You forgot that one small part in the first musical scene of All Dogs Go To Heaven where Itchy and Charlie were singing. Itchy says "...and even, a bit of *Siam*" referring to Siamese, depicted with those same buckteeth and slanted eyes.
Mr. King Kong: "MR MOJO RISING" .... A phrase repeated over & over in the song LA WOMAN by the DOORS, and written by Jim Morrison. Is an anagram of Jim Morrison's name [[try it, all the letters are represented here] [created by Jim Morrison himself]]] and yet this isn't offensive either.
Even nowadays the neighboring countries of Thailand such as Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia still didnt come up with the word “Thailand”. I mean if you’re visiting Lao you’ll find 90% of their population still call us “Siam” rather than “Thai”.
Well the animators and Disney didn't know the that either because they're making fun of Japanese people not Thai people. U should change watchmojo to Americans
@@kaijuslayer3334 Age does not stop it from being problematic. People still watch these movies and American culture still takes impacts from them. And it's not just a product of the times. There were people in the past who understood why racism is wrong, and there are people in the present who don't think racism is wrong. It's not a matter of time, it's a matter of education and awareness. The lack of education and awareness will always be a problem because kids aren't born with all of that. Saying that these movies are a product of their time is fair, but it doesn't excuse or devalue the problematic nature of their content.
@@calebk9111 What are you gonna do about it? There’s nothing to do, time has passed and there’s not much of a problem to fix now. If you intend to “fix it” by removing it from view, I politely disagree that will do any good
@Russell Jordan it was pretty noticeable and you should get pissed off because you cant forget something that was so crucial. legit most of american history is being racist
Nevaeh Cassidy I know! Tiger Lily is so beautiful & a Princess. Peter likes her & Wendy is jealous of her! That's hardly a negative light being shed. I think they are confusing stereotypes with racism! Jim Crow is by far the most cringe worthy to me. That was a hideous & unfair law. Obviously anything slavery referenced is racist. Racism is defined as one race thinking they are superior to another... I don't see that in Peter Pan.
@@thegrassyboy6163 Maybe the "when they cut off your hand" refferance in the opening scene... Too much and uneccesary for a kid's cartoon! But in other languages this prhase was not translated ,the lyrics were totaly different thank God! So I grew up adoring this movie,and not having those "American things" in my mind!
The Aristocats and Lady and the Tramp was the first time I saw siamese cats as a kid. They looked so different and cute, I wanted a siamese cat! We had two siamese cats growing up and unfortunately passed away, I m looking to find a new Siam baby, they are my most favorite breed. Maybe in US siamese cats are common house pet, but in South Europe they were not, so not easy to just see one around.
@Anastasia's Secret what an incredibly sad thing to say but actually believe? Wow. One day I hope you want to build bridges of coexistence. When you’re a hammer, all you see is nails, I’m not sure you’ll be able to understand the point. If you can’t get outside of your own very short sighted version of the hate you’ve been conditioned into at least don’t toss around your hate to people who don’t care what people think of them & hopefully don’t see everyone as such separate individuals we’re literally all just humans. Also EVERYONE at times of course are the butt of a joke here & there, lighten up, it build character.
What people find hard to follow in stereotypes are usually correct in the worst of our culture. We hate to admit it. In Ireland here now, when many are in the pub before dinner. Its 11am. After dinner they go back.
As an Asian, I take great offense to "the man" telling me what is racist and what what I should be offended by. Caricature or stereotype maybe, but I would hate for those characters to be changed or erased. I get a kick out of them. And you know what, it really does remind me of some of my relatives. So hey, unless you want to end up in a dull grey, monotone world, where people are afraid to jive talk, or have an accent, or you know, BE different, how about we all cool it with the recreational outrage and enjoy our differences. Even if that means having a bit of fun with it.
It was all about the stereotype jokes when during my childhood and I'm very sure that Asians made fun of American stereotype culture at least few times in their life which I wouldn't might seeing just to make more jokes on both stereotypes.🤣
@@night-x6793 I agree. I always loved white people jokes from Fresh Prince and especially Dave Chappelle. Dave is a hero. Much of his comedy is racial, but it's all hilarious, and brings people from every culture together. Real racism today is done by drawing unspoken lines between creeds, colors, and classes and then telling each group the other is to blame.
@@ElectricIguana I'm still confuse what is racist means when there is only one species of human left still existing on the planet when the others basically died 1,000's of years ago where I question why or how this happened?🤷
I find that most people that complain about The Aristocats have never actually seen it. Nearly every character in the film is a stereotype, from the hillbilly dogs to the Siamese cat. The black cat trumpet player, the hippie beatnick cat, even the main two characters. Duchess is rich and spoiled whereas O'Malley is a homeless alley cat. The whole movie is about culture clashes. But of course, people don't pay attention to things like plot or themes anymore.
Wait, so a black man voicing King Louie would be racist. A white man voicing King Louie, wouldn't be racist. If this sort of thinking isn't racist, I don't know what is.
It’s because jazz culture was popular among black ppl and they had accents/slang that they tried to copy, it the same as doing an Italian,Asian,or any stereotypical accent.
Gotta get rid of the good with the bad. This is current year, dontcha know! Scat Cat gets flushed with everything else that could maybe, possibly, potentially get some sensitive soul's panties in a bunch.
Molino Eric it sounds messed up but u can say the same thing saying that a black man should be excluded by a role because of his race (i get ur point it’s a tricky one)
@@marcofriio32 I'd like to point out that King Louis is not voiced by a black man. He's voiced by a white jazz musician named Louis Prima. Does that make the character more racist or less?
Yeah just yeah just because the voice actors talk with slang doesn't mean it's racest that's way of Disney putting in characters without putting a stereotype on what type of character it is or they would have just made him people and then you could have called them all Races
@@SailorBarsoom Yes, but she was portayed beautifully because she is a girl. Like Wendy. The adults in the tribe were kind of ugly but so were the pirates or any other of the adults, for that matter.
@@vgbcp3rs0na41 oh absolutely, I despise racism. But you can't just remove it and pretend it never happened. those who forget the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. We need to see it. We need to see it a million times.
The thing is, they are, even if they’re superficially positive. For example, the stereotype that Asians are smarter than other races is an overgeneralization applied in a manner such that Asian students are put under more pressure than other students.
I hope they realize that they're called "Siamese" cats because Siam was a previous name for Thailand and not Japan. For talking about racism these people seem to generalize a lot
You do realize Siam was conquered by the Japanese and basically puppeted by them during the Second World War resulting in a japanese-ification of much of Thai society at that time. Both japanese cultures and customs along with fascism were forced on the Thai people. While I do believe maybe watch mojo got this wrong by not explaining the obvious origins of Siam, I don’t think explaining the Japanese connection was wrong here either. “the Japanese Empire pressured the Thai government to allow the passage of Japanese troops to invade British-held Malaya and Burma. After the invasion, Thailand capitulated. The Thai government under Plaek Phibunsongkhram (known simply as Phibun) considered it profitable to co-operate with the Japanese war efforts, since Thailand saw Japan - who promised to help Thailand regain some of the Indochinese territories (in today's Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam) which had been lost to France - as an ally against Western imperialism. Following added pressure from the start of the Allied bombings of Bangkok due to the Japanese occupation, Axis-aligned Thailand declared war on the United Kingdom and the United States and annexed territories in neighbouring countries, expanding to the north, south, and east, gaining a border with China near Kengtung.”
@@UNCL3_1R0H Japan didn’t conquer Thailand. They joined them. And even if they did Conquer then that still doesn’t make Japanese and Siam the same. They have completely different histories. That’s like saying Poland is Germany because it was occupied
@@UNCL3_1R0H I have nothing against Japan as a whole or anything, but my point is that Siam/Thailand is very much not Japan. Very different cultures too despite what you pointed out
@@joedorben3504 It is believed that most Siamese in Britain today are descended from about eleven of these original imports. In their early days in Britain, they were called the "Royal Cat of Siam", reflecting reports that they had previously been kept only by Siamese royalty. Please shut up!
@@Dlihc You know, I live in Southeast Asian, and that was literally how Thailanders used to be called. It's an old name that had stopped been using ever since the French left SEA. My point is, that guy have a point.
I never saw Uncle Remus as anything but some black guy, just being a normal, happy guy. I still can't, no matter how hard I squint, but we live in a day and age where people with nothing better to do with their lives wake up every morning and ask "What can I be offended by today?"
i guess the white people that deem these things racist failed to realize that even today in the south the old men talk just like the “stereotype”. being from louisiana i struggle to understand how having black people talk in the same way old black men from the south talk TODAY is racist. if they had a white man play the jazzy character like we had in new orleans years ago, it would be labeled as cultural appropriation.
I love how people tried to call out and ban speedy gonzales but the Hispanic community defended him from being banned or canceled....I’m Mexican immigrant and I never saw these as an issue, it was for example in the case of speedy gonzales awesome to see culture on TV .
What about his cousin Slow poke Rodriguez 🤣 joking but I liked we had someone Mexican to see on TV even if it was a cartoon. He was portrayed as smart and strong
Seriously - This female announcer is seriously grasping at straws, and frankly comes off as a bit divisive - given the situation society is in, lately. Blagh.
King Louie is not racist. He was voiced by the legendary Italian-American singer Louis Prima who even played the trumpet and was probably no stranger to "jive" given his career.
Backed. Going even beyond this, Louis Prima was born and raised in New Orleans to a musical family and played out from a young age. His playing, his style, the way he walked and talked, were all a product of his surroundings. (Also, Sicilian-American, thank you very much! :P )
@@artofambrose Yes! I am aware of the difference between Sicilian-American and Italian American for my great grandpa was born in Sicily just west of Cefalu. I just wasn't 100% sure when I wrote that. I even call myself as having Sicilian heritage as opposed to Italian.
Would have been dope if it was Armstrong too though, though I see why they were worried about that. I feel like there would have been a case to be made for racism at that point, but it's still sad that sensitivity, however warranted, somehow mars a potentially tasteful character. I mean, King Louie is pretty dope, and at what point does something go from depiction to stereotype?
There is plenty more racism: -in Pinocchio the bad guy is White, - in Bernhard and Bianca: white - Cinderella and snow white: white - Robbin hood & Pocahontas: white - Peter Pan, aristocrats (Buttler): white There are as many negative caricatures of whites than any other people... Why have only some the right to feel offended?
As a white man, the racist depiction of Elmer Fudd has always bothered me and I'm glad this video finally addresses this. I haven't watched hed the video yet, but I'm assuming there are lots of examples of racism towards whites, considering how often white people are in cartoons.
Me as a thai person the song we are siamese if you please is a wrong representation of how the people in my country are but also the song is really amusing
That’s good. As a white woman trying to teach my young daughter acceptance and equality it was not helpful to see Disney using lyrics like “what makes the red man red” and calling Native American’s “savages” while they hunt them assuming they are too stupid to defend themselves. I love Disney, it’s been a huge part of our lives but they definitely got it wrong sometimes. I don’t deprive my daughter of the classics but I absolutely point out when and why some things miss the mark.
I guess Mulan was racist because the Chinese were all drawn with asian eyes? The King Louie scene was obviously trying to pay homage to jazz music and black culture, not making fun of it, hence why they wanted one of the best Jazz players to ever live to play the voice. People are so over dramatic, most of this wasn't even remotely racist.
Nope. Maybe 30%. If u genuinely think 90% of this video is a reach yr a fucking racist. But maybe u were just exaggerating? Most of the clips are blatantly racist but they definitely could have used better examples, they’re definitely out there.
