“Harmful” Classic Disney Movies Resurface, May Be Axed in Historic Purge

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  1. Done with Disney!!!

    1. H

      I’m with you! They have ruined what Walt built. Very sad.

    2. Sue

      Well, seems like they’ll have to get rid of anything that’s done before 2020. Because there’s gonna be something wrong with every single show. Program movie that someone can complain about.

    3. Buzz

      Lady and the tramp has a warning?!

    4. Hi

      I’m about to be if this crap doesn’t stop they need to fire iger

  2. But they can release a movie about a young girl getting impregnated by satan!😡

    1. A Voice of Reason

      You sound like an insane person… seek help.

      1. sherry

        Patty is the sane one! I agree with her! You need help to say she needs help!

      2. Sandy

        They should bring them all back. Including Song of the South.
        Put disclaimers on them and if people don’t want to watch, they don’t have to.
        Tired of whining people ruining things for everyone else, because they are offended. Who cares if they are offended.

    2. Bill Green

      Which movie does satan impregnate a young girl??

      1. Jennifer

        It called Pauline. They ordered it for D+.

        1. Joe Umiker

          That show was ordered for Disney+ in Germany. In Europe Disney+ combines content that would only air on Hulu in the USA.

      2. Joe Umiker

        She is referring to “Little Demon” an animated comedy which aired on FXX on 2022. While FXX is owned by Disney the channel isn’t for kids. It is intended, and marketed towards males 18 to 30ish. While the main character does get impregnated by Satan I’m not sure if she is young a young girl at the time as I haven’t seen it. It was streaming on Hulu as well but was pulled when Disney purged a lot of titles from Hulu and Disney+. Not sure itsbmy cup of tea, but then again I can choose not to watch it, or to watch it, as this is America. Any way here is the shows description.

        “An animated horror-comedy series centering on Laura, a reluctant mother who was impregnated by Satan 13 years ago, and Chrissy, her anti-Christ daughter who has just come into her demonic powers. Try as they might to live an ordinary life in Delaware, Md., the two are constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter’s soul. Chrissy must also navigate the chaos that is junior high school, while Laura struggles to assimilate to the rhythms of small-town life”

        1. Thank you for your sound judgement, and for taking the time to get your facts straight

        2. King

          How about a parent takes time to sit and watch with the child. See if the lid has any questions. Bet you a buck fifty. The kids doesn’t even pick up on what ever the grown up mind is seeing…

        3. Sarge

          1) thanks for the explanation on both the channel and the show because 2) that sounds hilarious

      3. r

        Pauline 18-year-old- accidentally becomes pregnant from a one-night stand with Lukas, who, as it turns out, is the devil himself. The pregnancy gives Pauline supernatural powers and an epic battle between good and evil ensues.

    3. Sora

      Thank you for being an example of why people need to take mental health seriously. That movie doesn’t exist.

      1. GPN

        Um, there’s an official full description of the movie just above your comment. Not seeing things that do exist is nearly as bad as seeing things that don’t. Maybe you need the mental health visit.

      2. Thank you for being an example on why people need to take mental health seriously. Some people that believe movies don’t exist when they actually do exist need to be medicated. I already made the Dr. appointment for you. And yes the Dr does exist.

      3. Erik Jeffries

        Yes, the month of June IS the prime example of why Mental Health illness should be taken seriously.

    4. sherry

      I agree!

    5. HG

      Exactly.

    6. Totally agree Patty! I’m done with Disney. So sick of their woke nonsense.

    7. I agree Patty! I’m done with Disney and their woke nonsense. Pure evil!

    8. Sue

      You must be young. The first movie that came to mind was mia farrow in rosemary’s baby… Not produced by disney, but it was the number one movie of that year, and everybody wanted to watch it, no whiny complait’s

    9. faackanders2

      Most likely on Hulu not Disney+. Beside it is fiction.

  3. Mary sunshine

    This is why I bought the dvds of my faveroite disney classics. I can watch them any time I want. In peace without being lectured about how horrible and dangerous they are. Disney is committing sucide.

