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Lady and the Tramp siamese Cats

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  1. Wanda

    Their Animated for a reason!.. Their supposed to be funny and cute! More than what is happening for real in the world today!.. I don’t know what part of this Country you came from, but really girl! Go blow smoke elsewhere and leave what has and still does to children and adults today alone! I still watch them!

    If you fine them offense, Well… Felisha! Don’t watch them!

  2. Patricia

    I think this is over thinking at best. Just leave the past in the past. People don’t want to be reminded of ugly things we know better now. Exceptions to society norms today should be viewed for what they are negative unhelpful criticism.

  3. Jen

    What happened to the you don’t like it don’t watch it. Not everyone’s opinion needs to be heard I grew up watching this stuff and at the time no idea it was racist now I understand. But it’s not like these cartoons shape who you are! I did not turn into a racist person for watching these cartoons! They are CARTOONS!!!! Times have changed since these cartoons were made and released! Just like the John Wayne movies should we start attacking the western movies as well?! If you don’t like a movie don’t watch it! Disney and all these other Networks shouldn’t listen to the people that get the attention. Keep doing what you’re doing and people are gonna either like your movies or not. Can’t please everyone.

  4. Jon Carry

    She thinks the Jungle Book’s King Louie is racist? So she sees a black man when she looks at a cartoon ape?! Me thinks she is the racist.

  5. charles

    this “student” obviously has much more learning to do….

  6. Vicki

    Doesn’t the song from jungle book say man’s red fire and man’s red flower?

  7. Christopher Tucker

    So instead of seeing these films through the lens of learning we choose, yet again to die on a hill that simply has no reason to exist. Close down the Holocaust Museum, we all know it happend, but it makes me feel icky inside.

  8. Joe Foss

    Who is this moron? Why should we listen to her?

  9. Pam

    First of all she really needs to grow up. These films were made at a different time when not everyone was so sensitive to everything. Does she curl up in a ball with her blanket when things don’t go her way. It’s like one atheist ruining a nativity scene for a small town and the atheist lives 100s of miles away. I am so over everything being about race…..everything. these are made for entertainment. If you are that sensitive go live in your cocoon. Block the world out. In some ways we need to go back about 20 to 30 years ago. Not removing Historical monuments because its racist…..its a part of our history…deal with it. Everything has to be politically correct….you don’t like it..feel free to leave. We dont want you here. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, mine may go against yours, but I am entitled to it. You can disagree and move on… people dont do that they focus on something they dont agree with and cant move on. Personally
    I love song of the south… its story takes place on a plantation like gone with the wind and slaves….it happened. We learned from out mistakes. Move on. I don’t like things about Disney, but I dont go to the parks that week or month…whatever or dont watch the series or let my kids watch certain things. It’s your choice. It’s her opinion, I disagree and am moving on. Sorry so lonf

  10. GregR

    This girl seems to be looking for attention by pointing out what she considers racism and other such nonsense in Disney animated features. I don’t get what she finds unacceptable about the spaghetti scene in Lady and the Tramp. Why didn’t she have a problem with the buzzards with Liverpool accents in The Jungle Book?

  11. This student has airtime for voicing an option on Disney, I’m wounded how she exaggerates though and most of its fabricated and blown out of proportion.

  12. JByron

    Simple, solution for Lauren Roberston, if you don’t want to get your feelings hurt quit watching something that might be controversial. Problem solved, and if you do happen to watch something that might I’m sure you can find some tissues at the local Wally World.

  13. Gary

    There is an amazing invention if something offends you on television. It is called the OFF button! Quit trying to impose your views on everyone else and I won’t try to impose mine on you!!!

  14. Darren

    I think this “student” has some major problems with accuracy. How can she make broad sweeping generalizations about the meaning behind lyrics that she has misquoted? That’s dangerous as well as ignorant.
    I’d suggest reading “WHOS AFRAID OF SONG OF THE SOUTH”. Its a great book that talks about (among many other issues) how Walt worked with the NAACP to make sure the film was racially sensitive. Despite his best intentions and careful action we’ll never see Song of the South in American theatres again.

  15. Dan

    Get over it. I think you are horrendously offensive. People like you are never happy unless you are making others depressed.

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  17. Reese

    Then don’t watch the Disney films if they are offensive to you. What are u going to do next, berate “Gone with the Wind”? Its part of history, no matter bad or good. Walt Disney made films appropriate for those times.

  18. Edward Noyes

    Then simply don’t watch! Disney is awesome hands down. “Damn!” Everybody is so sensitive to everything. American has many race issues. In short, face racism upfront in your face, not from the mountain top.

    “I am person color”

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