Maryam Amir – Disney and Racism

Maryam Amir
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The transcript describes a Disney villain who sounds like a Disney villain to the audience. The villain's voice is that of a black cartoon character, and his appearance is described as racist, anti-immigrant, and agenda-setting. The villain's actions include drinking alcohol, killing people, and even causing destruction in Hollywood.
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This guy is on my screen or is

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speaking, I am having anxiety.

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He literally sounds and acts like a Disney

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movie villain.

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Yes, well, the reason why this Arab man

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sounds like a Disney villain to you is

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because for generations, Disney has spent billions of

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dollars casting white actors to play the voices

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of black cartoon characters and those of people

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of color in order to shape the way

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people across the world, because of the exportation

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of Western imperial hegemony, receive black communities and

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people of color, including the way that we

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perceive our own selves.

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For example, Aladdin, the cartoon was incredibly racist.

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The villain's voice was Jonathan Freeman.

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Lady and the Tramp, the Siamese twins was

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played by Peggy Lee.

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And there were so many racist tropes towards

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the Asian community in their characters seen all

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throughout Hollywood.

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For example, The Simpsons, Carlton Carson is played

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by Hank Azaria, and his voice is that

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of Apoos as well.

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Peter Pan, Candy Candido is the one who

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played the father of Tiger Lily.

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That movie is filled with incredibly disgusting and

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racist caricatures of the Native American community.

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And can be said of Tasia or the

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Jungle Book or so many other classic Disney

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movies.

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He was also asked by the United States

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government to push propaganda around the world.

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Saludos Amigos and the Tres Caballeros were films

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which were supposed to build trust between the

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United States and South America, but were actually

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filled with stereotypes about South America.

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They also produced film that was anti-German

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and anti-Japanese.

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Generations of that type of propaganda has absolutely

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worked because look at Palestine.

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We are all witnessing babies being beheaded by

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Israel.

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People being melted alive in hospitals while they

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are already injured from another bombing at a

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mosque or a school or a UN refugee

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center.

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Living in little tents with no food, no

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water, no supplies.

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They are being butchered.

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Yet with decades of propaganda like this, something

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as benign as a cartoon, someone like me

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is seen as a threat, is seen as

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oppressed, is seen as violent.

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And someone like you is seen as needing

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saving or the savior.

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