    1. Bella

      I agree, and we are buying the movies that we want so there is no “Woke” backlash from anyone! Oh brother, people get offended by anything these days. Disney is sinking faster than the Titanic and this will bite them in the butt!

  4. Pamela

    This is getting beyond rediculous. History is doomed to repeat itself if it does not create discussion. Within discussion we learn. I have grown up for over four decades as a proud Disney girl. I was a cast member a Walt Disney World Florida. My house and body are covered in Classic Disney. I am now ashamed at Disney and the steps they are taking. Be inclusive, yes, absolutely. But you are also destroying the artists that put their hearts and souls into making such beautiful works of art. It was an Era of time. So discuss and educate, yet celebrate the steps that have been made rather than erasing. Our childhoods deserve to be remembered as well.

    1. Jacob W

      Where is Song of the South with this message?

      1. RonS

        In my library.
        I bought it overseas a few years ago.

      2. Amjmelb

        Long hidden away. Had to buy it from Japan years ago to be able to watch it.

        Removing art, from decades past doesn’t make the world a “safer place”. We’re not talking about removing Mein Kampf here, something that was intended to spread hate. We’re talking about removing things that have become offensive, no, in bad taste at worst, now.

        Many of the things being banished from view weren’t made to create an environment of hate or to cause distress. But unfortunately now, no discussion is wanted as to why things might be seen a different way, but simply hide it away likemit never happened.

      3. Jay

        Have a copy of the movie on DVD watched the other day I see nothing wrong with the movie. I understand the movie takes place right after the civil war and reconstruction. The actors are all great and shows what the past was like. Should we cancel Roots ? That movie shows far worst depictions of slavery yet it’s not canceled. Should let people decide to watch or not should be a freedom of choice and not this big censor on content made years ago when society was different.

        1. faackanders2

          The tar baby comic scene with the rabbit wanting to beat the tar baby for not replying back “Howdy” was pretty bad.

          1. RickTR

            Pretty funny!

      4. Dusty

        Oh Lord, don’t give them any more ideas!!

      5. Erik Jeffries

        The leftist DemoKKKrats love to silence the Black voice! It’s how they still keep the Black American down.

    2. Anne

      Amen

    3. Lisa

      TOTALLY AGREE!!!!
      It’s gone WAY past ridiculous!
      Parents NEED to be the ones to decide if a child watches or not, especially if they have had the pleasure of watching the original movies and actually LOVED them.

  5. David

    This is why you hold on to your DVDs and blurays.

  6. Katherine Denude

    1984

  7. The Disney Company has been stripped by the wokeness within its ranks and has become a pathetic blank face .

    1. A Voice of Reason

      You poor baby… soft people like you crying about woke need to dry your tears

      1. DrPhill

        Let me guess, you’re a slackjawedBud Light drinker.

        1. A Voice of Reason

          Technically no, but it does make a refreshing enema.

      2. Phil

        Disney has destroyed itself.

      3. Ted

        Dude, what’s your issue? It sounds like you are some adrift loser who has to use an alias because their talking points are losing or can’t support your stance.

      4. Laura

        The original definition of woke is being aware of the struggles of African Americans. If you wear s white hood just come out and say it.

      5. BonBon

        Well if you want to troll normal people than you must love the guy on drag at the fairy godmother boutique

      6. BonBon

        Go kick rocks

      7. Jack Sparrow

        Groomer alert.

      8. Gg

        Stop existing

    2. Laura

      The definition of woke is being aware of the struggles of African Americans. If you walk around in a white hood just say so.

      1. sherry

        Oh my word, fraid not!

      2. RickTR

        The definition of woke is thinking you know more about blacks than they do, and it’s your job to stand up for them. And if you wear a BLM hoodie, just say so.

      3. Thank you! To Laura that is.

      4. Christopher

        Not now it isn’t, lady. Today Woke is broke and means radical social agendas that the bulk of the populace of the United States and world in general don’t agree with.

