Who Was Walt Disney? - a podcast by Yasmin Abdul Razak, Elena Tan
from 2020-08-28T10:00
A sexist, racist and anti-Semite? These are some pretty serious allegations! We figure out what kind of person Disney was through discussing a rejection letter to a female animator, horrible Jewish caricature in 3 Little Pigs and portrayal of black actors in Disney movies when he was still alive.
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Sources:
Meryl Streep slams Walt Disney as a racist, sexist and more, Entertainment.ie
Fact-Checking the Age-Old Rumors of Walt Disney’s Dark Side, Vulture
Economic antisemitism, Wikipedia
Leni Riefenstahl, Wikipedia
Kristallnacht, Wikipedia
Disney's rejection letter to female artist from 1938 shows what a big old bunch of sexists they were, Digital Spy
The Song of the South (Racial Discrimination), Youtube
Are The Crows In Dumbo Really That Racist?, Lifehacker
The Racist History of Peter Pan’s Indian Tribe, Smithsonian
Peter Pan Is the Boy Who Never Stopped Being Racist, Fatherly
Was Walt Disney racist and/or sexist? If so, why?, Quora
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