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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby stahrgazer on Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:21 pm

InsomniaRed wrote:Good thing Aladdin was an American movie and not an Arabian one!


Yeah, but the story was a French translation of a middle eastern folktale.

Aladdin (Arabic: علاؔ Ų§Ł„ŲÆŁŠŁ†, Ź»Alāʼ ad-DÄ«n; literally meaning in English; "nobility of the faith") is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland (see sources and setting).[2]

Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 – February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of The Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights in English). His version of the tales appeared in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717 and exerted a huge influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world.
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby The Bison King on Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:21 pm

Lootifer wrote:Only skimmed thread, but regardless of what Walt was or wasn't, Disney, as a maker of cartoons, is just pretty bad at what they do.

Nick/CN >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Disney

:-s So you're like what? 8 or 9? or do you just have no appreciation for film history?
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby InsomniaRed on Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:23 pm

Yeah it's kind of ridiculous to say Disney is racist/sexist for things they produced. I mean, hell, if the Old Testament allows polygamy, slaves and racism...should we be telling people who believe in God and follow the bible that they are all sexist and racist too?
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby InsomniaRed on Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:24 pm

stahrgazer wrote:
InsomniaRed wrote:Good thing Aladdin was an American movie and not an Arabian one!


Yeah, but the story was a French translation of a middle eastern folktale.

Aladdin (Arabic: علاؔ Ų§Ł„ŲÆŁŠŁ†, Ź»Alāʼ ad-DÄ«n; literally meaning in English; "nobility of the faith") is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland (see sources and setting).[2]

Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 – February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of The Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights in English). His version of the tales appeared in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717 and exerted a huge influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world.

Cool, so if we come to the conclusion that Aladdin is racist or whatever, we can just blame the French.
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Juan_Bottom on Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:29 pm

patches70 wrote:The logic some use to make judgments upon very old Disney movies is an example of "Historian's Fallacy- occurs when one assumes that decision makers of the past viewed events from the same perspective and having the same information as those subsequently analyzing the decision."

Some are looking at this stuff through the prism of today's thinking and ignoring the actual times these movies were made. Not only do they make their own subjective judgments about the meanings, but also assume that everyone else should think the same way.


The haters need to relax.


You're right. It was ok to be a Nazi. Because it was the "in" thing to be at the time.
OR
We're on to something with the way we're thinking..... There's no such thing as the "Historian's Fallacy." The only fallacy is that we have no right to judge ignorant and backward behavior, regardless of the environment producing it.

stahrgazer wrote:I'd say it's about as racist as the movies you named from Disney. I mean, my gosh, they made the bad guy DARK.. just like, my gosh, Disney made the circus workers DARK.

Wonder how one explains Mickey Mouse (black mouse, but a good guy) in Disney terms, though...

They seemed like Black men to me... And it's the same film featuring Jim Crow. So even if you can get past the "Happy-Hearted Roustabouts," You still have to contend with Jim Crow.
I don't see a parallel between ignorant Black workers and bad black ants.
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Well, if you recall, the supposedly "abducted" people trespassed on Beast's land; it's not like he went to the city looking to abduct Belle. So wasn't it fair of Beast to hold them accountable for trespassing?

Of course he does, presumably... But not to abduct her for it. There's also the question of who's land it really was in title, because it seemed that no one from the area even knew a castle was there. I would assume there had to be a title somewhere, but who knows who held it? Prime forest real-estate like that wouldn't sit idle without someone stepping in to claim. I could see someone making a good argument that the Beast was actually a squatter.
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby patches70 on Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:45 pm

Juan_Bottom wrote:
You're right. It was ok to be a Nazi. Because it was the "in" thing to be at the time.
OR
We're on to something with the way we're thinking..... There's no such thing as the "Historian's Fallacy." The only fallacy is that we have no right to judge ignorant and backward behavior, regardless of the environment producing it.



List of logic fallacies you have made in the above statement-

-Fallacy of exclusive premises
-Straw Man
-Judgmental Language
-Chronological fallacy
-Reductio ad Hitlerum,
-Existential fallacy
-Cum hoc ergo propter hoc
-Retrospective determinism

And your whole thread is-
-Reductio ad absurdum

Deal with it.
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby The Bison King on Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:52 pm

You're right. It was ok to be a Nazi. Because it was the "in" thing to be at the time.
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We're on to something with the way we're thinking..... There's no such thing as the "Historian's Fallacy." The only fallacy is that we have no right to judge ignorant and backward behavior, regardless of the environment producing it.