  8. Leah

    You forgot the freakiest movie of all: Return to Oz

    1. faackanders2

      Yes. Thought it would be so much better. Had potential.

  9. Chris

    I am so done with delicate little snowflakes. If a movie or show triggers your delicate sensibilities, maybe TV and movies are not for you. Maybe you need to sit in your bedroom, in the fetal position rocking back and forth.

    1. A Voice of Reason

      Your crying sounds pretty bad there, little baby. Go get your bottle and blanket from Ron DeathSantis

      1. James

        I will just leave this here: Song of the SOUTH…live action and animation, some of th best work of the day and Disney wishes to censor it. now how many of you snowflakes are triggered…

        1. Bella

          We’re getting this one! I cannot wait to see it. The songs are awesome!!! Classic Disney.

        2. faackanders2

          You can still ride splash mountain in Tokyo Disneyland, and I doubt they will replace it unless the ride perminently breaks down, since now they have the unique ride with increased historical demand.

      2. Jack Sparrow

        Projection alert

      3. Anne

        Who hurt you?

    2. Or maybe they should stick to their super hero movies

    3. AJ

      Just guessing that you threw a tantrum over the election results and were too scared to get a vaccine. Sound close, snowflake?

  10. DrPhill

    Let me guess, you’re a slackjawedBud Light drinker.

  11. Randy Nocks

    Peter pan, the aristocats, swiss family robinson? Seriously Disney? You do have issues! Great classic mivies we grew up with. A absolutely nithing wrong with them. We love these movies! And so must you because wveryone of them has a rode at disney world and theres always a huge line for all of them. And no one has issues with these but you!

    1. I completely agree!! I grew up on classic Disney! Don’t destroy the films, there is nothing wrong with them except they were made in a different time! Educated parents should be able to teach their children that or make the decision to not let them view them but not to ruin it all for those of us and our children that can handle these things with respect!!

      1. RickTR

        The problem is the Stories Matter team, a group of losers who’s only job is to go through all the classic Disney material and find something wrong with it. If they don’t find anything wrong, they don’t have a job. A group of woke black women being paid to think for you.

    2. faackanders2

      just warning labels saying/acknowledging standards were different back then.

  12. This means that you’ll never ever ever see “Song of the South” on Disney plus.

    1. Chris

      I own a legit copy. Im good

  13. Jim

    Umm there absolutely IS something wrong with Aristocats. The piano playing Siamese cat is a blatantly racist Asian stereotype. Has not aged well, to put it mildly. Not that I’m saying the movie should be removed – not at all. I don’t believe in censorship or whitewashing (so to speak) history. It was my daughter’s fave film for awhile. We discussed that character. But to claim there’s no issue at all with some of these films by modern standards is ridiculous.

    1. Janelle

      Exactly, they’re not removing the movies, they’re just putting disclaimers on them. They’re just letting people know the movies have outdated stereotypes.

    2. Why is he an Asian stereotype? Maybe he’s just Asian? Give me a freaking break

    3. Thank Jim. So true.

    4. BonBon

      Siamese cats were worshipped and having had them they are sneaky little adorable plotters. Very smart. So just don’t watch it. Allow the rest of us to enjoy it.

    5. As I said in an earlier post, it is up to parents to decide what their children view. Do not ruin classic films for everyone! Siamese cats are in fact asian sir! And for the time that film was made it was appropriate. Teach your children, don’t censor everything!!

    6. faackanders2

      Agree, and it is only a warning label.

    7. Jack Sparrow

      Snowflake sighting.

  14. Jose Mana

    Disney will throw a warning up on a classic like Lady and the Tramp to bend to the extreme left while pumping out content depicting homosexual and transexual themes without any warning. Clown world.

  15. Christine

    Just leave it alone. The past is the past. We learn from it and move the hell on with life. This new cancel culture is disgusting. I am ashamed of humanity. Everyone has the right to their own opinions. You just ABSOLUTELY DO NOT have the right to force your opinions on me! So get over yourselves and let it be.