@@selinbinay6426 lmao there literally movie clips it’s not like the people watching it are racist for 2 clips they just enjoy the movie as a whole and a lot of those clips are funny to the people of other races I hang out with my Asian friends think stereo types are funny because no one is actually that extreme I have Native American friends who literally think it is hilarious and literally taught me Native American war chants for when we go hunting my black friends literally make jokes about it too making a video about the top 10 racist movie clips from 1940 and below is literally promoting racism of course there racist the people who finish off the Native Americans taught them their ABCs it doesn’t mean their movies are shit it literally just means you have to know it was made in 1940 when people literally were taught their whole life that whites people where superior that doesn’t make it true but the great minds of society knew that was not true and take that with a grain of salt kick back and enjoy some goddam cartoons
Henry Warren I mean the guy who wrote it Kipling literally said “it’s the white mans burden to civilise the world” therefore the whole narrative has a colonial vibe! But I still love the film 😊
nay nay, you have to say it's "racist and evil white supremacy tricks from the deadman's graves" and go around and yell "ban white people" like all those idiot liberals x) hAHA.. I mean, go ahead and play piano with chopsticks if it pleases you! I eat chips with chopsticks so i don't get my hands dirty so it must mean chopsticks are genuinely an "all tasks fits one tool"
No moron what there saying is how they acted weren’t ok or overally added features these are more stereotypical than racist but it’s extremely rude at the same time
I think Disney WAS worried about having a well known black jazz musician voice an ape but ultimately they didnt do that so it really comes down to how people take it
I don’t think the King Louie thing is racist at all, that’s just how he wanted his character to be and it worked out really well! 😊 I think it would’ve worked out with the other guy too
King Louie was voiced by the great Louis Prima. I guess that made it okay bc it was an Italian man voicing an ape instead of a black man. What kind of cartoon animal would be seen as racist if voiced by an Italian man?
@@logann7942Yeah, I think it was okay either way. With the logic used anybody voicing a pig would be offensive, you don’t see people talking about Miss Piggy being offensive to woman for making a woman be a pig.
@@queenjahneen100I understand WHY it could be considered racist, I’m saying I don’t agree. Jazz is the perfect style for apes, anything you watch they’re generally depicted as goofy and fun. Jazz is a goofy and fun genre, the jungle book would never be the same without King Louie and I think a jazz legend like Armstrong would be perfect for the role. At the end of the day it’s hard to imagine the movie any different and it worked out well anyways.
Bro G being racist back then was the norm so they wouldn't call it racist back then.he isn't being racist he is just pointing out the fact they were ok with racism back then and not now
Intreductor I feel like I should remind you of the Aladdin entry. Even back then, that Arab League of Ihonestlyforgettheirleaguename had issues with two lines from "Arabian Nights."
@@tjhicks3600 there is no so :0 just saying that my childhood mind did not see these as racist or depiction of that race. In my mind it just a cartoonish cat and even now he is cartoonish lol
Wendla Bergman the ironic thing is that by NOT getting Louie Armstrong to voice the king because he’s black, the NAACP created a real case of racism (differential treatment based on race)
Lemme tell you about conservatives and liberals... Whatever side that you're on, if you're *radical* about your political position you're most likely a modern Nazi either way because radical liberals hate whites and radical conservatives hate blacks so maybe you should consider being more than one sided.
The only one that ever ‘bothered’ me was Sunflower…only because there could’ve easily been a ‘black’ centaur that didn’t have quite as exaggerated features. But that isn’t to say it’s at all racist…they actually had that hair style. The ‘Jive’ talk is total BS though, they weren’t singing/talking that way to be racist or offensive…they just naturally sounded like that. Implying it’s racist is just projecting your own dislike of anything that doesn’t fit what you decide to be ‘normal’.
Bambi's depiction of deer as cute timid creatures is also offensive. Real life deers are actually badass predators. I talked to a deer the other day and he told about how offensive that movie is!
You are correct. If they knew what they were talking about, Racism, is being derogatory towards someone because of their race. Well, we are all of one race! The Human Race. If we don't like someone because of the color of their skin, it makes them a "bigot," not a racist. Jes sayin!!
That’s very true. I’m from the south and now no one is racist. Seriously. However, my grandpa who is 93 and grew up in southern MS isn’t what I’d call racist, but he was raised with a stereotype. Not all of the south was 100% racist even during the civil rights era (not trying to overlook the many who were truly racist). Many southerners like my grandpa just knew more of a stereotype they didn’t know better from.
Stereotypes most often have some truth to them too. It only makes it a stereotype when thinking that its 100% true all the time. Plus stereotypes can be neutral or even positive. Heres a positive stereotype example: All canadians are super nice.
"How did we not notice these the first time" Simple; we didn't associate cartoon characters with racism and we treated them as actual cartoon characters without thinking "omg stereotypes".
So they aren't stereotypes because children don't understand the world in which they are and will grow up in? Doesn't have to be offending to be racist. I say that as a very, very, very white-passing Arab. The number of things people do or say in front of you when they think you're white is incredible. I can also see the advantages I have in person vs, let's say, applying for a job and people only see my Arab name. Racism is a system in which communities and individuals live. Those moments in animated movies and other cultural products are just a reflection of it (and the time when they were made). Like I said, none of what's in this vid upset or triggered me, but objectively they are racist, cliche or insulting in a way. With each movie, stereotypes and cringey moments are pushed away a little further to make better movies. For people criticizing being triggered and upset at stuff, you're all pretty triggered by this vid :')
@@ykMMD I don't think you know what the word "triggered" means. A statement was given, I gave out personal experiences I had watching this as a kid. I didn't associate them with racism then. I acknowledge them being stereotypes now, but I still don't consider them to be automatically racist either. Not in all cases anyway.
@@michelvanderlinden8363 i know what triggered mean, it may not be your case, but a lot of the people commenting here really do seem triggered by a video about racism in cultural products. Also, fine I guess, they are not racist, they are the result of a racist society.
@@michelvanderlinden8363 You don't understand what 'triggered' means either! You stole that word from mentally ill and neurodivergent folks trying to talk about their experiences, and now nobody can use it anymore!
I’m black and I can say that I don’t think the “King Louie” Scene In “The Jungle Book” was racist. I don’t have a problem with it🤷🏾♀️ Edit: I did not write this comment to start arguments. This is just my opinion and this is how I feel. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. I remember in Kindergarten we used to watch this and I never had a problem with it, Even now I still don’t🤷🏾♂️ but I respect everybody’s opinions. Everybody has a different perspective.
Do you get "offended" when white people presume to speak for you? It always irritates me when some dipshit presumes to be a representative of me especially when they hold the exact opposite view that I do.
mmm ppp, that's not really true. Racism is about actual hate of people of a particular decent. Stereotypes, like those highlighted in this video, are about satire; they're caricatures, something meant to be humorous, and like any joke, they can sometimes be unfunny and ill timed, but that alone does not make racism a factor.
"There is a difference between stereotypes and racism" Explain this without eventually leading into "it's funny because it's kind of true! You can't be racist if you are just stating facts!" People are ridiculously misinformed on topics like race.
@@foxboyo420 Thanks for pointing out the obvious🥱 He was just simply saying he wasn’t offended. I don’t think they were exactly intending that others shouldn’t be offended
I think its pretty racist of the Narrator to say the cats in Lady in the tramp are Japanese when they are clearly Siamese. From the country of Siam which later became Thailand. Not all Asians are the same. I'm Native and I loved Tiger Lily and the rest of Peter pan.
I think what she means is, the siamese cats were drawn to look like traditional, war-time/post WWII Japanese caricatures, which you can find all over examples of war propaganda, cartoons and posters from that period. So not only are they applying a villainous racist caricature of a Japanese person (exaggerated features and mocking accent), but they are also applying it to characters that are from a different region of Asia entirely.
Amber Westholder i also agree i am of native american descent and i see nothing wrong with peter pan , if it wasnt for all the shows like these people would know very little of native American culture and where they came from because they killed them all off people are trying to erase history
The Dumbo ones (the faceless workers and the crows) the faceless workers were to pay respect to all workers regardless of ethnic background who kept society functioning from behind the scenes and the crows were voiced by black Jazz musicians and Walt Disney payed out of pocket for them to be recorded at a recording studio down the street from the movie studio (because it was against the rules of Hollywood at the time for black people to enter a studio producing animated movies) to poke fun at the Jim Crow laws of the time, hence the use of crows and the leader's name being Jim Crow. The Song of the South does point out in the movie that the US Civil War had happened years ago and according to the line used would indicate that the movie is set at the earliest in 1868 with Uncle Remus being the owner of the plot of land he's working according to something he says towards the beginning of the film, the cautionary tales were published in a book titled Tales from the Briar Patch (briars are thorny bushes that have seed pods that tend to stick to clothes until physicly removed by the person).
but in the song it says "grab that rope you hairy ape" what do you think they mean by that? AND, the crows were not all black jazz musicians, in fact the main crow was voiced by a white guy called Cliff Edwards
That is incredible! And I kept thinking along the same lines, How would the woke SJW’s expect to see different ethnicity’s represented? If you only have one color (well white I guess , because there’s unbelievably seemingly quite a lot of ppl that actually don’t know the definition of RACISM & believe what they’ve been fed by culture & or the Hollywood Left extremists, that ONLY ppl lacking in melanin can & are born ‘’racists’’!) with no one allowed to use free speech & call it what it is, it has to actually be called Anti white racism, which is just breeding hatred so much more, that I have to ask who’s actually behind it all? It seems to backwards to be regular citizens. So if you bring up different ethnicity’s NOT negatively just in addition to a story, you’re branded forever a hateful evil racist, that’s ‘’INSANELY RACIST’’ 😳🤯😆including evidently your children & grandchildren that will be asked to pay 💰 reparations, for something they clearly didn’t understand in the first place!? But if you make an all white cast you’re branded (depending who exactly you are) usually with a similar brand. Frustrating because people never give ANY BENEFIT of the DOUBT. Also if you’re a hammer 🔨 all you see is nails. And to build bridges 🌁 we have to agree there’s a river in the first place. I’m still boycotting Showtime after having them for YEARS, for the ACTUALLY INSANELY RACIST backwards foul ball & hard push promotion of ‘’It’ll be ALL WHITE’’ This is literally opposite of what Dr. King so passionately reminded all of us about, including ones that weren’t born yet. The erasing of our history to fit into someone’s agenda is a quick arrival at degraded societies such as , totalitarian, Marxist, communism , that have been proven for thousands of years definitively don’t work either . Next stop will be all of us surviving in a version of Orwells book 1984. Yeah watch mojo really likes to stoke up embers of hate for views, w/o any thoughts of is this ‘’right’’ or ethical or even correct? I keep losing more & more respect for the people behind it. But evidently 💰💷💸 will sadly make a majority of people think, do & say things that aren’t congruent with their own beliefs or maybe it’s part of their religious or political beliefs agenda.
True but the real problem was how disney referenced their orgins. The Scottish terrier looked like a cartoon version of itself. The cats features where exaggerated beyond good taste
It was post-World War II after anti-Japanese sentiments and after we locked up over 110,000 Japanese people in internment camps. People used the term nips, japs, etc. And they were always portrayed as villains or evil in cartoons to create distaste for the Japanese in children. lmfao, it's actually the most egregious example of racism.
Jesus Christ these are stereotypes. That’s different than racism. Claiming everything is racist is half the problem. You can’t just cry racism everytime you see something you don’t like.
@@cati896 I was going to add this. Even as a young child I felt that they were really mocking all of the Natives in that movie BESIDES Tiger Lily. I was also a very sensitive child though, so maybe it was just me.