You're being an idiot or a troll but I can't decide which. First off he films don't advocate racism. You're bending over-backwards to insert racist elements that don't inherently define the film as a whole. If anything it seems that you're inserting your own underlying insecurities about racism into the films (just sayin). Second off there IS such a thing as historical fallacy. If you made a film tomorrow and did your best to make it completely PC and family friendly the people of 2250 are probably going to find some issue with your attitudes. Maybe by then everyone will be a vegetarian or will walk on their hands. Third off Walt Disney was a Film maker and a Artist. It wasn't his job to make a guide on how to behave for little children he was trying to create art, and maybe you haven't noticed but art, quite often, becomes controversial. That's what makes it interesting, stories about the human condition are rarely ones with no strife in the face of adversity. Fourth off you are assuming that all animation is meant entirely for little children. While most of disney's films (more recently) are geared for children they were supposed to appeal to adults as well (like fantasia which was exclusively meant for adults) . Also maybe you didn't notice but children grow up into adults. Every experience is another step along that path. So it's futile and naive to pretend that you can or should trap your children in the bubble of innocence forever by showing them nothing but lame PBS cartoons about hugging and making friends with the Chinese kid in the wheel chair who actually turns out to be really cool ad just like us!

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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby patches70 on Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:00 pm

All of OP's fallacies
make him appear to be
a phallus.
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby oVo on Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:04 pm

Of course it's a troll... why do you even bother attempting
to insert some form of rational logic here?

If Disney produced had porn he would be guilty of the phallusy
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Juan_Bottom on Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:54 pm

patches70 wrote:
Juan_Bottom wrote:
You're right. It was ok to be a Nazi. Because it was the "in" thing to be at the time.
OR
We're on to something with the way we're thinking..... There's no such thing as the "Historian's Fallacy." The only fallacy is that we have no right to judge ignorant and backward behavior, regardless of the environment producing it.



List of logic fallacies you have made in the above statement-

-Fallacy of exclusive premises
-Straw Man
-Judgmental Language
-Chronological fallacy
-Reductio ad Hitlerum,
-Existential fallacy
-Cum hoc ergo propter hoc
-Retrospective determinism

And your whole thread is-
-Reductio ad absurdum

Deal with it.


I often find that, when people can't form an argument, or fail to see one they can use, they just say something like "that was ad hominem, lol @ you!" or some junk and walk away. I am completely correct when I say that we have every right to judge absurd and backwards behavior. To say that your argument justifies being a Nazi in the late 30s is not a fallacy. To draw such a parallel is obvious because Hitler was racist like Disney, and the comparison would carry the most shock value. Your list looks completely copy/paste, and isn't presented well or thought out well. Some of them don't fit here at all, like the argument ad Hitlerum. It's intellectual-sounding but intellectual-nonsense to anyone who understands what you're crying.

The Bison King wrote:Second off there IS such a thing as historical fallacy. If you made a film tomorrow and did your best to make it completely PC and family friendly the people of 2250 are probably going to find some issue with your attitudes.

Several of the films mentioned have been edited by Disney because they offended so many. That's an admission of guilt. This Includes Fantasia and Aladdin. I mentioned the Black workers from DUMBO because there was discussion a long time ago to add color to some of them them to mix up their ethnicity. Besides this, you take a movie like Song Of the South that has an almost idealistic and romantic look back on slavery, then yeah, that's inherently racist. The NAACP decried it as such. No black person wants to hear about how much fun it was being a slave. I'm sure they don't want to see some cartoon Crow playing the token uneducated black role either.

The Bison King wrote:Third off Walt Disney was a Film maker and a Artist. It wasn't his job to make a guide on how to behave for little children he was trying to create art, and maybe you haven't noticed but art, quite often, becomes controversial. That's what makes it interesting, stories about the human condition are rarely ones with no strife in the face of adversity.

:-s Yup, and good old Uncle Remus taught our children how it was awesome to be a slave. You could call it art, but that's not to say it's ok for children to hear.

The Bison King wrote:So it's futile and naive to pretend that you can or should trap your children in the bubble of innocence forever by showing them nothing but lame PBS cartoons about hugging and making friends with the Chinese kid in the wheel chair who actually turns out to be really cool ad just like us!


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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Juan_Bottom on Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:57 pm

patches70 wrote:All of OP's fallacies
make him appear to be
a phallus.


Well firstly if you get in trouble for this I'm not the one who reported you. Second of all, I don't mind you saying it because you don't even understand the argument that you made about fallacies. Words have meaning, and my mastery of 11th grade English has helped me understand that you don't know all the meanings of the ones you've used.
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Lootifer on Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:01 pm

The Bison King wrote:
Lootifer wrote:Only skimmed thread, but regardless of what Walt was or wasn't, Disney, as a maker of cartoons, is just pretty bad at what they do.

Nick/CN >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Disney

:-s So you're like what? 8 or 9? or do you just have no appreciation for film history?

No, i'm a cynic.

And cynics the world over (if they care enough) would tell you how very terrible Disney is from a creative standpoint. From their earliest dribble to the terrible modern Disney bullocks
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Postby The Bison King on Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:00 am

And cynics the world over (if they care enough) would tell you how very terrible Disney is from a creative standpoint.

So making the first full length animated film wasn't creative how? Cartoon Networks great but it stands on the shoulders of Giants.

