney+ streaming service, but not without giving a nod to the insufferable political correctness of our day by adding warnings in the descriptions of some of their classic animated films such as Dumbo, Swiss Family Robinson, Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier, and the original Lady and the Tramp that the films may contain “outdated cultural depictions.”
What in the name of all that is holy.
These generic warnings appear on many of the film’s synopses that users will see before clicking a title to view it.
“This program is presented as originally created,” the warnings say. “It may contain outdated cultural depictions.”
The warnings seem to have been applied to films that depict indegenous people, African Americans, Asians, and other minorities in the slightest “stereotypical” ways.
In some cases, this means animals.
For example, the original animated Dumbo, first released in 1941, included black crows that spoke and behaved in a way that clearly resembled black Americans and thus are now instantly deemed as “racist.”
Also now considered racist are the depictions of Native Americans in Davy Crockett (1955) and Southeast Asians in Swiss Family Robinson (1960).
The original Lady and tthe Tramp, first released in 1955, also features the classic song “We Are Siamese,” sung by a pair of Siamese cats with Asian accents. Because, you know, they’re Siamese…cats.
Disney+ has even slapped a trigger warning on the 1942 animated short film How to Fish, featuring Goofy. It remains unclear how the seven-minute film could be construed as offensive.
The new streaming service, which debuted Tuesday, is one of the multimedia giant’s most ambitious efforts to date. But technical problems have marred the service’s big unveil, with many subscribers saying on social media that they have had problems connecting to the platform.
Before it launched this week, some media outlets wondered if the streamer would include the controversial 1946 Disney movie Song of the South, which features a character named Uncle Remus and is set during Reconstruction.
A search of Disney+ on Tuesday couldn’t find Song of the South on the platform.
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