It's so dumb. I was watching a scene from Disney's The Jungle Book, mind you this is from way back in the 60s, and Disney got it correct with how they physically portrayed Mowgli. Of course, all the comments were turned off because the last 2 generations of Americans want to find some sort of fault in the previous generation's contribution to culture. Meanwhile, these same generations are incapable of coming up with any genuinely original stories or characters and constantly go back to the well created by the supposed bigots of America's past? When I was a kid growing up in the 70s, my granmother used to read Hiawatha to me, and yes. . . even as a white kid in S.Texas, I wanted to be an Indian. I guess that's now racist, to have these thoughts as a 5 year old kid.
What a piece of clickbait crap. First of all, none of these scenes and moments are forgotten, most of them are quite famous or infamous. And while some of them might be called racist none of them qualifies as "insanely racist".
I dunno, the black doll stamping its own butt with a mami or the ugly centaur waiting on the blondes is pretty disgusting unless you're a white supremacist and/or exceptionally daft.
I was watching this just so I could see what nonsense they would say about it and this whole video is nonsense in my eyes these are just classic moments we love watching to this day
let's be real. the only ones offended are the obvious easily offended group and even then, there is nothing here to complain about. It's the spoon-fed racism we have all been trained to be on the lookout for (largely due to the insane public school system) . the others shrug their shoulders and go about their work to be successful.
Uh~ Asian characters having Asian eyes and Asian background music? GOD FORBID! That's like getting offended by white disney characters having round eyes and pale skin.
Dumbass Swaggins, dark skin is a product of evolution. People in sun intense areas develop an increase in melanin which protects the individual from uv light. What is a skin defect is skin cancer which white people get more than most because they insist on living on sunny beaches when their skin is more geared towards colder places like Britain and Russia lol
I think racism and sexism is what is ruining comedy. We should be able to laugh at mistakes not make more. Just goes to show how racists defend themselves.
Oh come now... The cats are singing about being Siamese, singing very shall-we-say Eastern sounding, and the eye slants were way more drastic than anything else in the movie. It was intentional. I'm not one to cry about a racial caricature, but let's be real... that was a racial caricature.
The ironic part is Watch Mojo thinks characters should be portrayed as white as possible. Especially when it comes to how people are "supposed" to talk. Seems pretty racist to me.
+Dave Shaffer Far too many people use the words "insanely" and "countless" without having any idea what they mean. ("That racist cop has beaten up countless unarmed black teenagers!!")
Precisely. It's not racist if that's how most people at the time talked, and they did talk that way. It's like how people talk where I live on the southside of chicago in exaggerated slang and what not., it's not fricken racist if they speak in a certain manner and you point it out.
Different times quite frankly. What was acceptable back then is not today. I think today however everyone is too sensitive and looking for things to get offended about.
Quimby So I should get offended by Irish stereotypes? Or German? Those are the most predominant lineages I have, but I don't have any issue with it (unless I'm called a Nazi for having German blood). Everyone has been stereotyped, with the possible exception of "WASPs," or "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants."
First off Siamese are Thai not Japanese. I’m Thai and Ive always loved the we are Siamese song and don’t find it racist in any way it’s just a cute song with some Siamese cats.
Song of the south is an amazing movie and very heartfelt, people like to say that the people of color are slaves and this is not true. The movie takes place during the reconstruction era. The movie is also not a documentary it is a movie about an elderly man helping a young child. It is such a shame that it has gotten a bad rep from people who haven’t even seen the movie.
I never thought that either. But then again its been so long since I saw the movie and I only saw it as a child so I just saw him as just another talking animal in the movie.
EXACTLY I BET IF THEY USED A WHITE MAN IT WOUKD OFFEND WHITE PEOPLE, IF THEY USE A BUDDHIST IT WILL OFFEND BUDDHISTS. IF THRY USE A DOG THEN THEY WOULD BE OFFENDED. welp somebody gotta voice him... .
If the character of Siamese cats was actually racist, should the people of Siam/Thailand be the ones who feel offended the most? That's what I thought. However, when I showed the Siamese cats video in a rooms with hundreds of Siamese/Thai teenagers and young adults, everyone.....everyone smiled and laughed. Then I asked them didn't they feel offended by this racism? They all turned quiet and confused.
How do you know they weren’t offended back then ,none of us were born then and social media didn’t exist back then, were segregated black people that couldn’t even drink from some water fountains supposed to complain.
I'm not sure exactly what that is supposed to mean, nor do I understand how you could be racist against dead people? But if I can guess what you're saying, I would urge you to look at Thailand now. Since the 2014 coup, yes it has been a military dictatorship but its economy is stable and has a high GDP and Human Development Index relative to surrounding countries in SE Asia. Do you mean something else?
Oh, you caught that too... Hey, Mojo, you made good, if not obvious points that were made much more effectively by Honest Trailers of Classic Disney movies, you totally lost the "moral authority" you claimed by confusing Siam (modern Thailand?) with Japan.
Micky W How is Siam destroyed??? The governmet literally just changed the country’s name to make it easier to switch side from the axis to the allies so they wouldnt have to pay the war indemnity. Exept the name nothing else was changed. Same monarchy, same government, same capital, same currency and even the territory is the same by the time they changed their name. The word “destroyed” seems awfully unfit because even nowadays plenty of Thais still refer themselves as Siam. Ever heard of “Siam paragon” “Siam square” “Iconsiam” ????? The word Siam isnt 100% destroyed. There are hundreds of thousand of Thai company’s name having siam in their names... Even SCG(the largest and oldest government-run cement company in Thailand) is the abbreviation of Siam cement company. The Thais do love to refer themselves as “Chao Siam” which means people of Siam. Just because its no longer the official name of the country doesnt mean its destroyed lol.
Windy, you have offended/triggered so many people by just TALKING ABOUT racial characteristics. How dare you state that black people are black?!?! How dare you reference cultural or historical truths?!?! It is because SJWs want to own the language, as well as the topics, and most of all the conclusions.
@@windyvidz4434 No. Some people colored black character's skin tar pitch black. Because they think 'They have black skin compare us'. And that's why you shouldn't draw 'Litteral V slit eyes'. Because nobody fucking has it. It is just exaggerated feature, compare 'white' centered standard. If you can't admit it, than let's make every Caucasian character's eyes like a deep well hole!!
log out next time :/ Hmmm I don't think I can cure that type of strong ignorance. Sure there's some people who may be able to see the light, but some people are just to far gone.
... you can't have a Disney world & be this stupid... I mean, you could. But you'd still look pretty stupid. Also, I want to meet as many Asian characters as I can during my trip to Disney on my birthday. I mean, for my kid of course. No really, it'd be good for her. She sees white ppl all the time. Not so much Asian. My poor kid almost looks like she's infatuated w/ her own race... She's still a kid tho. Plz help her, earthlings 🤗🤞🖖
The #1 racist cartoon clip is 'Dumbo(1941) "Song of the Roustabouts". It's black people working like slaves 2 build a circus 4 dumbo and they sing, "We work all day, we work all night, we never learned to read or write, we're happy-hearted Roustabouts". THere's more lyrics including 'Grab that rope you hairy ape'....THATS Y IT SHOULD BE #1(And it wasnt even mentioned)
Yeah, is Sebastian the Crab racist against Jamaicans just because of his exaggerated accent? Or what about all the exaggerated Australian accents in "The Rescuers Down Under" or the exaggerated Cockney accents in "101 Dalmatians" and "Mary Poppins"?
Nightfall - in that respect, I agree. The songs wouldn't have been as memorable or nearly as good Had they not been done in that way. I for one think that the King Louis scene, song, and character would have been so much better if it had been voiced by Armstrong. That would have been amazing. It's sad that it would have been seen as any means of disrespect. In my opinion that would've been a real treasure. I love Louis Armstrong. Now, in the case of the depictions of human characters, all of the examples are indeed VERRY inappropriate and honestly just plain wrong. But, for anthropomorphised animal characters it is just part of what makes them rich in their diversity and development. They are, afterall, charicatures of and not a real representation.
Nightfall IKR! This is pathetic. Taking inspiration from certain culture, using slang, and having a black guy voice someone is WAY different from racism.
kat, I agree. And I also believe the depiction of the Asian themed animal designs could've been more subtle and not sooo overly exaggerated as well as the way they were voiced. But cartoon versions of humans are almost always over the top. There's a difference between stylization and exploitation. But sad to say, if one tried they could also say that the design of the characters from Moana were overly stereotypical and racist, and find a way to be offended by them as well. Unfortunately, the ones who find a way to be offended by everything, diminish the validity of the argument against depictions that truly are racist. We, as in society, need to find a way to remedy that aspect of the argument in order to be able to fix the truly offensive issues.
Jasper Trip - quickly removed? If you consider a few decades "quickly", then I guess you're right. It was the triggered Als and Jesses that petitioned for the censorship of these American classics in the late 90's.
Aristo Cats "everybody wants to be a cat" was the best part of the whole film to me especially when the buck tooth cat song his solo part. As a kid you don't see or think race...you see something funny and goofy and laugh at it not knowing it was wrong
If you don't see anything racist about it when you're a kid, that's fine. If you don't see anything racist with it when you're an adult, you should brush up on the history of racial stereotyping
@Presley Lu lad it’s not meant to be racist. Ok here’s what I use to determine racist intentions: -Listen to the song itself no video. If you hear like racist words or whatever, then yea it’s probably racist. - intentions. Was the purpose of the song solely to be racist? Or was it trying to be funny by poking at culture a little. - think about what’s really like REALLY racist. If I said white people can’t play basketball, that’s not racist it’s true I should know. But really a black cat with a trumpet is racist? Louis Armstrong is black right. But that’s part of what makes him great. Bru Louis Armstrong being white 😐 it’s just not as good. Lad my point is some of these songs are meant to reference culture not make fun of it. Besides you can’t get mad at the way that cat plays the trumpet. He’s my bro Get it, bc mr cat ._______.
same and have you noticed when they a show with only white people everyone freaks out and then when they use people with diffent races everyone said "it is racist"
Dylan daniel antonio Galaz Oyarzun racism is when people think that there is a difference in rights between races Stereotypes is a common belief of a certain race Do some research and go back to school before commenting punkass
This racist rhetoric is 🐃💩 I don’t see anything racist on this cartoons, just go and check what’s the definition of a cartoon of a person, the music they talk about, it was amazing, the historical places or names in part were created base on Arabic tales , you guys need to know the stories behind this Disney cartoons, Aladdin is person name created by beduins on the desert, etc etc. Stop the 🐃💩of racists, don’t feed bad feelings to the kids or immature adults.
Racist if the character doesn't match your particular color? They make white characters with the same color and we come in different shades too. Are you trying to be offended?
There’s nothing racist about giving cartoons slanted eyes or dark colored skin. It’s racist because they EXAGGERATED their features to *purposefully* mock them.
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You forgot that one small part in the first musical scene of All Dogs Go To Heaven where Itchy and Charlie were singing. Itchy says "...and even, a bit of *Siam*" referring to Siamese, depicted with those same buckteeth and slanted eyes.
You forgot to mention yourselves. Mojo sounds like an over-exaggerated black term and I'm offended by it.
Mr. King Kong: "MR MOJO RISING" .... A phrase repeated over & over in the song LA WOMAN by the DOORS, and written by Jim Morrison. Is an anagram of Jim Morrison's name [[try it, all the letters are represented here] [created by Jim Morrison himself]]] and yet this isn't offensive either.
Time for some political correctness again..
Ancient name for Thailand: Siam
Siamese cat: literally has the word siam in it
Watchmojo: J a p a n
AmateurOtaku Gaming Literally not that ancient... The Siamese only adopted the name “Thailand” less than a hundred years ago...
