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Posted by Dollywood Hillery on 09/26/47 11:52
I thought about the "Peter Pan" incorrectness last time I watched it. Could
"What made the red man red?" be more incorrect?
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Dollywood Hillery
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"jayembee" <jayembeenospam@snurcher.com> wrote in message
news:Xns97FB7149EA6Fjayembeesnurchercom@140.99.99.130...
> "ronald felder" <ronfelder_nospam@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>> It's not going to happen. Too politically incorrect for this
>>> day and age.
>>
>> They show Gone With the Wind, why not Song of the South? You
>> could say the former is just as incorrect as the latter.
>
> Different studios, different priorities. Political Correctness isn't
> the only criterion at play. Warner Bros. (which owns GONE WITH THE
> WIND) doesn't have the obsession of a squeaky-clean, everybody's friend
> image that Disney has. Warner is willing to invite controversy,
> while Disney is not.
>
> There's also the fact that GONE WITH THE WIND is the highest-grossing
> movie ever made (inflation adjusted). SONG OF THE SOUTH isn't even
> close.
>
> Anyway, more to the point, I consider the "Tiger Lily" sequence in
> PETER PAN to be as Politically Incorrect as anything in SONG OF THE
> SOUTH, and Disney has no qualms about releasing PETER PAN. But then,
> the Native American anti-defamation crowd isn't as loud or as vocal
> as the African-American one.
>
> -- jayembee
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