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