Lawlight said:
JWeinCom said:
Not exactly. The evidence for Disney being anti-semitic is pretty sparse. There is like one or two cartoons with Mickey dressed as a Hasidic Jew or something.
The creator of Goofy also claimed that Walt was a member of a pro-Nazi organization. But, the two of them had a long history of animosity and legal disputes. Nobody else has corroborated these accounts.
Disney did attend meetings of an antisemitic organization, the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. The organization was largely anti-semitic, but it's mission statement was against Communism and Fascism, which Disney was very much against.
Disney employed a lot of Jews at his studios. There are some accounts of off color jokes, but on the whole, Disney seemed to treat them well. Several animators have spoken against the allegations. His daughter dated a Jewish guy, reportedly with no objections from walt. He made a bunch of donations to Jewish charities. Interestingly, Walt was named man of the year by B'nai B'rith, a prominent Jewish organization, in 1955. Before giving him the award, they investigated the claims of anti-semitism and judged them to be unfounded. Of Walt's biographers, none of them seemed to believe him to be anti-semitic.
Ultimately, this kind of shows why Disney dropped Pewdiepie. Because things are often blown out of proportion, and something like associating with anti-semites (or even perceived anti-semites) can spark a rumor that people will believe for over 50 years. The evidence suggests that Disney was not anti-semitic.
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Mickey dressed as a Hasidic Jew is anti-semitic?
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I'm really not interested in that thing you do. You know, where you take one sentence of a post, ignore the tone and context copletely, and use it to try and make it sound like I said something that I did not, so you can feel like you made some sort of point.
If, in the future, you gain the attention span to read more than one sentence, and are able to construct a response that demonstrates that you read and comprehended my post, feel free to respond.
Otherwise, please just don't respond. There are plenty of people who are willing to waste time on that sort of thing, but I'm not. I'm 100% sure I already explained this.
