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The Walt Disney Company holds monthly meetings.
<p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The Walt Disney Company holds monthly meetings with advocates from women and minority groups who comb through hundreds of hours of Disney-streamed content looking for potentially offensive material to flag.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>According to , 웹소설 공모전 the monthly zoom meetings are held between Disney officials and a so-called ‘third-party advisory council.'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The council includes representatives from the African American Film Critics Association; CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment); Define American; the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media; Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD); Hollywood, Health and Society; IllumiNative; National Association of Latino Independent Producers; RespectAbility; The Science & Entertainment Exchange; and Tanenbaum.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Disney asks representatives of the organizations to watch content that the company has acquired on its streaming service to check for material that may be deemed culturally insensitive, according to THR. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>It’s the latest in a move toward sanitizing cultural staples that are now seen by some to be offensive: The company that looks after Dr.
Seuss’s books said it would stop publishing six of them that they said were racially problematic. And Hasbro said it would stop branding its line of potato toys as ‘Mr. Potato Head’ to make room for same-sex and single-parent variations. </p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>In relation to The Aristocats – a film about a group of musical felines – Disney warns viewers about a scene where one of the cats, who is voiced by a white actor, chants out stereotypical Chinese ‘words’ while playing the piano with chopsticks</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>The Jungle Book, a 1967 adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s novel, has also been highlighted, namely for its depiction of King Louie, which has been accused of perpetuating a stereotype of African Americans</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>According to Disney, the Robinson family in Swiss Family Robinson are portrayed as ‘a stereotypical foreign menace’ while others in the film appear in ‘yellow face’ or ‘brown face’ that ‘reinforce their barbarism.'</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Peter Pan viewers are warned that Native Americans Indians are referred to as ‘redskins'</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Disney is advised by an outside, third-party council made up of groups that advocate on behalf of women and minorities to comb through content and 웹소설 공모전 decide which films or episodes need a disclaimer like the one above</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>At Disney, since its streaming service debuted in late 2019, it’s added a disclaimer to several of its animated classics, including Dumbo, Peter Pan, and other hits because they depict racist stereotypes, underscoring a challenge media companies face when they resurrect older movies in modern times.</p><div><div data-track-module=”am-related_carousel^related_carousel” data-track-selector=”.rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])” data-dm-rotator-rotate=”false” data-track-pos=”static” data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=”” data-dm-rotator-auto-init=”” id=”p-28″ class=”related-carousel with-fb-or-tw news half” data-dm-rotator-active-class=”active” data-dm-rotator-page-count=”1.0″ data-dm-social-article-auto-init=”” data-dm-rotator-page-size=”1″> <div class=”rotator bdrcc”> <div class=”rotator-title”> <h2>RELATED ARTICLES</h2> <ul class=”rotator-pages link-xocc”> <li class=”rotator-prev”>Previous
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</div></div> </div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Companies have been grappling for years with how to address stereotypes that were in TV shows and movies decades ago but look jarring today. Streaming brings the problem to the fore.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Disney added a disclaimer to the animated hit Aristocats because the main character is a cat who is ‘depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples with exaggerated stereotypical traits such as slanted eyes and 웹소설 공모전 buck teeth.'</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>An episode of the Muppets in which Johnny Cash (center) sings along with Miss Piggy with the Confederate flag in the background has also been cited as problematic </p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Divisive: Disney+ banned the controversial 1946 film Song Of The South after it was deemed racist</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Disney+ has a library of more than 500 movies and 7,500 episodes of shows that it streams to its subscribers.
The Walt Disney Company’s strategy is to appeal to a broad audience by flagging potentially insensitive content</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The cat also ‘sings in poorly accented English voiced by a white actor and plays the piano with chopsticks.'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>In Dumbo, from 1941, 웹소설 공모전 crows that help Dumbo learn to fly are depicted with exaggerated black stereotypical voices.</p><div class=”art-ins mol-factbox tvshowbiz floatRHS” data-version=”2″ id=”mol-a104a000-7d2c-11eb-ae09-69c1be3ca651″ website meets with groups to decide which content gets disclaimer
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