Even nowadays the neighboring countries of Thailand such as Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia still didnt come up with the word “Thailand”. I mean if you’re visiting Lao you’ll find 90% of their population still call us “Siam” rather than “Thai”.
do you think the animators cared or even knew where the cat breed originated? they just wanted to add racist jokes to the film its not that deep
Well the animators and Disney didn't know the that either because they're making fun of Japanese people not Thai people. U should change watchmojo to Americans
That's another trope, all Asians are just called Asians.
No effort is made to name which actual Asian country they're from... XD
Ok so my grandpa is Asian, and we were watching lady and the tramp, when the “we are Siamese” came up, he was laughing so hard for some reason. 😂
Me and my sister couldn't stop quoting that song everytime
Just because y'all laughed at it doesn't mean it's not problematic.
@@calebk9111 It’s age kind of stops it from being problematic. It’s just a product of the times
@@kaijuslayer3334 Age does not stop it from being problematic. People still watch these movies and American culture still takes impacts from them. And it's not just a product of the times. There were people in the past who understood why racism is wrong, and there are people in the present who don't think racism is wrong. It's not a matter of time, it's a matter of education and awareness. The lack of education and awareness will always be a problem because kids aren't born with all of that. Saying that these movies are a product of their time is fair, but it doesn't excuse or devalue the problematic nature of their content.
@@calebk9111 What are you gonna do about it? There’s nothing to do, time has passed and there’s not much of a problem to fix now. If you intend to “fix it” by removing it from view, I politely disagree that will do any good
Omg war propaganda is making fun of the enemy no way!!
Daniel Henry I never would have guessed!
wooooah who knew right?
Daniel Henry wow! I thought they would be nice to their enemy!
wow! who knew it would have tons of racist traits! like jim crow laws are fine right?
@Russell Jordan it was pretty noticeable and you should get pissed off because you cant forget something that was so crucial. legit most of american history is being racist
King Louie is awesome! Nothing wrong at all with him. Also one of my favorite disney movie songs of all time.
It's awesome. Nothing racist there
I’m Native American and I remember being young and thinking that tiger lily was so beautiful and how cool it was to see a Native American girl on tv
Nevaeh Cassidy I know! Tiger Lily is so beautiful & a Princess. Peter likes her & Wendy is jealous of her! That's hardly a negative light being shed.
I think they are confusing stereotypes with racism!
Jim Crow is by far the most cringe worthy to me. That was a hideous & unfair law. Obviously anything slavery referenced is racist.
Racism is defined as one race thinking they are superior to another... I don't see that in Peter Pan.
Nevaeh Cassidy you’re Indian
Nevaeh Cassidy :) i love how chill you are
Keplix yes quarter Yurok
Keplix thank you ☺️
Bro I’m Arab and there wasn’t a single scene in Aladdin that offended me😂
Same! Except maybe the part where they dressed Jasmine as a belly dancer but... ok
@@shi_. eh, no different than dressing a Japanese girl as one of those oriental dancers lmao, that scene didn’t do anything to me tbh lol
Bro, I’m Latino and didn’t even get a mention 🤣🤣 the worlds gone bloody insane 🤯
Same I thought the movie was totaly fine
@@thegrassyboy6163 Maybe the "when they cut off your hand" refferance in the opening scene...
Too much and uneccesary for a kid's cartoon!
But in other languages this prhase was not translated ,the lyrics were totaly different thank God! So I grew up adoring this movie,and not having those "American things" in my mind!
As an Asian, I find the cat playing the piano in 'Aristrocats' hilarious lol
"FoRtuNe cOoKiE aLWaYs wRoNg-"
The Aristocats and Lady and the Tramp was the first time I saw siamese cats as a kid. They looked so different and cute, I wanted a siamese cat! We had two siamese cats growing up and unfortunately passed away, I m looking to find a new Siam baby, they are my most favorite breed.
Maybe in US siamese cats are common house pet, but in South Europe they were not, so not easy to just see one around.
Same here!! I haven’t seen that movie since I was a kid and don’t remember it well but I literally spit out my drink laughing at that clip.
@Anastasia's Secret what an incredibly sad thing to say but actually believe?
Wow. One day I hope you want to build bridges of coexistence.
When you’re a hammer, all you see is nails, I’m not sure you’ll be able to understand the point.
If you can’t get outside of your own very short sighted version of the hate you’ve been conditioned into at least don’t toss around your hate to people who don’t care what people think of them & hopefully don’t see everyone as such separate individuals we’re literally all just humans.
Also EVERYONE at times of course are the butt of a joke here & there, lighten up, it build character.
@Anastasia's Secret racist much? Typical.
What people find hard to follow in stereotypes are usually correct in the worst of our culture. We hate to admit it.
In Ireland here now, when many are in the pub before dinner. Its 11am. After dinner they go back.
Watch mojo are the racist ones mistaking Siamese cats to be japenese that’s embarrassing
Japan isn't a RACE it's a Nationality.
Japanese and Siamese aren't colors. So no Racism White Supremacy.
Yeah they’re obviously Siamese
Didn't stop them from using the clip in their top 10 cat breeds video, either... 🙄
myles baker yea if they born there
@@negloblaxon7616 Siamese is an ethnicity too, its the old name of Thailand. They are supposed to be Thai
When your a child you dont see color just cartoons
Truth
That's a quote of gold.
Underrated
you do see color. you just don't give a shit.
How do you see cartoons if you don’t see color🤔🤔🤔 only white people say this shit
As an Asian, I take great offense to "the man" telling me what is racist and what what I should be offended by. Caricature or stereotype maybe, but I would hate for those characters to be changed or erased. I get a kick out of them. And you know what, it really does remind me of some of my relatives. So hey, unless you want to end up in a dull grey, monotone world, where people are afraid to jive talk, or have an accent, or you know, BE different, how about we all cool it with the recreational outrage and enjoy our differences. Even if that means having a bit of fun with it.
Thank you. How many times can I like this comment?!
It was all about the stereotype jokes when during my childhood and I'm very sure that Asians made fun of American stereotype culture at least few times in their life which I wouldn't might seeing just to make more jokes on both stereotypes.🤣
@@night-x6793 I agree. I always loved white people jokes from Fresh Prince and especially Dave Chappelle. Dave is a hero. Much of his comedy is racial, but it's all hilarious, and brings people from every culture together. Real racism today is done by drawing unspoken lines between creeds, colors, and classes and then telling each group the other is to blame.
@@ElectricIguana I'm still confuse what is racist means when there is only one species of human left still existing on the planet when the others basically died 1,000's of years ago where I question why or how this happened?🤷
Why is it offensive for specifically a white man tf
I find that most people that complain about The Aristocats have never actually seen it. Nearly every character in the film is a stereotype, from the hillbilly dogs to the Siamese cat. The black cat trumpet player, the hippie beatnick cat, even the main two characters. Duchess is rich and spoiled whereas O'Malley is a homeless alley cat. The whole movie is about culture clashes. But of course, people don't pay attention to things like plot or themes anymore.
Oh yeah, a culture clash were everyone’s features are greatly exaggerated
Yesss!!
Thank u 💯
Facts
@ZootSuitSanta Yes, because every race should be depicted as a 40 year old white man from Lincoln Nebraska.
Wait, so a black man voicing King Louie would be racist. A white man voicing King Louie, wouldn't be racist. If this sort of thinking isn't racist, I don't know what is.
Ryona That’s why they had an Italian guy voice him
A yellow man would be okay
But jazz music is so tighly associated with black culture.
It’s because jazz culture was popular among black ppl and they had accents/slang that they tried to copy, it the same as doing an Italian,Asian,or any stereotypical accent.
the Hypocrisy of Correctness often Cofuses People.
NO goddamnit no I'm ok with some of this list but as a black kid I was proud af of Scat Cat, don't you goddamn tell me that's racist
Thank you!! They can't properly view the world of yesterday through today's eyes! They haven't proper perspective and thus will judge incorrectly.
I always thought the cat was suppose to be the " Cool cat"
They think it's racist because they're white people who "pity" minorities
Or something
Gotta get rid of the good with the bad. This is current year, dontcha know! Scat Cat gets flushed with everything else that could maybe, possibly, potentially get some sensitive soul's panties in a bunch.
@@chadangeles3856 Something is wrong with you. But since you're a furry, I think you're proudly proclaiming that to be so.
King Louis 'racist' is a little far fetched.
Molino Eric it sounds messed up but u can say the same thing saying that a black man should be excluded by a role because of his race (i get ur point it’s a tricky one)
@@marcofriio32 I'd like to point out that King Louis is not voiced by a black man. He's voiced by a white jazz musician named Louis Prima. Does that make the character more racist or less?
Molino Eric you’re too soft. It’s a fucking movie lol. Everyone is so thin-skinned now - no wonder this world is going to shit.
Molino Eric that black actor also auditioned for the role so he knows what he did and he was ok with it
Yeah just yeah just because the voice actors talk with slang doesn't mean it's racest that's way of Disney putting in characters without putting a stereotype on what type of character it is or they would have just made him people and then you could have called them all Races
As a young child watching Peter Pan I thought the Tiger Lily character was beautiful.
She was. The rest of the tribe...
@@SailorBarsoom Yes, but she was portayed beautifully because she is a girl. Like Wendy. The adults in the tribe were kind of ugly but so were the pirates or any other of the adults, for that matter.
@@jipke
You make a good point. In Never Never Land, if you're adult and male, you're ugly.
@@vgbcp3rs0na41 don't worry I'm sure the sjws plan on ruining another classic
@@vgbcp3rs0na41 oh absolutely, I despise racism. But you can't just remove it and pretend it never happened. those who forget the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. We need to see it. We need to see it a million times.
People need to learn that stereotypes are not always negative
Exactly!
Facts, I think the red man one is cute due to how they danced with them ^^
The thing is, they are, even if they’re superficially positive. For example, the stereotype that Asians are smarter than other races is an overgeneralization applied in a manner such that Asian students are put under more pressure than other students.
The part of overgeneralization is really where this comes from.
@@ThighFish u have a point,
I hope they realize that they're called "Siamese" cats because Siam was a previous name for Thailand and not Japan. For talking about racism these people seem to generalize a lot
You do realize Siam was conquered by the Japanese and basically puppeted by them during the Second World War resulting in a japanese-ification of much of Thai society at that time. Both japanese cultures and customs along with fascism were forced on the Thai people. While I do believe maybe watch mojo got this wrong by not explaining the obvious origins of Siam, I don’t think explaining the Japanese connection was wrong here either. “the Japanese Empire pressured the Thai government to allow the passage of Japanese troops to invade British-held Malaya and Burma. After the invasion, Thailand capitulated. The Thai government under Plaek Phibunsongkhram (known simply as Phibun) considered it profitable to co-operate with the Japanese war efforts, since Thailand saw Japan - who promised to help Thailand regain some of the Indochinese territories (in today's Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam) which had been lost to France - as an ally against Western imperialism. Following added pressure from the start of the Allied bombings of Bangkok due to the Japanese occupation, Axis-aligned Thailand declared war on the United Kingdom and the United States and annexed territories in neighbouring countries, expanding to the north, south, and east, gaining a border with China near Kengtung.”
@@UNCL3_1R0H Japan didn’t conquer Thailand. They joined them. And even if they did Conquer then that still doesn’t make Japanese and Siam the same. They have completely different histories. That’s like saying Poland is Germany because it was occupied
@@UNCL3_1R0H Thailand that literally let Japan went through their country so Japan can invade the neighbouring country , Malaysia:
@@UNCL3_1R0H A lot of countries were conquered and RAPED by Japan in World War II.