Several of the films mentioned have been edited by Disney because they offended so many. That's an admission of guilt. This Includes Fantasia and Aladdin. I mentioned the Black workers from DUMBO because there was discussion a long time ago to add color to some of them them to mix up their ethnicity. Besides this, you take a movie like Song Of the South that has an almost idealistic and romantic look back on slavery, then yeah, that's inherently racist. The NAACP decried it as such. No black person wants to hear about how much fun it was being a slave. I'm sure they don't want to see some cartoon Crow playing the token uneducated black role either.


You do know that song of the south was a compilation of traditional African American stories and fables, right? Granted they were first collected and published by a white guy, Joel Chandler Harris but he was trying to do their heritage justice. Maybe he succeeded maybe he didn't I don't know. Perhaps he had good intentions but came at from a bit of a patronizing angle, it's all obscured by history. In his time he was probably very progressive. Thats the hole point,it's not so black and white. Time fades things out into shades of grey. Also I don't think the intention was to idealize slavery. Again you are injecting that into your argument.

So like, Pink Floyd's the Wall then?

No more like Watership Down.

either way I believe the differences in our opinions are irreconcilable.
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Aradhus on Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:05 pm

The Bison King wrote:
So like, Pink Floyd's the Wall then?

No more like Watership Down.



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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby LFAW on Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:08 pm

Army of GOD wrote:At least they're not trying to make our kids homosessuals like THAT DAMNED SPONGEBOB


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Postby Army of GOD on Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:17 pm

LFAW wrote:
Army of GOD wrote:At least they're not trying to make our kids homosessuals like THAT DAMNED SPONGEBOB


This made me laugh... so much


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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Juan_Bottom on Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:45 pm

The Bison King wrote:You do know that song of the south was a compilation of traditional African American stories and fables, right? Granted they were first collected and published by a white guy, Joel Chandler Harris but he was trying to do their heritage justice. Maybe he succeeded maybe he didn't I don't know. Perhaps he had good intentions but came at from a bit of a patronizing angle, it's all obscured by history.

I don't know about any of that stuff, because it's all beside the point. We're talking about what Disney did with it. I don't know if they butchered his work like they did with Alice in Wonderland or the Black Cauldron, I just know the end result of their effort.

The Bison King wrote:Thats the hole point,it's not so black and white. Time fades things out into shades of grey. Also I don't think the intention was to idealize slavery. Again you are injecting that into your argument.

Neither racism nor slavery has faded into any gray area. And it was not my argument originally, it was the NAACP's.

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I don't believe the photo needed any whore-ifying. It was horrifying enough seeing those young ladies exposing their fun-bags and belly buttons at a children's award show.
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Aradhus on Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:51 pm

Juan_Bottom wrote:
Nola_Lifer wrote:http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/girlsaloud.asp

I don't believe the photo needed any whore-ifying. It was horrifying enough seeing those young ladies exposing their fun-bags and belly buttons at a children's award show.


Those poor children. However will they cope witnessing such horror.
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Postby Chewie1 on Sat Mar 05, 2011 1:18 pm

Wow my six year old daughter recently for her birthday had a snow white dress and a belle dress (from me and her mummy) in light of all this sexism/womanism perhaps i should ban her from wearing it, yeah right..
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Juan_Bottom on Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:11 pm

I actually think that as a father it's a good thing to raise your girl(s) to think that they are princesses who deserve to be rescued.
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Postby Army of GOD on Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:11 am

Sorry, but after watching Mulan again I can't help but bump this shizzle. Mulan has to be the biggest pro-feminism film that came out ever. Obviously a lot of characters in it are sexist (you know, they only want to kill females who cross-dressed and fought in the army), but that's like saying everyone in Schindler's List is anti-Semetic because there were a few Nazis in it.


On a related note, the bathing scene in Mulan was pretty much the first time I discovered my sexuality when I was a kid. Is it weird that I still kinda get a boner?
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Army of GOD on Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:15 am

Also, the whole Stockholm Syndrome sub-topic in this thread is a complete load of stuff that comes from my buttocks and you guys are trying REALLY hard to dig up examples of sexism in more recent Disney films (I do agree that older films like Sleeping Beauty are pretty sexist, but Disney himself was a fucked up piece of shit).
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Postby Aradhus on Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:26 am

Army of GOD wrote:
On a related note, the bathing scene in Mulan was pretty much the first time I discovered my sexuality when I was a kid. Is it weird that I still kinda get a boner?


Naw dude, totally normal. It'd be weird if you masturbated. You didnt, right?
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Re: Disney is for the sexists/racist, Dreamworks is for chil

Postby Army of GOD on Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:37 am

Aradhus wrote:
Army of GOD wrote:
On a related note, the bathing scene in Mulan was pretty much the first time I discovered my sexuality when I was a kid. Is it weird that I still kinda get a boner?


Naw dude, totally normal. It'd be weird if you masturbated. You didnt, right?


I hope not.
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