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Someone Is Mad With Disney Princesses Being Too White, Gets Shut Down With Facts
Someone Is Mad With Disney Princesses Being Too White, Gets Shut Down With Facts
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Life influences art and Walt Disney’s racism was no exception – just look up the since-banned Disney film “Song of The South.” But despite their creator, the company has steadily tried to become more progressive, especially with their newer more diverse and feminist Disney Princesses – but not everyone is satisfied.

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    Recently someone created a graphic that showed each season represented by a Disney princess

    One commenter didn’t hesitate to call out the image creator blaming Disney

    This person defended Disney against any claim of whitewashing, with this (slightly wrong) geography argument

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    P.S. Yes. Brave is set in Scotland, not Ireland, but that doesn’t make a huge difference as we know most scots are as white as a sheet of paper.

    And the comments on their argument was just as divided

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    djinnjeannie
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Brave was most definitely NOT set in Ireland but yeah us Scots are pretty pasty too

    bob
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I mean, I'm French and even I can recognize the accent of the characters.

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    William Teach
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Funny how some people see things only in terms of race, then accuse Other People of being racists.

    Random Panda
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The problem of people like this is that they separate people only based on skin colour. Culture matters even more, just because a character is the same colour as you it doesn't mean you will feel represented by them if they are from a completely different culture - sincerely, an Eastern European who barely gets positive representation in western media.

    Enomfon Asuquo
    Community Member
    7 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you. This is the same with Africans and people who are from north America. I am from Nigeria and my ancestors were not slaves. I have never received any racial prejudice in my life but I console anyone who has. I can't really relate more to the stereotypical black person in America other than our skin being the same.

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    Herenya1989
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People are always looking something to complain about or making something racist when it isn't. It will never ends.

    Kururi.Orihara
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most people make random things racist when it isn't. That's why I can't really take racial things seriously. I mean, I know it exists and everything, but not everything that happens to you is because of your race. There are other problems in the world too.

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    CCL_2018
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're all culturally diverse. That should count for more than skin tone.

    Sarah Schwill
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People have way too much time nowadays 🙄

    Daria B
    Community Member
    7 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *yawn* If you're bothered with Caucasian characters, why not search for non-mainstream international works of art and entertainment yourself? Let's start with Japan and Korea, since they're pretty easy to find. Many of Japanese stories are set in a European background, true, but twice as many include exclusively east Asian people, or raceless characters (I mean, which ethnicity has naturally green hair). Oh, and Aliens. Let's not forget aliens. Hey! No need to move away from USA pop culture after all either. Star Trek, Star Wars, so many Marvel and DC heroes... Maybe you can look it up yourself about multimedia done by African producers in Africa by African authors and based on African stories too. I mean, people just want to complain, without bothering doing the actual work and educate themselves so they can both enjoy diversity and promote international art at the same time.

    Unlikely
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That always bothered me.. people crying over the lack of POC folks in fairytale movies or historian movies when it's set in a country and time period that just didn't had a lot of variety. Y'all can't change history. I know whitewashing is a huge problem in hollywood, but this is not it..

    Stille20
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Frankly I think most of these arguments are lame debates between people who are not facing real racism. It distracts from real, large scale problems.

    Martha Meyer
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most Disney characters are white because Disney has only recently started to include non-white characters on purpose. For seasons of the Northern hemisphere however (spring, summer, autumn, fall) it does make some sense to use the white characters predominantly from there. Other parts of the globe have completely different seasons (monsoon season for example) or the difference in seasons is barely noticeable at all because it's hot all year round.

    Rebecca Catherine
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are vast expanse of the globe that experience the four seasons just as North America and Europe. That’s kind of the whole point of a globe. W e a t h e r

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    djinnjeannie
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Brave was most definitely NOT set in Ireland but yeah us Scots are pretty pasty too

    bob
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I mean, I'm French and even I can recognize the accent of the characters.

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    William Teach
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Funny how some people see things only in terms of race, then accuse Other People of being racists.

    Random Panda
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The problem of people like this is that they separate people only based on skin colour. Culture matters even more, just because a character is the same colour as you it doesn't mean you will feel represented by them if they are from a completely different culture - sincerely, an Eastern European who barely gets positive representation in western media.

    Enomfon Asuquo
    Community Member
    7 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you. This is the same with Africans and people who are from north America. I am from Nigeria and my ancestors were not slaves. I have never received any racial prejudice in my life but I console anyone who has. I can't really relate more to the stereotypical black person in America other than our skin being the same.

    Load More Replies...
    Herenya1989
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People are always looking something to complain about or making something racist when it isn't. It will never ends.

    Kururi.Orihara
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most people make random things racist when it isn't. That's why I can't really take racial things seriously. I mean, I know it exists and everything, but not everything that happens to you is because of your race. There are other problems in the world too.

    Load More Replies...
    CCL_2018
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're all culturally diverse. That should count for more than skin tone.

    Sarah Schwill
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People have way too much time nowadays 🙄

    Daria B
    Community Member
    7 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *yawn* If you're bothered with Caucasian characters, why not search for non-mainstream international works of art and entertainment yourself? Let's start with Japan and Korea, since they're pretty easy to find. Many of Japanese stories are set in a European background, true, but twice as many include exclusively east Asian people, or raceless characters (I mean, which ethnicity has naturally green hair). Oh, and Aliens. Let's not forget aliens. Hey! No need to move away from USA pop culture after all either. Star Trek, Star Wars, so many Marvel and DC heroes... Maybe you can look it up yourself about multimedia done by African producers in Africa by African authors and based on African stories too. I mean, people just want to complain, without bothering doing the actual work and educate themselves so they can both enjoy diversity and promote international art at the same time.

    Unlikely
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That always bothered me.. people crying over the lack of POC folks in fairytale movies or historian movies when it's set in a country and time period that just didn't had a lot of variety. Y'all can't change history. I know whitewashing is a huge problem in hollywood, but this is not it..

    Stille20
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Frankly I think most of these arguments are lame debates between people who are not facing real racism. It distracts from real, large scale problems.

    Martha Meyer
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most Disney characters are white because Disney has only recently started to include non-white characters on purpose. For seasons of the Northern hemisphere however (spring, summer, autumn, fall) it does make some sense to use the white characters predominantly from there. Other parts of the globe have completely different seasons (monsoon season for example) or the difference in seasons is barely noticeable at all because it's hot all year round.

    Rebecca Catherine
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are vast expanse of the globe that experience the four seasons just as North America and Europe. That’s kind of the whole point of a globe. W e a t h e r

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