DISNEY’S NEW STREAMING service has added a disclaimer to Dumbo, Peter Pan and other classics because they depict racist stereotypes.
Companies have been grappling for years with how to address stereotypes that were in TV shows and movies decades ago but look jarring today. Streaming brings the problem to the fore. On personal computers, the disclaimer appears as part of the text description of shows and movies underneath the video player.
Disney’s disclaimer is a good way to begin a discussion about the larger issue of racism that is embedded in our cultural history, said Gayle Wald, American studies chairwoman at George Washington University. Universal Pictures’ teen comedy Sixteen Candles has long been decried for stereotyping Asians with its Long Duk Dong character.
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