The bonfire of DEI cobblers continues. Disney is reportedly removing its patronising trigger warnings from many of the films on its streaming service, presumably having finally realised that audiences do not like being talked down to, and that Peter Pan, Dumbo and The Aristocats are not actually engines of racist radicalisation, as its more insufferable execs once believed.
In 2020, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Disney decided its contribution to the fight against ‘systemic racism’ would be prissily condemning its own films for ‘stereotypes’. Everyone from the Native Americans in Peter Pan to the Jazz-singing King Louie in The Jungle Book led to trigger warnings, warning parents and children about this supposedly corrupting content. ‘These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now’, read a now-deleted
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