This nonsense is why we’ll never see “Song of the South” freed from Disney’s vaults. Or, worse yet, they’ll go back and “remaster” it. It was locked up before I got a chance to see it.
In order to reclaim bits of my childhood I couldn’t quite remember, I purchased all the Astro Boy manga released and translated by Dark Horse. At the front of each volume is a well-written and respectful disclaimer regarding themes that may be offensive to some for racial reasons, but everything was kept intact. I couldn’t have been more grateful. It gave the series a historical depth and insight that would have been missing if the themes had been sanitized. And there were even a few anti- white and/ or American, which wouldn’t have been out of place just after WWII.
Just think of all the wartime cartoons you don’t see anymore...but I suppose that’s better than having them mangled by the PC Police.
“Just think of all the wartime cartoons you don’t see anymore”
Popeye fighting the Japanese and Superman fighting the Germans (while eating spinach in the face of rationed meat). Never to be seen again, along with all the Westerns that showed that individuals could live using their own morals without a strong Central Government.
And all the wartime stuff Bernays and the proto-Disney cartoonists put out.
Down the memory hole.
And Song of the South? You are correct, never. Elmer Fudd? Speedy Gonzales? Probably even Mr Magoo!