Disney's Peter Pan, Aristocats get racism advisories

LOS ANGELES: Classic Disney animated movies Peter Pan, The Aristocrats and Dumbo have been given content advisory notices warning viewers that they contain outdated or stereotyped depictions of people of color.

The advisories, the latest example of Hollywood's reckoning with racism, come in the form of a short graphic on the Disney+ streaming service as some of the older films are selected for viewing."This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures," the on screen advice reads.

"These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together," it adds.The movie studio said that 1953 film Peter Pan refers to Native people as redskins and that the dancing in headdresses by Peter and the Lost Boys is a"form of mockery and appropriation of Native peoples' culture and imagery".

Other movies dating back to the 1950s 1960s and 1970s with the new warning include Lady and the Tramp, Swiss Family Robinson, and The Jungle Book. Earlier this year, amid massive nationwide protests over police brutality and racial injustice, the Civil War era film Gone With the Wind was briefly pulled from the HBO Max streaming service.

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