Set in Africa yet almost all of the characters are voiced by white actors. One of the only black characters in the whole film is Mufasa, and guess what happens to him?
Must be a light-furred black.
Da fuq level of craziness does this shit reach to? Mufasa is a fucking cartoon character for chrissake.
My three-year-old son saw "Aladdin" at a friend's house and came home in tears. "It was Euro-colonialist propaganda that utterly trivialized and finally erased the lived experience of actual Arabs," he cried. He was right, but I had to scold him sharply for failing to notice the troubling and blatantly speciesist ways that the film treats its animal characters. And of course this is all to say nothing of the Genie, a person of color who is caged in a lamp and forced to serve Aladdin as a literal slave. Euro-colonialist, indeed.
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Must be a light-furred black.
Da fuq level of craziness does this shit reach to? Mufasa is a fucking cartoon character for chrissake.
I liked that one
Seriously.