Conservatives have been bitching about Disney being too "woke" for like 30 years. They always threaten to boycott over shit but never actually do. When Aladdin dropped, they genuinely went "how dare you do a Disney princess that isn't white" and rode that train for 2 decades, whining and still buying the merch.
What's more, "Aladdin" has been hailed as politically correct: Its heroes are not white
But for many Arab Americans and Muslims, the film is not innocent, funny or particularly triumphant. Many of its characters are portrayed as grotesque, with huge noses and sinister eyes. And they are violent, willing to chop off the hand of a woman who steals an apple for a hungry child.
That's WaPo in 1993
interesting article https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1993/01/10/angry-over-aladdin/46f2aacd-444b-4a81-9aa7-7c43cc84d65b/
It seems there was more of a stir about the racism and orientalism once the film came out. Usually how it goes, conservatives are mad about a thing, it comes out and conforms more or less to their views and they like it or simmer down, and radlibs come to complain for decent reasons and no one cares cause the money is made
edit: holy shit Casey Kasem is Lebanese? I never knew that somehow
Conservatives have been bitching about Disney being too "woke" for like 30 years. They always threaten to boycott over shit but never actually do. When Aladdin dropped, they genuinely went "how dare you do a Disney princess that isn't white" and rode that train for 2 decades, whining and still buying the merch.
In the late 90s evangelicals attempted to boycott Disney for granting some benefits to same-sex partners of employees.
And they still bought the merch.
no wonder they wanted to bomb Agrabah
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We don't hate Aladdin for being brown. We hate him for being a Christ-hating Muslim.
There's a difference.
That's WaPo in 1993 interesting article https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1993/01/10/angry-over-aladdin/46f2aacd-444b-4a81-9aa7-7c43cc84d65b/
It seems there was more of a stir about the racism and orientalism once the film came out. Usually how it goes, conservatives are mad about a thing, it comes out and conforms more or less to their views and they like it or simmer down, and radlibs come to complain for decent reasons and no one cares cause the money is made
edit: holy shit Casey Kasem is Lebanese? I never knew that somehow
Pretty much.
For fuck's sake, just three years prior the Disney princess was a god damned fish, and they didn't whine about that.
But that fish was white, so it was fine.
whitefish sure but try that with a yellow bass or a black moor goldfish
Last year they were crying that the fish princess was voiced by a black woman instead of a white woman like the REAL fish princess was