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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What I find silly are the warnings on older programs that they may not be suitable. Here's one from Disney that even is displayed for some episodes of The Muppet Show. I've watches some of these shows/movies and they've never done me any harm. Kids really do not need to live in a sterilized environment. They need to be exposed to things like this.
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I'm finding an inconsistency here. You yourself won't read books you consider racist or anti-Semitic (although misogynistic doesn't seem to pose an issue), but you think it's good for children? Kids will believe what they see, and worse, kids who belong to marginalized groups may internalize the bias presented. Perhaps they didn't do you any harm as a white male? Also, the privileged have to pick up their biases somewhere.
I'm opposed to not making content available but I think adults in their lives should vet kids' content and not a nanny corporation. Because, cynically speaking, the nanny corporation is trying to have it both ways: they don't approve, but they're also willing to make money from it. Which if it was wrong then, is wrong now. They should skip the holier than thou warning, because self-evidently, they're not.
And... Disney did pull
Song of the South. It's arguable that they need to drop other egregious films; I could easily make a case for
Peter Pan just as one example. We're not talking great film-making art; it's no
Birth of a Nation. Or even
Snow White.