Disney+ adds a disclaimer to Peter Pan, Dumbo for “negative depictions” of race

Peter Pan There’s a good amount of beloved vintage Disney content that peddled anti-Black and anti-Indigenous ideology, often with a jaunty tune. Peter Pan is especially guilty of this with its depiction of Tiger Lily, as is Dumbo, which based the crows and minstrel imagery that boiled Black people down to stereotypes.

All are currently available on Disney+, but the streamer has no plans to follow the examples of their competition and remove the content (which, in the grand scheme of things, only benefits those who made the content in the first place). Instead, the nearly one-year-old platform has opted to add an updated disclaimer ahead of their controversial titles, according to The Hollywood Reporter .

Now, when users stream either of these and similarly scrutinized films, they will be met with a message that says, “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures.” If only there was a single word they could use here that would mean “the mistreatment of people based on their culture.” Ah well. To be clear, Disney+ has been implementing content warnings on some of its old films since launch. This updated language, however, comes at the heels of consultations with […]

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