@@UNCL3_1R0H I have nothing against Japan as a whole or anything, but my point is that Siam/Thailand is very much not Japan. Very different cultures too despite what you pointed out
"Stereotyped" and "racist" must not be considered as synonyms...
Thank you person that payed attention in class. Insensitivity and racism are very very different things
That is true, but there are many instances in which the two overlap.
@SamTheSoviet42 Can you give any examples of offensive white stereotypes in Disney movies?
@@calebk9111 One can lead to the other, I'll give you that !
@SamTheSoviet42 where are those white stereotypes if you don't mind me asking
"Obvious Japanese sterotypes of Si and Am" you mean the 2 Siamese breed cats from Thailand?
YEP! I called them out too. I was all "Whos being racist one MOJO"
Cats have slanted eyes? HOW RUDE to Feline-Americans!!!
"Siam" is what Thailand used to be known as, that's where they got the names from and where the term 'Siamese' came from
@@joedorben3504 It is believed that most Siamese in Britain today are descended from about eleven of these original imports. In their early days in Britain, they were called the "Royal Cat of Siam", reflecting reports that they had previously been kept only by Siamese royalty. Please shut up!
@@Dlihc You know, I live in Southeast Asian, and that was literally how Thailanders used to be called. It's an old name that had stopped been using ever since the French left SEA. My point is, that guy have a point.
I never saw Uncle Remus as anything but some black guy, just being a normal, happy guy. I still can't, no matter how hard I squint, but we live in a day and age where people with nothing better to do with their lives wake up every morning and ask "What can I be offended by today?"
I love Uncle Remus, him being happy, his character and song helped me in a very difficult time in my life.
so you are saying racist attitudes are acceptable
@@Raidenmommy89 how does uncle remus have a racist attitude?
i guess the white people that deem these things racist failed to realize that even today in the south the old men talk just like the “stereotype”. being from louisiana i struggle to understand how having black people talk in the same way old black men from the south talk TODAY is racist. if they had a white man play the jazzy character like we had in new orleans years ago, it would be labeled as cultural appropriation.
@Tinovimbanashe nyirendah you gonna be OK Lil fella? Huh? You extra sensitive today😢??
I love how people tried to call out and ban speedy gonzales but the Hispanic community defended him from being banned or canceled....I’m Mexican immigrant and I never saw these as an issue, it was for example in the case of speedy gonzales awesome to see culture on TV .
Besides if you think about it he was the first Mexican protagonist
What about his cousin Slow poke Rodriguez 🤣 joking but I liked we had someone Mexican to see on TV even if it was a cartoon. He was portrayed as smart and strong
One of the first cancellations of a stereotype is the Frito Bandito.
Coco 2017 and the new incomming film encanto
I never got a negative impression of Mexicans from Speedy. He was clever, plucky and possessed a remarkable skill.
King Louie is an Italian Jazz singer... that’s how that man talked in real life... he lived in that generation and scene... not Racism.
Louis Prima!
Mrspeebody 😉
Seriously - This female announcer is seriously grasping at straws, and frankly comes off as a bit divisive - given the situation society is in, lately. Blagh.
Yeah, some people nowadays just assume anything that relates to black people as racist
She probably vegan also
King Louie is not racist. He was voiced by the legendary Italian-American singer Louis Prima who even played the trumpet and was probably no stranger to "jive" given his career.
Backed. Going even beyond this, Louis Prima was born and raised in New Orleans to a musical family and played out from a young age. His playing, his style, the way he walked and talked, were all a product of his surroundings. (Also, Sicilian-American, thank you very much! :P )
@@artofambrose Yes! I am aware of the difference between Sicilian-American and Italian American for my great grandpa was born in Sicily just west of Cefalu. I just wasn't 100% sure when I wrote that. I even call myself as having Sicilian heritage as opposed to Italian.
Would have been dope if it was Armstrong too though, though I see why they were worried about that. I feel like there would have been a case to be made for racism at that point, but it's still sad that sensitivity, however warranted, somehow mars a potentially tasteful character. I mean, King Louie is pretty dope, and at what point does something go from depiction to stereotype?
Only pure sicilians can become made men
WatchMojo: as dumb as it gets.
There is plenty more racism:
-in Pinocchio the bad guy is White,
- in Bernhard and Bianca: white
- Cinderella and snow white: white
- Robbin hood & Pocahontas: white
- Peter Pan, aristocrats (Buttler): white
There are as many negative caricatures of whites than any other people... Why have only some the right to feel offended?
It’s ok to have different cultures depicted in cartoons. It’s okay for people to be different.
I don't think that that was ever said
It's ok for those people to be in the writing room and have a say so in how they are depicted, too.
As a white man, the racist depiction of Elmer Fudd has always bothered me and I'm glad this video finally addresses this.
I haven't watched hed the video yet, but I'm assuming there are lots of examples of racism towards whites, considering how often white people are in cartoons.
Thrue but it depends if these stereotypes are real or just a wrong representation of culture
Me as a thai person the song we are siamese if you please is a wrong representation of how the people in my country are but also the song is really amusing
as a native american, tiger lily was always my favorite and the chief was the coolest so,,,,,,,
That’s good. As a white woman trying to teach my young daughter acceptance and equality it was not helpful to see Disney using lyrics like “what makes the red man red” and calling Native American’s “savages” while they hunt them assuming they are too stupid to defend themselves. I love Disney, it’s been a huge part of our lives but they definitely got it wrong sometimes. I don’t deprive my daughter of the classics but I absolutely point out when and why some things miss the mark.
@@emilywhittaker9414 tbh I don't think kids even notice
I'm very glad you were not offended
I always hated tiger lily imo, don't hate me.
@@emilywhittaker9414 When I was a kid and heard the “What makes the red man red” I didn’t even understand what it meant.
Welcome to America, how can I offend you today?
Andrew Truax s "I find that offensive"
It’s not America, just some freaky liberals
Andrew Truax offense is taken. Not given.
It wouldn't be America without frivolous lawsuits
Yeh, I would like a double racist Starbucks coffee with a side of racist Pepe. Extras offensive pls
"How did we not notice the first time round?" Because we were children!!
THATS WHAT I SAID 💀💀
People should stop being so sensitive
@Steven Universe I don't give a shit
And children don’t judge. They are way too pure to think it’s something racist.
Adults think in racist ways, that’s why we see racism everywhere.
No, because we just weren't offended by everything.
You forgot how all villains in todays cartoons are white men. But wait, you don't mind racism as long as it's against white people.
I guess Mulan was racist because the Chinese were all drawn with asian eyes?
The King Louie scene was obviously trying to pay homage to jazz music and black culture, not making fun of it, hence why they wanted one of the best Jazz players to ever live to play the voice.
People are so over dramatic, most of this wasn't even remotely racist.
lolHero there was some criticism amongst the Chinese over how unattractive the characters looked in Mulan though.
They mean with over exaggerated features and a stereotypical accent.
lolHero Agree, also King Louie appears to be an orangutan which is the most intelligent.
agreed
lolHero wait are you serious you don’t find anything wrong with the other ones
Anyone else see 90% of this as a HUUUUGE stretch.
sjw level mental gymnasics here
Nope. Maybe 30%. If u genuinely think 90% of this video is a reach yr a fucking racist. But maybe u were just exaggerating? Most of the clips are blatantly racist but they definitely could have used better examples, they’re definitely out there.
i saw 100% of it as a huge stretch
@@wildwesternaustralian4357 did you not see the bit about sunflower from Fantasia ? How can u even remotely call tht a stretch dude
@@selinbinay6426 lmao there literally movie clips it’s not like the people watching it are racist for 2 clips they just enjoy the movie as a whole and a lot of those clips are funny to the people of other races I hang out with my Asian friends think stereo types are funny because no one is actually that extreme I have Native American friends who literally think it is hilarious and literally taught me Native American war chants for when we go hunting my black friends literally make jokes about it too making a video about the top 10 racist movie clips from 1940 and below is literally promoting racism of course there racist the people who finish off the Native Americans taught them their ABCs it doesn’t mean their movies are shit it literally just means you have to know it was made in 1940 when people literally were taught their whole life that whites people where superior that doesn’t make it true but the great minds of society knew that was not true and take that with a grain of salt kick back and enjoy some goddam cartoons
how is jungle book racist? thats how they talk. ignoring someones race is more racist than stating a fact
What race? The characters are literally apes.
Btw look up who wrote the original jungle book. He was a racist European colonist during the rapid colonization of Africa pre WW1 check your facts kid
Henry Warren in the jungle book the monkey called the boy his cousin in terms saying the white ppl called black ppl monkeys 🤷🏽♀️its very racist
Henry Warren I mean the guy who wrote it Kipling literally said “it’s the white mans burden to civilise the world” therefore the whole narrative has a colonial vibe! But I still love the film 😊
Alainah Becton but the boy isn’t white either
As a child I saw most of these. My take was, the world is a wondrous place waiting to be explored for it's many differing people and places.
Watching that cat play the piano with chopsticks really inspired me as a kid... (and I’m chinese 😂)
I actually tried to play the piano with chopsticks as a kid because I watched this movie. My parents and grandparents had a good laugh
"Chopsticks" is the name of a simple tune that anybody can play on a piano using only two fingers. The visual pun is part of the joke...
nay nay, you have to say it's "racist and evil white supremacy tricks from the deadman's graves" and go around and yell "ban white people" like all those idiot liberals x) hAHA..
I mean, go ahead and play piano with chopsticks if it pleases you!
I eat chips with chopsticks so i don't get my hands dirty so it must mean chopsticks are genuinely an "all tasks fits one tool"
But white liberals are saying that you should be offended aka they think they're smarter and know what's best for you (actual racism)
@@chapel66 also by censoring you tube.
So you cant design a character with a trace of culture anymore without being racist?
Malthe Korsgaard Basically 🤦🏼♀️
no fun allowed!
Idk I thought the Jewish man "wolf" character was a lil racist, but Disney was known to not be a fan of Jews, so I guess it was expected?
No moron what there saying is how they acted weren’t ok or overally added features these are more stereotypical than racist but it’s extremely rude at the same time
@heather c "seems like a small thing to worry about"
For you.
Everyone: King Louis is an orangutan.
WatchMojo: He's Black
That's a racist standpoint to take Watch Mojo
Ikr
He’s not black he’s orange
Man these people are blind how do they even know it’s racist lol
the fact that they see racism in that shows that they are racist themselves
I think Disney WAS worried about having a well known black jazz musician voice an ape but ultimately they didnt do that so it really comes down to how people take it
@@leonardonetagamer yes because a regular person cant think of these things. only a racist knows what racist people truly think
Some of the characters sang jazz? *RACIST*
You said jazz and you're not black? RACIST!!1!
You said black and you're not jazz? RACIST!!
You said racist and you're not Black?! JAZZ!!!!
You said jazz and you're not racist? BLACK!!
You said jazz and you're not racist? *CHARACTERS*
I don’t think the King Louie thing is racist at all, that’s just how he wanted his character to be and it worked out really well! 😊 I think it would’ve worked out with the other guy too
Agreed. Not to mention, King Louie was voiced by Italian American musician Louis Prima.
It has to do with people calling black people monkeys and apes. THAT is why it was racist.
King Louie was voiced by the great Louis Prima. I guess that made it okay bc it was an Italian man voicing an ape instead of a black man. What kind of cartoon animal would be seen as racist if voiced by an Italian man?
@@logann7942Yeah, I think it was okay either way. With the logic used anybody voicing a pig would be offensive, you don’t see people talking about Miss Piggy being offensive to woman for making a woman be a pig.