    1. Thank you! To Laura that is.

    2. Please Christine read your own advice & take it & stop capital letter yelling at me. Thank you.

  16. I have all the copies of the worst ones, and they are backed up from VHS to digital so it will never be lost. Good luck getting rid of all the copies.
    Walt would be Dissapointed in everyone working at Disney.

  17. Rich

    (quote)
    Though the company did not remove these classic films at the time, there are some who speculate that Disney may make the move to begin removing some of the less-popular classic films that it has deemed offensive during its historic content purge.
    (/quote)

    If Disney’s goal is to limit exposure to toxic ideas, wouldn’t it be more effective to remove the more popular titles, rather than the ones nobody watches anyway?

    Instead, Disney’s move is to do something visible that doesn’t hurt Disney’s bottom line. The very definition of virtue signaling.

  18. Christeena

    Why is it every time someone gets their feelings hurt or is offended by something the rest of the world needs to change? Part of being an adult and acting like one is to know when to walk away when it’s not for you. What I like in a movie is likely to be totally different in what the next person prefers. So glad I have these classics on DVD since it appears others get to dictate what they feel is appropriate for me and my family.

    1. Shirley

      I couldn’t agree more with what you are saying.

  19. Linda

    Disney offends me!…done…yes, glad I still have the good classics…didn’t warp my self-esteem

  20. Tony

    Oh I agree 💯, Disney supposed to be family friendly but we can’t even protect our kids from that crap Disney thinks is ok

  21. DF

    This is noyhing but blatant, nadulterated, woke, idiocy. That’s all it is. A pandering effort to the loud mouthed radical fringe and it has to stop. It’s time as a society that we stop giving special dispensation to the lunatic fringe and stop giving their incessant whining and bullying threats credence. It’s time to shove our foot so far up their liberal/prog asses that not even a board certified proctologist with a jackhammer can remove it.

    1. Can’t you see you are the lunatic fringe, just on the other side? I agree woke is an anti American virus, but hating the other side makes you just as bad as they are

      1. Thanks for being the shining example we all should strive to be. I don’t know where this country would be without you. Thank you for your service.

  22. Allen

    Boo hoo cry me a river if old movies offend an entitled and self indugent generation. Ultimately it’s Disney virtue signaling to new age liberals (socialists and communists). Have faith in reason and logic, it is a self solving problem. Depopulation of the less intelligent is easy when they happily commit infanticide and mutilate their junk which helps them refrain from procreation meanwhile the other side of the coin will have 2.5-3 children per couple. That’s why they have to recruit

    1. Honey, there are no socialist or communist, get away from the fox news

      1. Wow! Out of all those comments there were 3 of us who were sane, intelligent adults. That’s scary folks, real scary!

  23. It’s amazing that Disney will push there agenda on children while erasing content that doesn’t fit there narrative. This is why I no longer subscribe.

  24. Dawn

    Hmm. I am thinking Disney keeps talking about this for a very savvy business move.
    Most people want what they have been told they might not be able to get/have.
    People will find ways to watch/get these movies.
    Smart move, Disney.
    Smart move.

  25. Darla

    Please don’t try to erase history. Let us be Americans and make our own choices. Don’t take that away from us.

  26. Jeff

    What’s next? Sewing little yellow stars on certain people’s shirt fronts?

  27. I’m ready to uninclude my Disney+ subscription. This is your trigger warning.

    1. faackanders2

      Go ahead.

  28. San

    If they don’t like the, shows movies, documentaries or whatever then they need not watch them.
    Don’t discount everyone else that doesn’t have problems with the content. The world changes and so does the media. They should leave it the way it was and stop changing things for those who should get a life and stop complaining. This is the USA…. freedom….m

  29. JJ

    All I have to say is there are some people in this world that need to get a life and get rid of the negative attitudes they find the smallest things to pick at. I think those are intent on trying to bring Disney down

  30. Hank

    Stop with the censorship, we can decide what we want to see.
    If it offends me, I won’t watch it, Disney job is to make movies and maintain the library for everyone.

