![]() ![]() Shannon McHugh is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Every grown-up in the room realizes that Trader Sam is not a. Trader Sam is out because he might offend certain people. What if, finally, the company were to give those words the power they deserve? Disney is in the process of taking the woke scalpel to the Jungle Cruise. In 1955, on that first Disneyland opening day, Walt Disney declared: To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Apat 4:57 PM An op-ed in The slamming Disney’s wokeness has set Twitter ablaze with Patricia Arquette, James Gunn, Patton Oswalt and many others weighing in to defend the. Realistically, I think the best we can hope for is that Disney continues to cautiously adapt its ersatz reality to be palatable to as many market demographics as possible.Īnd yet I cannot help but hope for better. I, like many others, wish the company were so aggressively political. It’s about an ongoing mission to preserve a white-centered vision of society by illegitimately laying claim to America’s most popular spaces of entertainment and idealism - even as not only the so-called liberal media, but also the most popular Disney fan sites, promote these changes. A newborn cotton-top tamarin clutches to the back of one of its parents at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Apat 4:25 PM 4 min read A Christian and conservative Republican Disney fan says changes to Splash Mountain, Jungle Cruise and Pirates of the Caribbean rides make him feel. Of course, this brawl with Disney isn’t actually about rides. Disney welcomes 2 baby cotton-top tamarin monkeys. Guests arriving at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom pass beneath a plaque inviting them to “enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.” The spirit has never been to stand still. The move drew pushback, and one outraged fan wrote an opinion piece in the Orlando Sentinel blasting the decision, which he chalked up to 'wokeness.' But responses like these miss a crucial element of Disney magic: It's meant to be accessible to everyone, not just you. Splash Mountain only opened in 1989, when it was constructed from the flotsam of the mostly-forgotten America Sings. What these naysayers imagine themselves to be preserving never existed at all. In short, there is no parks “canon” under fire. Disney’s not canceling I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy all six Disney resorts across the globe. This is also just the way of art: when Shakespeare moved Romeo and Juliet from the Middle East to fair Verona, nobody accused him of being political. A guest writer says Walt Disney would have viewed changes at the park as progress, not wokeness. When Disney’s 1940 Fantasia was released to video in 1991, editors quietly expunged horrifyingly racist images of two Black characters, including a “pickaninny centaurette.” Disney scholar John Culhane sagely observed that these depictions were never the point, and that retaining them would have been the real distraction from the work. Seuss, stewards of intellectual property have long made changes to maintain relevance. ![]()
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