@@queenjahneen100I understand WHY it could be considered racist, I’m saying I don’t agree. Jazz is the perfect style for apes, anything you watch they’re generally depicted as goofy and fun. Jazz is a goofy and fun genre, the jungle book would never be the same without King Louie and I think a jazz legend like Armstrong would be perfect for the role. At the end of the day it’s hard to imagine the movie any different and it worked out well anyways.
Title should be changed to "Disney moments that would be considered racist today"
Intreductor seems legit as hell
Intreductor there my were racist back then too simpleminded fool
Bro G being racist back then was the norm so they wouldn't call it racist back then.he isn't being racist he is just pointing out the fact they were ok with racism back then and not now
Intreductor Well, yeah, no shit, Sherlock. Lol But no matter what time period they're from, they're still racist.
Intreductor I feel like I should remind you of the Aladdin entry. Even back then, that Arab League of Ihonestlyforgettheirleaguename had issues with two lines from "Arabian Nights."
Im Asian and i love “The Siamese Cat Song" that cool
I didn’t even knew they were Chinese till she mentioned it. I wouldn’t even know now if she pointed it out. Lol
@@Jesus-vu9fs so
@@tjhicks3600 there is no so :0 just saying that my childhood mind did not see these as racist or depiction of that race. In my mind it just a cartoonish cat and even now he is cartoonish lol
@Kiara McGinnis I mean it’s just a kids show. See it in a kid’s imagination. Sorry if this comment hella bias
@@Jesus-vu9fs I thought they were Thai lol
King Louie feels like a send up or tribute to the great black jazz musicians of the day, not an attempt to demean
Wendla Bergman the ironic thing is that by NOT getting Louie Armstrong to voice the king because he’s black, the NAACP created a real case of racism (differential treatment based on race)
cant win
Lemme tell you about conservatives and liberals... Whatever side that you're on, if you're *radical* about your political position you're most likely a modern Nazi either way because radical liberals hate whites and radical conservatives hate blacks so maybe you should consider being more than one sided.
@@bethperforms6191 king louie is never portrayed as inferior to the other animals in the film
@@bethperforms6191 hes talking to a BROWN kid saying he wishes he could be like him (human). His name is KING Louie
The only one that ever ‘bothered’ me was Sunflower…only because there could’ve easily been a ‘black’ centaur that didn’t have quite as exaggerated features. But that isn’t to say it’s at all racist…they actually had that hair style. The ‘Jive’ talk is total BS though, they weren’t singing/talking that way to be racist or offensive…they just naturally sounded like that. Implying it’s racist is just projecting your own dislike of anything that doesn’t fit what you decide to be ‘normal’.
You forgot to mention that the depiction of furniture as servants in Beauty of the Beast, is offensive to the furniture-american community
Oh yea! How dare they forget to include that!
Bambi's depiction of deer as cute timid creatures is also offensive. Real life deers are actually badass predators. I talked to a deer the other day and he told about how offensive that movie is!
@@Larry_Ibarra lmao🤣🤣🤣
i laughed harder than i was supposed to 😭
PLSSSS🤣🤣
I think people are starting to forget what racism is 🤷🏽♀️
Oh, you think?
@@grimnoob893 oh is it realy happining oh crap
You are correct. If they knew what they were talking about, Racism, is being derogatory towards someone because of their race. Well, we are all of one race! The Human Race. If we don't like someone because of the color of their skin, it makes them a "bigot," not a racist. Jes sayin!!
But how is it rasict to put black ppl to play Disney cartoons voices ???
@@Graceadaamm it’s not but some ppl think it’s
Racism and stereotypes are two different things. Racism is based on hatred. A stereotype is based on ignorance. They are not the same thing.
THANK YOU
That's right. Thanks for explaining
That’s very true. I’m from the south and now no one is racist. Seriously. However, my grandpa who is 93 and grew up in southern MS isn’t what I’d call racist, but he was raised with a stereotype. Not all of the south was 100% racist even during the civil rights era (not trying to overlook the many who were truly racist). Many southerners like my grandpa just knew more of a stereotype they didn’t know better from.
@Rocky Croods "iM bLaCk AnD iM nOt OfFeNdED bY rAciSt PeOpLe" 🧑🏻💻
Stereotypes most often have some truth to them too. It only makes it a stereotype when thinking that its 100% true all the time. Plus stereotypes can be neutral or even positive. Heres a positive stereotype example: All canadians are super nice.
I'm black and 70 years old but I always enjoyed these cartoons they were hilarious.
👩🏼💻
@@etherealjamiya fr😂😂😂😂
@@etherealjamiya exactly whenever you see that “I’m black but.....” guarantee you it’s a white person behind that comment
@@Mike-do3oy After that logic every person who says "I'm white but..." is actually black. Strawmanning.
@david ludwig facts
Now I remember why I unsubscribed from watchmojo... 😑
Sable lets keep it like that then
Right, you were really a subscriber...
VXBEWITHME He probably was. I was at one point. Until 2015 that is.
sAy wHAAt? So was I. Unsubbed like 2 years ago. Found this on trending and I see they’re still SJW cucks
Doesn't matter to them. It's your views that earn them money.
Remember kids everything's racist and if you disagree, your a racist.
GodDogofVice finally you understand
But it ain't racist if you are black 🙄
-white boy
GodDogofVice are you pink.............wait that’s racist against pink people probably...................NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Couldn't have said it better myself. These are just cartoons but lets label everything and anything racist.
Uncle Remus is not as racist as you say. He is a black character from black folk tales, and he talked like the black of the time, how is that racist?
It probably was not it’s intentional
@guyontheblackchair I think that was the intentions of the storytellers and of Walt Disney himself.
@guyontheblackchair Guess people then were not ready for a mostly black movie
"How did we not notice these the first time"
Simple; we didn't associate cartoon characters with racism and we treated them as actual cartoon characters without thinking "omg stereotypes".
So they aren't stereotypes because children don't understand the world in which they are and will grow up in? Doesn't have to be offending to be racist. I say that as a very, very, very white-passing Arab. The number of things people do or say in front of you when they think you're white is incredible. I can also see the advantages I have in person vs, let's say, applying for a job and people only see my Arab name.
Racism is a system in which communities and individuals live. Those moments in animated movies and other cultural products are just a reflection of it (and the time when they were made). Like I said, none of what's in this vid upset or triggered me, but objectively they are racist, cliche or insulting in a way. With each movie, stereotypes and cringey moments are pushed away a little further to make better movies.
For people criticizing being triggered and upset at stuff, you're all pretty triggered by this vid :')
@@ykMMD I don't think you know what the word "triggered" means. A statement was given, I gave out personal experiences I had watching this as a kid. I didn't associate them with racism then. I acknowledge them being stereotypes now, but I still don't consider them to be automatically racist either. Not in all cases anyway.
@@michelvanderlinden8363 i know what triggered mean, it may not be your case, but a lot of the people commenting here really do seem triggered by a video about racism in cultural products. Also, fine I guess, they are not racist, they are the result of a racist society.
This is why they are dangerous, they make u racist without u realizing it lol
@@michelvanderlinden8363 You don't understand what 'triggered' means either! You stole that word from mentally ill and neurodivergent folks trying to talk about their experiences, and now nobody can use it anymore!
I’m black and I can say that I don’t think the “King Louie” Scene In “The Jungle Book” was racist. I don’t have a problem with it🤷🏾♀️
Edit: I did not write this comment to start arguments. This is just my opinion and this is how I feel. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. I remember in Kindergarten we used to watch this and I never had a problem with it, Even now I still don’t🤷🏾♂️ but I respect everybody’s opinions. Everybody has a different perspective.
APPLAUSE For you. King Louie and the rest are just standard Jazz style music
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Havent seen the jungle book since I was little. But king louie was a very interesting character
@@zinofn4555 You must don't know what happened in history, then???
@@dechale I hate it😑
Do you get "offended" when white people presume to speak for you? It always irritates me when some dipshit presumes to be a representative of me especially when they hold the exact opposite view that I do.
There is a difference between stereotypes and racism
Exactly... and stereotypes are funny as fuck! Racism not so much, but a closet racist, aka SJW, can't tell the difference.
Thats what i was thinking, these are cartoons they are supposed to be exaggerated characters.
mmm ppp, that's not really true. Racism is about actual hate of people of a particular decent. Stereotypes, like those highlighted in this video, are about satire; they're caricatures, something meant to be humorous, and like any joke, they can sometimes be unfunny and ill timed, but that alone does not make racism a factor.
😂
"There is a difference between stereotypes and racism" Explain this without eventually leading into "it's funny because it's kind of true! You can't be racist if you are just stating facts!" People are ridiculously misinformed on topics like race.
Fun fact: In the german version of the original arbian nights song, they sang that you loose your head, not ear.
Good
That would be even more racist.
would be more accurate
So much more in line with sharia law.
Bro, I’m black and the crows are probably my favorite characters in the whole Dumbo movie
just because you weren’t offended doesn’t mean others weren’t
And some chicken 🍗
@@foxboyo420 it’s literally not offensive in any way
@@slimmyjim1682 now THAT’S racist!!!
@@foxboyo420 Thanks for pointing out the obvious🥱 He was just simply saying he wasn’t offended. I don’t think they were exactly intending that others shouldn’t be offended
I think its pretty racist of the Narrator to say the cats in Lady in the tramp are Japanese when they are clearly Siamese. From the country of Siam which later became Thailand. Not all Asians are the same. I'm Native and I loved Tiger Lily and the rest of Peter pan.
I think what she means is, the siamese cats were drawn to look like traditional, war-time/post WWII Japanese caricatures, which you can find all over examples of war propaganda, cartoons and posters from that period. So not only are they applying a villainous racist caricature of a Japanese person (exaggerated features and mocking accent), but they are also applying it to characters that are from a different region of Asia entirely.
Didn't they sing "We are Siamese is you please, We are Siamese if you don't please"?
disarraygun - I think what she meant is, “I think Siam is part of, or was, Japan. And I can’t be bothered to do any actually research for this video.”
Amber Westholder i also agree i am of native american descent and i see nothing wrong with peter pan , if it wasnt for all the shows like these people would know very little of native American culture and where they came from because they killed them all off people are trying to erase history
Literally nobody cares.
The Dumbo ones (the faceless workers and the crows) the faceless workers were to pay respect to all workers regardless of ethnic background who kept society functioning from behind the scenes and the crows were voiced by black Jazz musicians and Walt Disney payed out of pocket for them to be recorded at a recording studio down the street from the movie studio (because it was against the rules of Hollywood at the time for black people to enter a studio producing animated movies) to poke fun at the Jim Crow laws of the time, hence the use of crows and the leader's name being Jim Crow. The Song of the South does point out in the movie that the US Civil War had happened years ago and according to the line used would indicate that the movie is set at the earliest in 1868 with Uncle Remus being the owner of the plot of land he's working according to something he says towards the beginning of the film, the cautionary tales were published in a book titled Tales from the Briar Patch (briars are thorny bushes that have seed pods that tend to stick to clothes until physicly removed by the person).
but in the song it says "grab that rope you hairy ape" what do you think they mean by that?
AND, the crows were not all black jazz musicians, in fact the main crow was voiced by a white guy called Cliff Edwards
Just shows how much love goes into a WatchMojo video.
That is incredible! And I kept thinking along the same lines, How would the woke SJW’s expect to see different ethnicity’s represented? If you only have one color (well white I guess , because there’s unbelievably seemingly quite a lot of ppl that actually don’t know the definition of RACISM & believe what they’ve been fed by culture & or the Hollywood Left extremists, that ONLY ppl lacking in melanin can & are born ‘’racists’’!) with no one allowed to use free speech & call it what it is, it has to actually be called Anti white racism, which is just breeding hatred so much more, that I have to ask who’s actually behind it all? It seems to backwards to be regular citizens. So if you bring up different ethnicity’s NOT negatively just in addition to a story, you’re branded forever a hateful evil racist, that’s ‘’INSANELY RACIST’’ 😳🤯😆including evidently your children & grandchildren that will be asked to pay 💰 reparations, for something they clearly didn’t understand in the first place!? But if you make an all white cast you’re branded (depending who exactly you are) usually with a similar brand.
