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Accusations of antisemitism and racism
Disney was long rumored to be antisemitic during his lifetime, and such
rumors persisted after his death. Animator Art Babbitt claimed that Disney
and his lawyer, Gunther Lessing, attended meetings of the German American
Bund, a pro-Nazi organization, in the late 1930s.[112] In 1938 he welcomed
German filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl to Hollywood to
promote her film Olympia.[113] Even after news of Kristallnacht broke,
Disney did not cancel his invitation to Riefenstahl.[114][115][116]
Animator and director David Swift, who was Jewish, told a biographer that
when he informed Disney that he was leaving to take a job at Columbia
Pictures in 1941, Disney responded — in a feigned Yiddish accent — "Okay,
Davy boy, off you go to work for those Jews. It's where you belong, with
those Jews."[117] Swift returned to Disney Studios in 1945, however, and
later said that he "owed everything" to Disney. When he left the studio a
second time in the early 1950s, Disney reportedly told him, "...there is
still a candle burning in the window if you ever want to come back."[118]
In 2006 Disney biographer Neal Gabler, the first writer to gain unrestricted
access to the Disney archives, concluded that available evidence did not
support accusations of antisemitism. In a CBS interview Gabler summarized
his findings:
“ That's one of the questions everybody asks me... My answer to that is,
not in the conventional sense that we think of someone as being an
antisemite. But he got the reputation because, in the 1940s, he got himself
allied with a group called the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation
of American Ideals, which was an anti-Communist and antisemitic organization
. And though Walt himself, in my estimation, was not antisemitic,
nevertheless, he willingly allied himself with people who were antisemitic,
and that reputation stuck. He was never really able to expunge it throughout
his life.[119] ”
Disney eventually distanced himself from the Motion Picture Alliance in the
1950s.[120] Gabler asserts that Riefenstahl's invitation was suggested to
Disney by Jay Stowitts, and although Disney knew who Riefenstahl was, he
didn't know exactly what she represented in terms of politics.[121] He also
claims that Babbitt's story is highly unlikely, because Disney had very
little time for his family and much less for political meetings, and he had
no particular political leanings during the 1930s.[122]
The Walt Disney Family Museum acknowledges that Disney did have "difficult
relationships" with some Jewish individuals, including David Hilberman and
Art Babbitt; and that ethnic stereotypes common to films of the 1930s were
included in some early cartoons, such as Three Little Pigs (in which the Big
Bad Wolf comes to the door dressed as a Jewish peddler) and The Opry House
(in which Mickey Mouse is dressed and dances as a Hasidic Jew); but both
Gabler and the museum have pointed out that he befriended many Jewish
schoolmates, donated to several Jewish charities (The Hebrew Orphan Asylum,
Yeshiva College, Jewish Home for the Aged, and The American League for a
Free Palestine), and was named "1955 Man of the Year" by the B'nai B'rith
chapter in Beverly Hills.[117][123] According to Gabler, none of Disney's
employees — including Babbitt, who disliked Disney intensely — ever
accused him of making antisemitic slurs or taunts.[118]
Disney was also rumored to be racist. The rumor stems from several Disney
cartoons of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s that displayed racial stereotyping and
racially insensitive material. Examples include Mickey's Mellerdrammer, in
which Mickey Mouse dresses in blackface; the "black" bird in the short Who
Killed Cock Robbin; Sunflower, the half donkey/half black centaurette with a
watermelon in Fantasia; the feature film Song of the South; the Indians in
Peter Pan; and the crows in Dumbo (although the case has been made that the
crows were sympathetic to Dumbo, because they knew what it was like to be
ostracized).[124]
That said, "Walt Disney was no racist," Gabler wrote. "He never, either
publicly or privately, made disparaging remarks about blacks or asserted
white superiority. Like most white Americans of his generation, however, he
was racially insensitive." Gabler sites examples such as during a story
meeting on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs he referred to the scene in which
the dwarfs pile on top of each other as a "nigger pile", and while casting
Song of the South he used the term pickaninny.[125] Despite the occasional
slurs, Disney hired employees of all races, religions and nationalities, and
campaigned to give African-American actor James Baskett an Honorary Academy
Award for his characterization of Uncle Remus in Song of the South .
Baskett died shortly after receiving the award, for which his widow wrote
Disney thankfully, saying he had been a "friend in deed and [we] certainly
have been in need."[126] | o**********e
发帖数: 18403 | 2 That's ancient history (咱们就不翻旧账啦). Disney is a great company for
children. But if it doesn't stop race-baiting the Chinese for cheap laughs,
it will be sued, boycotted, bankrupted.
Great pity. | d**********i
发帖数: 4877 | 3 同时他是反犹的，非常反，以至于犹太人掌握ABC后把它污名化。
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: Accusations of antisemitism and racism
: Disney was long rumored to be antisemitic during his lifetime, and such
: rumors persisted after his death. Animator Art Babbitt claimed that Disney
: and his lawyer, Gunther Lessing, attended meetings of the German American
: Bund, a pro-Nazi organization, in the late 1930s.[112] In 1938 he welcomed
: German filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl to Hollywood to
: promote her film Olympia.[113] Even after news of Kristallnacht broke,
: Disney did not cancel his invitation to Riefenstahl.[114][115][116]
: Animator and director David Swift, who was Jewish, told a biographer that
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发帖数: 23482 | 4 pretty much all white guys at that time are racist. it does not help your
argument of kj case. |
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