  31. What a hyprotical company, you remove the classics for bringing in gay, nonbinary, homosexual content..
    I will encourage all I know to dump Disney
    Pathetic! I will dump Disney products and channels

  32. Sue

    Just erase everything that everyone does not agree on! Simple right?? If we erase history, it won’t happen again simple. Right ?? Give simple people content that does not make them think too hard or remember anything unpleasant. Sheep content please!!!

  33. Jason

    Wow humanity has takin a turn for the worse good thing we run out of o2 in a little over a million yrs from now cant handle what we will become then i recognize myself as a fruit fly now all the fruity people out there sucked the humanity outa me

  34. Jason

    You let one fruit loop pillow humper have say and now look at what we humans have become

  35. Mtdtmd

    No, people have destroyed Disney

  36. Jruggf

    “This was wrong then and it’s wrong now.” When “it was a different time ” no longer flies and you have to pretend everyone was evil 50 years ago. But of course everything we do now is righteous and pure, and people 50 years from now won’t find anything objectionable. Frigging tools!

  37. faackanders2

    Adding warnings is not purging. Song of south went to valult and they will currently not release it. They are not burning all of them. In the long term future there may be a resurgence; especially people start thing it was much worse than it really was.

  38. faackanders2

    Go ahead.

  39. Dusty

    Lady and the Tramp? Where could there possibly anything wrong with that? Or the Aristocrats? These people need to back up and take a look at them selves if they actually see something wrong or cruel. This is pitiful and going too far.

  40. Matt

    Love Walt and Roy and what they built… But it may be time to turn my back on the Disney of today. I believe Walt would be ashamed of what his passion has become.

  41. Trisha

    I am sorry….I consider myself a Disney girl & am proud that I grew up on all the Disney classics without havi g a warning shown b4 the movies. All this crap is going to ruin Disney. What made Disney great & fun….its all going away because of political correctness. Peoples feelings anymore are so easily hurt its insane. Growing up I never found anything harmful…Disney is starting to disappoint rather then make me happy….world is becoming a scary and sad place….

  42. Tony

    The only harmful Diney movies are the recent ones with adult themes and pushing alphabet lifestyles.

  43. The word historical and purge should never be used in the same sentence. Under any circumstances.

  44. Haven

    Some heavily subversive stuff in Swiss Family Robinson and Lady and the Tramp ….. Sounds like something you would come up with smoking a ton of weed and watching Fantasia …..

  45. Awake

    Any person who believes their lives or ideas or feelings are harmed by a piece of art is a buffoon. That goes for the left and right equally.

    Full stop.

  46. James

    But yet current homosexual activity in the children’s cartoons and movies is allowed to continue? We don’t watch this anymore and Walt would be horrified with today’s Disney!

  47. Suzanne

    People have the choice to choose and watch what they want on any channel. If you don’t like something, don’t watch it. I don’t watch shows that are scary or about murder or evil. I don’t like explicit sex scenes and those are even in shows that teens watch. I love Disney and have since I was a child. I don’t watch everything on their channels- just what I want. Same with all streamers. We all have choices and the freedom to choose.

  48. Cheryl C

    This is the further “de-disnification” of Disney. Removing content for the whiny 3% and adding crappy IP rides and attractions to the parks. I’m pretty much done with WDW, but will visit Disneyland again.

  49. Gary

    Classic Disney movies must be kept at all costs I do not give a hoot what Woke wants!

  50. Gary

    Make that original movies!

  51. Ridley S.

    I swear Disney is getting more pathetic by the minute. This so-called offensive content is part of history. We learn about it in history class. You cannot hide history. And now they’re ruining Splash Mountain by changing it into Princess and the Frog. Disney is just shooting themselves in the foot

  52. Kathy Kelly

    If these classic movies are upsetting to you—— don’t watch them. If you children are playing any type of video game, like that is not rated E then they are watching and learning a lot more harmful items than what these movies do.

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