Frustrating because people never give ANY BENEFIT of the DOUBT.
Also if you’re a hammer 🔨 all you see is nails.
And to build bridges 🌁 we have to agree there’s a river in the first place.
I’m still boycotting Showtime after having them for YEARS, for the ACTUALLY INSANELY RACIST backwards foul ball & hard push promotion of ‘’It’ll be ALL WHITE’’
This is literally opposite of what Dr. King so passionately reminded all of us about, including ones that weren’t born yet. The erasing of our history to fit into someone’s agenda is a quick arrival at degraded societies such as , totalitarian, Marxist, communism , that have been proven for thousands of years definitively don’t work either . Next stop will be all of us surviving in a version of Orwells book 1984.
Yeah watch mojo really likes to stoke up embers of hate for views, w/o any thoughts of is this ‘’right’’ or ethical or even correct? I keep losing more & more respect for the people behind it. But evidently 💰💷💸 will sadly make a majority of people think, do & say things that aren’t congruent with their own beliefs or maybe it’s part of their religious or political beliefs agenda.
Making a Chinese character look chinese is racist?
Yes. Stop asking questions. Questions are racist.
According to butthurt, over sensitive, bedwetters yes yes it is
...because it's a cat?
Having exaggerated features is pretty much like a Chinese version of black face.
Do you what the cihty chicken or the chihty beef
Oh no! Siamese Cats being portrayed as Asians! Did you know they also had a Scottish Terrier portrayed as a Scotsman??? THAT'S WACIST!!!!
True but the real problem was how disney referenced their orgins. The Scottish terrier looked like a cartoon version of itself. The cats features where exaggerated beyond good taste
@@dontlookatme4444 who cares
Oh no I'm scottish.Im so offended.Not
Pokémon Trainer Elio thank you!
It was post-World War II after anti-Japanese sentiments and after we locked up over 110,000 Japanese people in internment camps.
People used the term nips, japs, etc. And they were always portrayed as villains or evil in cartoons to create distaste for the Japanese in children.
lmfao, it's actually the most egregious example of racism.
Jesus Christ these are stereotypes. That’s different than racism. Claiming everything is racist is half the problem. You can’t just cry racism everytime you see something you don’t like.
Jean Wilconsin true
*racial stereotypes. Racism and racial stereotypes go hand in hand. They are certainly not mutually exclusive.
RACISM AND STEREOTYPES ARE THE SAME THING DUMB PIECE OF SH*T STOP HATING ON THE VIDEO
@@jaysonlloyd1829 Not true
Whoa you just can't cry racism in everywhere? Seems like you don't know what internet is made for.
I'm gonna pretend king Louie isn't part of this video .. he's one of the the smartest characters, displaying the utmost and unique intelligence
All animal animated movies will from now on be voiced by the actual animals.
🤗
Honestly that's the only way people with no life won't get butthurt
Don't give them ideas!!!!!
They’ll talk in their own tongues with English subtitles.
Yeah because if anybody who is a race or religion sing a song as a role of a monkey will be offended even though it’s coincidental
@@alaraby7997 exactly 🙄😒
As a Native American Tiger Lily was a legit queen I would run around singing and dancing pretending to be Tiger Lily
To be far Tiger Lily was the only native in Peter Pan drawn normally lol
@@cati896 I was going to add this. Even as a young child I felt that they were really mocking all of the Natives in that movie BESIDES Tiger Lily. I was also a very sensitive child though, so maybe it was just me.
Pinocchio featured Native American stereotypes in Pleasure Island where they throw out free cigars to the boys in the crowd.
I watched a musical of Peter Pan when I was a kid and Tiger Lily is my all time favorite. She's so cool and cute.
It's so dumb. I was watching a scene from Disney's The Jungle Book, mind you this is from way back in the 60s, and Disney got it correct with how they physically portrayed Mowgli. Of course, all the comments were turned off because the last 2 generations of Americans want to find some sort of fault in the previous generation's contribution to culture. Meanwhile, these same generations are incapable of coming up with any genuinely original stories or characters and constantly go back to the well created by the supposed bigots of America's past? When I was a kid growing up in the 70s, my granmother used to read Hiawatha to me, and yes. . . even as a white kid in S.Texas, I wanted to be an Indian. I guess that's now racist, to have these thoughts as a 5 year old kid.
"the siamese cats were drawn with obvious slanted eyes."
*yes, because thats what they look like.*
Lmao ikr
For real
No they dont?
@@Alex.515they do but it’s very exaggerated in the lady and the tramp
That was because we didn't care. There wasn't all this woke crap back then.
any black character from Disney: a
WatchMojo: RACIST
No these were pretty racist so
Fintan Magee shut up
@@javienceasar8620 hmmm no, they shouldn't shut up because they were right
Abby C I’m. It taking to you
definitely
We live in a world where people pretend to be offended.
Because they want to be in the news and be "cool"
At least credit Matt Groening when you quote him, fxxkface
Never thought of it like that. Now that I think about it, it makes sense.
Larsoboy123 What the hell are you talking about?! Are seriously offended by this guy's comment? I actually can't tell.
John Doe
I am also offended.
What a piece of clickbait crap. First of all, none of these scenes and moments are forgotten, most of them are quite famous or infamous. And while some of them might be called racist none of them qualifies as "insanely racist".
STOP HATING ON CLICKBAIT YOU PIECE OF CR*P, IT'S NOT A BAD THING
found the watchmojo employee
hahaha ^
I dunno, the black doll stamping its own butt with a mami or the ugly centaur waiting on the blondes is pretty disgusting unless you're a white supremacist and/or exceptionally daft.
I was watching this just so I could see what nonsense they would say about it and this whole video is nonsense in my eyes these are just classic moments we love watching to this day
let's be real. the only ones offended are the obvious easily offended group and even then, there is nothing here to complain about. It's the spoon-fed racism we have all been trained to be on the lookout for (largely due to the insane public school system) . the others shrug their shoulders and go about their work to be successful.
This is like being offended when an Italian guy eats pizza
Not the same level, do not try to trivialise the issue
😂😂 That's the best. This is why kids are a bunch of entitled brats, cuz their sensitive parents complaining about everything
@@celiasmith8662 This isn't an issue
@@celiasmith8662 there is quite literally no issue whatsoever. You're just sensitive.
@@DrHappy-hk4hl Yep just as Trump being president of the USA isn't an issue, sit you racist ass down!
Uh~ Asian characters having Asian eyes and Asian background music? GOD FORBID!
That's like getting offended by white disney characters having round eyes and pale skin.
OUT WITH THAT BIGOTRY
DAPHNE ahahah 🤣 right! Why you are so white?!
True
I know, right? Asian people with slanted eyes? The horror! That asian cat in the aristocats sound like George Takei.
Yeah and Asian people do sometimes have very broken English!
Political correctness is ruining comedy.
Levon Sarkisian blacks have a skin defect.this is why some blacks start turning white.its evolution
Dumbass Swaggins, dark skin is a product of evolution. People in sun intense areas develop an increase in melanin which protects the individual from uv light. What is a skin defect is skin cancer which white people get more than most because they insist on living on sunny beaches when their skin is more geared towards colder places like Britain and Russia lol
he is a triggered black man
Joey Splats I agree I think being Politically correct is bullsh*t
I think racism and sexism is what is ruining comedy. We should be able to laugh at mistakes not make more. Just goes to show how racists defend themselves.
COMMENTS: Literally no one is offended by any of these
"The cats have slanted eyes, a Japanese stereotype"
Society has forgot what a cat looks like
Fr
Oh come now... The cats are singing about being Siamese, singing very shall-we-say Eastern sounding, and the eye slants were way more drastic than anything else in the movie.
It was intentional.
I'm not one to cry about a racial caricature, but let's be real... that was a racial caricature.
@@runthenumbers9698 „I‘m not one to cry about racial caricature“
Crafting table
@@splatoon9072 they’re just explaining why it’s racist lol
The ironic part is Watch Mojo thinks characters should be portrayed as white as possible. Especially when it comes to how people are "supposed" to talk. Seems pretty racist to me.
Only one I would say is offensive would be No1 (0:37). The rest have no clear intention of racism. However I am not American.
lucky nords
+Dave Shaffer Far too many people use the words "insanely" and "countless" without having any idea what they mean. ("That racist cop has beaten up countless unarmed black teenagers!!")
Precisely. It's not racist if that's how most people at the time talked, and they did talk that way. It's like how people talk where I live on the southside of chicago in exaggerated slang and what not., it's not fricken racist if they speak in a certain manner and you point it out.
Mark-It-8-Dude my thoughts exactly
Different times quite frankly. What was acceptable back then is not today. I think today however everyone is too sensitive and looking for things to get offended about.
Skyler B
It's funny until it happens to you.
Quimby white chicks is a hilarious movie. So are Dave Chappell's skits about white people. What of it?
+HeatForce I thought white chicks was Corny and unfair to white women & I thought Dave clowned too much he made fun of Blacks more then Whites
Quimby it happens to me all the time with Italian stereotypes and I think it's funny.People have been pussified in this day and age and it's pathetic.
Quimby So I should get offended by Irish stereotypes? Or German? Those are the most predominant lineages I have, but I don't have any issue with it (unless I'm called a Nazi for having German blood). Everyone has been stereotyped, with the possible exception of "WASPs," or "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants."
First off Siamese are Thai not Japanese. I’m Thai and Ive always loved the we are Siamese song and don’t find it racist in any way it’s just a cute song with some Siamese cats.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah is such a wholesome song though
It's a great song. Uncle Remus is one of the most lovable characters in Disney history.
@Austin Thomas well why not it's a great song in a great movie
Song of the south is an amazing movie and very heartfelt, people like to say that the people of color are slaves and this is not true. The movie takes place during the reconstruction era. The movie is also not a documentary it is a movie about an elderly man helping a young child. It is such a shame that it has gotten a bad rep from people who haven’t even seen the movie.
agreed lol
@Kazuma Kiryu the media is filled with a bunch of fear mongering liars
King Louie is “incredibly” racist? He’s just a fun character, not trying to poke fun or anything.
Agree, he's just an over-the-top goofy guy.
I never thought that either. But then again its been so long since I saw the movie and I only saw it as a child so I just saw him as just another talking animal in the movie.
Voiced by Louis Prima. Not racist.
I never thought of King Louie as black. He just sounds like Louie Prima!
EXACTLY I BET IF THEY USED A WHITE MAN IT WOUKD OFFEND WHITE PEOPLE, IF THEY USE A BUDDHIST IT WILL OFFEND BUDDHISTS. IF THRY USE A DOG THEN THEY WOULD BE OFFENDED. welp somebody gotta voice him...
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It's maybe a LITTLE racist to not know that Siam is THAILAND and NOT Japan!!!!!
Or perhaps it's just a little ignorant.
Or Perhaps it's a lack of knowled... NO, IT IS NOTHING BUT RACISM
Thailand was an ally of Japan during WWII (somewhat reluctant)
True tho
If the character of Siamese cats was actually racist, should the people of Siam/Thailand be the ones who feel offended the most? That's what I thought.
