Yeah, I would agree that this film shouldn’t be profited off of or kept up as “just” another piece of the streaming service, waiting to expose regular customers (especially kids) to it.

That is a fuck ton as a base wage as a server anywhere. Tipped minimum in NY state just went up to 10. And almost noone makes more than the tipped minimum anywhere. Even the cut pay works out to 52k/year if its a full time gig assuming 40 hours a week (and restaurant jobs are almost never 40 hours a week, I spent…

“Men who are there to look at women,”

As a conservative, fuck you. This is not nearly the same thing. A statue isnt a crime. A statue is a social symbol for a community. Statues are to materialize history/remembrance/reflection/etc in a topic. If that topic is no longer relevant to the majority (remember, we live in a democracy) then the majority can…

How can you sit there with a straight face and call a restaurant named after tits a sports bar? I bet you just loooooove the wings too. Don’t be ashamed. You wanted to see some boobs and feel smugly superior about your golf watching. Own it. 

“Playboy Bunny pay has also apparently been cut from $40 an hour to $25.”

I’m guessing their accountants are the assholes complaining about the service. If patrons are drinkless and foodless, they’re a) not patrons, they’re loiterers and b) not making anyone any money.

You assume he accurately presented the stories of people he considered inferior and barely human.

WHICH part of the crows is racist?

That song is horrifyingly racist, but as we can see with the Washington football team people don’t pay much attention to racism against Native Americans.

The author was a white man.

The ‘Uncle Remus’ stories were written by a white man.

Do you have a source for that?

The NAACP was not happy with it:

Pretty sure my Grandma had it too.  She wasn’t a die hard Disney fan but she was a diehard racist. 

Okay. But your notion that “it might be considered racist today” but was “progressive for the time” still doesn’t hold water.

Is there an argument to be made about the value of Song of the South? Sure. Maybe. But that doesn’t change the historical context.

Right. Of course you didn’t see the racism. Because it didn’t apply to you. And there’s the inherent problem. White America regularly discounts issues of racism that don’t seem like a big deal to them because we explicitly don’t have to deal with it. We can just look at SotS as a pretty, happy dancing animal movie.…

Dear Disney,

The NAACP released a statement of condemnation upon its release. Time Magazine similarly commented on how it would provoke outrage. Theaters were picketed, black newspapers wrote excoriating reviews.

Just because black Americans and the black media was largely ignored in the time doesn’t mean that the criticism is a…

That actually is Christian Bale, he’s going real method to play Berkley’s husband in her life time original movie.

Elizabeth Berkley’s husband looks like a knock-off Christian Bale in that photo.