This Week In Stupidity #3: Disney Is Racist! Always!
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of blogs about feminism, racial issues, etc, in part because usually they’re interesting and in part because they are occasionally very stupid. I got this little gem linked to from one such blog. Now, I may be biased since I was without the internet or newspapers for the last week, but I’d have to say that this is the dumbest thing I’ve seen in the last seven days:
The Nine Most Racist Disney Characters. Specifically, one item on the list.
#8.Sebastian from The Little Mermaid
In this 1989 film, a Jamaican-sounding crab teaches Ariel that life is better “Under the Sea,” because underwater you don’t have to get a job.
Maybe I’m just a crazy cracker, but I’m having a hard time seeing the racism here. You find me someone that honestly prefers working to not working and I’ll get you a pope that loves condoms and evolution. Unless this guy honestly thinks that Disney decided to hire a voice actor who could pull off a Jamaican accent specifically for that musical number.
I’m not going to argue that cartoons haven’t been racist: some of the other items on that list make me want to apply my head to my desk, and then there’s things like Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs. But that doesn’t make nitpicks like this any less funny.
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Uh, popes not fond of evolution? What? The pope does believe in evolution. 0.o Theological evolution, granted, but that’s still evolution.
Maybe I’m just dense, but I watched the Little Mermaid a million times as a child and never once did I think Sebastian was Jamaican…just fussy. :P
Jamaican me crazy! But the more I think about it, Sebastian sounds more like the Chocolate Rain guy than anything else.
Crap. Now it’s in my head again.
When I think of articles like this, where they say things like that… it makes me wonder what else they could be doing with their time… like I dunno getting a freaking life?
I wonder who’s job it is to sit around and find little stupid things like that in movies and turn them into a big issue…. wow…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Cracked a comedy site/magazine? I wouldn’t take this too seriously if I were you, lest you become one of those people who gets angry at The Onion.
FUCKING ONION ARRGHHH!!!!
Also calling Disney racist is like calling Fox News stupid. The only reply to that article should be an Orly owl.
Sophita: You’re right, I worded that poorly. I meant the idea that men had evolved from other creatures rather than being made by God. Somehow I don’t see the pope dismissing the idea of creationism entirely. :p
Del: It is, but if I didn’t see a lot of comparable articles I wouldn’t think he was being serious. If I ever become the kind to get angry at The Onion, however, I want you to slap me upside the head and/or send me off to the funny farm.