re: Disney’s Splash Mountain Takes Final Lap After Controversial Past( racist)

Walt is turning over in his grave...

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I hadn’t seen the movie or read the books In probably 35 years so I had to look it up on Wiki. Apparently the Disney folks were concerned even upon its 1946 release that the film may be perceived as racist, yet they made it a ride despite the apprehension. For those interested, this line from Wiki points out what people likely find objectionable:

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You are such a pussy. Go frick yourself. You liberals have lost your fricking minds

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The amount of cross dressers and trannies in Disney is borderline inappropriate for children. The staff there is becoming filled with the entitled millenials who want to wield what little power they have in Disney. Covid made it much worse.

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I walked out of Rockin Rollercoaster last year because the blue haired Disney worker inside the ride threatened to kick me out because my mask had slipped beneath my nose 3 times. You are absolutely right, they LIVE to wield their “power”, especially if they are able to discern that you aren’t a sniveling liberal, which makes me a pretty easy mark.

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There were some pretty negative stereotypes in the original movie from what I remember.

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Eh, not sure I'd agree with that but can see where today's society may try to draw that inference.

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Was much of that even incorporated into the ride?

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None of it. Uncle Remus wasn't even depicted in the ride at all, just the animated characters...a fox, a rabbit, and a bear, among other animal characters. The only other reference from the film was the Zippedeedoodah song from the film

Here is a youtube video of the entire ride. Most of it is just depictions from the Uncle Remus fairy tale stories. It's like people have no idea the film is based off a book of children's fairytales published in the 1880s. It's no different really than Mark Twain books being "cancelled" because they accurately portray a period of time and dialect much different than present day. But this ride doesn't even do that like the books did.

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...in other news Disney had no comment on the ride being universally known as Flash Mountain by over served teens and young adults.

Before this story broke, you could random survey 10,000 frequent Disney-goers and ask them the question “Is there any ride or attraction you offends a you and one you want shut down?”. I bet you wouldn’t have ten people that said Splash Mountain. But then again…. The very very small minority always wins out in these situations.

Controversial to easily offended