However, when I showed the Siamese cats video in a rooms with hundreds of Siamese/Thai teenagers and young adults, everyone.....everyone smiled and laughed. Then I asked them didn't they feel offended by this racism? They all turned quiet and confused.
In my opinion, O’Malley and the Alley Cats was a great gig and paid homage to the sounds and soul of different varieties of music.
Does anyone remember when people were not offended by everything?
Nah, they where usually burned instead
How do you know they weren’t offended back then ,none of us were born then and social media didn’t exist back then, were segregated black people that couldn’t even drink from some water fountains supposed to complain.
Pepperidge Farm remembers
D.I.O For A Second I Thought Your Profile Picture Was A Hairy Vagina Lol
Empire what even is it tho
2k18 and everyone is litterally offended by anything
Well, I'm not.... oh, wait.. there it is, now I'm offended. Goddammit.
Oscar Karlsson I'm like so offended by this comment, we don't get offended by everything!
Lmfao
If you don't Believe that that is true, you must be living under a rock.
2k18 is a basketball game
Noel Sanchez The game is named "NBA 2K18" not just "2K18" If you didn't know
Siamese Cats are from Thailand, not Japan
I'm not sure exactly what that is supposed to mean, nor do I understand how you could be racist against dead people? But if I can guess what you're saying, I would urge you to look at Thailand now. Since the 2014 coup, yes it has been a military dictatorship but its economy is stable and has a high GDP and Human Development Index relative to surrounding countries in SE Asia. Do you mean something else?
Oh, you caught that too... Hey, Mojo, you made good, if not obvious points that were made much more effectively by Honest Trailers of Classic Disney movies, you totally lost the "moral authority" you claimed by confusing Siam (modern Thailand?) with Japan.
Brian C Siam is ancient Thailand
Steve Peterson so it's not racist but just wrong
Micky W How is Siam destroyed??? The governmet literally just changed the country’s name to make it easier to switch side from the axis to the allies so they wouldnt have to pay the war indemnity. Exept the name nothing else was changed. Same monarchy, same government, same capital, same currency and even the territory is the same by the time they changed their name. The word “destroyed” seems awfully unfit because even nowadays plenty of Thais still refer themselves as Siam. Ever heard of “Siam paragon” “Siam square” “Iconsiam” ????? The word Siam isnt 100% destroyed. There are hundreds of thousand of Thai company’s name having siam in their names... Even SCG(the largest and oldest government-run cement company in Thailand) is the abbreviation of Siam cement company. The Thais do love to refer themselves as “Chao Siam” which means people of Siam. Just because its no longer the official name of the country doesnt mean its destroyed lol.
Lol imagine being the generation that gets offended by literally EVERYTHING. You don’t have a shot in hell at happiness.
What's wrong with drawing asian characters with slanted eyes. Should we stop drawing black people with black skin?
Windy, you have offended/triggered so many people by just TALKING ABOUT racial characteristics. How dare you state that black people are black?!?! How dare you reference cultural or historical truths?!?!
It is because SJWs want to own the language, as well as the topics, and most of all the conclusions.
Because nobody has black tar skin. And "black" people possess brown skin, and whites are tan.
Okay, I don't mean literally black skin. I mean the skin of black people. I think you all know that's what I meant...
@@windyvidz4434 No. Some people colored black character's skin tar pitch black. Because they think 'They have black skin compare us'. And that's why you shouldn't draw 'Litteral V slit eyes'. Because nobody fucking has it. It is just exaggerated feature, compare 'white' centered standard.
If you can't admit it, than let's make every Caucasian character's eyes like a deep well hole!!
a deep well hole?
These moments aren't all racist. Nice job Watch Mojo, you continue to diminish the importance of the word by doing videos like this.
PC culture really is a cancer to society.
Hentai Mora then do something about it.
log out next time :/ Hmmm I don't think I can cure that type of strong ignorance. Sure there's some people who may be able to see the light, but some people are just to far gone.
Hentai Mora im not 'ignorant', im saying If you trully hate something, then do something about it. I dont care what you do, just get rid of it.
Heavens Crow Most were racist ...
All that I can say after watching this video and reading some of the comments - this world is so f*cked up.
Yep, super fucked. Maybe it's just the klansman who decide to open their mouths on a platform like this.
... you can't have a Disney world & be this stupid... I mean, you could. But you'd still look pretty stupid.
Also, I want to meet as many Asian characters as I can during my trip to Disney on my birthday. I mean, for my kid of course. No really, it'd be good for her. She sees white ppl all the time. Not so much Asian. My poor kid almost looks like she's infatuated w/ her own race... She's still a kid tho. Plz help her, earthlings 🤗🤞🖖
@Anastasija savic, you’re just figuring that out now?
Anastasija Savić
Убише нас "политичка коректност" ! Некад су ови цртаћи имали душу, а данас..
Welcome to the club pal!
The #1 racist cartoon clip is 'Dumbo(1941) "Song of the Roustabouts". It's black people working like slaves 2 build a circus 4 dumbo and they sing, "We work all day, we work all night, we never learned to read or write, we're happy-hearted Roustabouts". THere's more lyrics including 'Grab that rope you hairy ape'....THATS Y IT SHOULD BE #1(And it wasnt even mentioned)
Using a jazzy tone and slang is not racist, it’s using actual culture to give their characters more personality
Yeah, is Sebastian the Crab racist against Jamaicans just because of his exaggerated accent? Or what about all the exaggerated Australian accents in "The Rescuers Down Under" or the exaggerated Cockney accents in "101 Dalmatians" and "Mary Poppins"?
Nightfall - in that respect, I agree. The songs wouldn't have been as memorable or nearly as good Had they not been done in that way. I for one think that the King Louis scene, song, and character would have been so much better if it had been voiced by Armstrong. That would have been amazing. It's sad that it would have been seen as any means of disrespect. In my opinion that would've been a real treasure. I love Louis Armstrong.
Now, in the case of the depictions of human characters, all of the examples are indeed VERRY inappropriate and honestly just plain wrong.
But, for anthropomorphised animal characters it is just part of what makes them rich in their diversity and development. They are, afterall, charicatures of and not a real representation.
ok but drawing black people with extremely exaggerated features is racist.
Nightfall IKR! This is pathetic. Taking inspiration from certain culture, using slang, and having a black guy voice someone is WAY different from racism.
kat, I agree. And I also believe the depiction of the Asian themed animal designs could've been more subtle and not sooo overly exaggerated as well as the way they were voiced. But cartoon versions of humans are almost always over the top. There's a difference between stylization and exploitation. But sad to say, if one tried they could also say that the design of the characters from Moana were overly stereotypical and racist, and find a way to be offended by them as well. Unfortunately, the ones who find a way to be offended by everything, diminish the validity of the argument against depictions that truly are racist. We, as in society, need to find a way to remedy that aspect of the argument in order to be able to fix the truly offensive issues.
Watchmojo: HOW DID WE MISS THESE RACIST SCENES?
Also Watchmojo: These racist scenes were quickly removed, so modern audiences wouldn’t see them.
Stirring up racial tension were there was none before = profit. It doesn't hurt that this video is trending #3
Jasper Trip - quickly removed? If you consider a few decades "quickly", then I guess you're right.
It was the triggered Als and Jesses that petitioned for the censorship of these American classics in the late 90's.
Very true
The cats were not Japanese. They were from Siam which is now known as Thailand.
Exactly allot of this digging is exaggerated to be politically correct yet these films were made years ago
Still a racist clip!
@@JaneDoe-ci3gj I doubt they indented racism but i can see why it would be frowned upon ahah
@@JaneDoe-ci3gj Having been to Thailand, not sure why you write that. Pretty dead on.
@@JaneDoe-ci3gj 'They could use a string for an eye mask and when they look videos on their ipad it looks like an imax' 'Bodied' 2018
I guess, if you look for something to be offended by, you'll find it. Good for you. Your better than everybody else.
Aristo Cats "everybody wants to be a cat" was the best part of the whole film to me especially when the buck tooth cat song his solo part. As a kid you don't see or think race...you see something funny and goofy and laugh at it not knowing it was wrong
100% agree!
If you don't see anything racist about it when you're a kid, that's fine. If you don't see anything racist with it when you're an adult, you should brush up on the history of racial stereotyping
@@steuzirocks why you coming under all the comments saying the same thing
@@steuzirocks bru adults are just kids with bigger toys duuuuuuu 🤣
@Presley Lu lad it’s not meant to be racist.
Ok here’s what I use to determine racist intentions:
-Listen to the song itself no video. If you hear like racist words or whatever, then yea it’s probably racist.
- intentions. Was the purpose of the song solely to be racist? Or was it trying to be funny by poking at culture a little.
- think about what’s really like REALLY racist. If I said white people can’t play basketball, that’s not racist it’s true I should know. But really a black cat with a trumpet is racist?
Louis Armstrong is black right. But that’s part of what makes him great. Bru Louis Armstrong being white 😐 it’s just not as good.
Lad my point is some of these songs are meant to reference culture not make fun of it. Besides you can’t get mad at the way that cat plays the trumpet. He’s my bro
Get it, bc mr cat ._______.
It isnt racist to draw asians with tilted eyes when they actually have it. It makes them unique looking (which they are)
same and have you noticed when they a show with only white people everyone freaks out and then when they use people with diffent races everyone said "it is racist"
@SuperPikachu Jexs yes. That's called stereotypes. It's actually very funny in my opinion to have stereotypical characters in cartoons.
Surprisingly, I really like the Siamese cat song and I'm Vietnamese. Don't know why. their eyes are really unique and the song has some asian vibe
SuperPikachu Jexs yah accept East Asian eyes aren’t slanted. They are usually horizontal, but are often slimmer. Not tilted in weird exaggerated ways
Gøran Engen I’m Irish-Asian, and I find all these scenes extremely funny. They should have kept most of them in
Welcome to 2018 everybody, the year where the word racism and stereotypes mean the same thing.
IT IS THE SAME THING YOU PIECE OF SH*T NAZI
Dylan daniel antonio Galaz Oyarzun
racism is when people think that there is a difference in rights between races
Stereotypes is a common belief of a certain race
Do some research and go back to school before commenting punkass
Erm... I mean I think humerous stereotypes is more what is being portrayed...
Fine line for everything eh???....
This racist rhetoric is 🐃💩 I don’t see anything racist on this cartoons, just go and check what’s the definition of a cartoon of a person, the music they talk about, it was amazing, the historical places or names in part were created base on Arabic tales , you guys need to know the stories behind this Disney cartoons, Aladdin is person name created by beduins on the desert, etc etc. Stop the 🐃💩of racists, don’t feed bad feelings to the kids or immature adults.
"How did we not notice the the first time around?"
Because we weren't offended by anything back in the day
You misspelled "everything" there. [insert cheeky grin]
True
exactly what i thought
Or maybe becaus the oppressed minorities who these examples targeted didn’t get to have a voice back then
Luna Veil Thank you!! Took the words right out of my mouth!
But, who honestly gives that much of a shit.
I am the Black Wizards apparently all of us who watched this video.
David Glasspool goddammit you're right
Not true actually. A lot of people, included myself, watched out of curiosity. I don't care at all.
Aaron lies!!!!
People who it affects?
Saying slanted eyes on an Asian character is racist is like saying dark skin on an African character is racist.
Thats pretty racist of mojo
it's about as racist as making a white character white, or as offensive as a soldier having a gun haha
Not all black people are dark. So if they were to make every character dark I would take that as racist . We come in different shades not just one.
Racist if the character doesn't match your particular color? They make white characters with the same color and we come in different shades too. Are you trying to be offended?
There’s nothing racist about giving cartoons slanted eyes or dark colored skin. It’s racist because they EXAGGERATED their features to *purposefully* mock them.