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Originally Posted by issybird
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.
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Yes, I agree and I do NOT want Disney, or any other company, (especially of late!!!) making those decisions for me or mine. I hated, hated "Airplane version" movies; Hated what PBS did with UK TV (GOD FORBID adults should--gasp!!!--see a naked butt or boobs), and the like. thanks, but if I'm a kid-owning adult, I will decide, not them and if that means I have to watch it first, so what? Isn't that part of the job of parenting? It's not bad enough taht the boob tube, so to speak--is the electronic babysitter (that and now, smartphones), but we're going to also off-ramp the suitability of shows and movies for our kids to them? NO THANKS.
Hitch