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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 113 | Is Disney PROBLEMATIC? Racism in Disney+?

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

With the recent release of Disney+, progressive criticism of old Disney movies has been reignited. So what should we do with media that is culturally outdated? Are these movies racist? And most importantly, are they okay for children to watch? Get your Black Rifle Coffee for the holidays: visit https://www.BlackRifleCoffee.com/LAUREN and enter the code LAUREN for 20% OFF your first order! Save money on your QUIP toothbrush gift sets TODAY. Go to https://GetQuip.com/CHEN to get your first refill for FREE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:07.0

Today we're going to be talking about Disney's apparently problematic programming.

0:14.3

Now since Disney Plus launched, I feel like a lot of people, myself included, have been taking a bit of

0:19.4

a trip down memory lane and watching some of the old cartoons that we grew up with because after all

0:24.7

nostalgia is a heck of a thing. You know how when you were a kid that Santa's workshop

0:28.8

your parents took you to seemed like such a magical place and you had so much fun there it felt like it was

0:34.0

literally too perfect to be real but when you look back at the pictures from

0:38.1

those trips you can't help but notice that the Santa looks kind of seedy sort of drunk and the workshop was actually just the abandoned barn outside town with some fake snow and a pregnant teenager dressed as an elf.

0:51.5

The point I'm trying to make is that sometimes the things

0:54.1

we love as kids aren't actually as great as we remember them to be. So today we're

0:59.1

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