Mr. Walt Disney

To me, one of the greatest men that has ever lived. There are few better examples of living the American dream than of Walt turning a Florida swampland into a multi-billion dollar company that owns Theme Parks, Radios stations, and even multiple tv channels. Giroux's main arguments are petty and an one of the multiple attempts to tear down the powerful and dominant legacy that Walt has left behind. In one of Giroux's points he asserts how racist the movies he made are because antagonists in the story will typically have an accent or be foreign in one way or another. Keeping in mind that almost all of Disney's work is aimed at children, it is absurd to think that consciously or subconsciously children are led to believe that foreigners are the bad guys or have evil intentions. Children are very impressionable at a young age but, they could not possibly have the cognitive abilities to process and understand that because they are not white males that they are automatically evil. I have been to Disneyland seven times in my life and have seen or own just about every Disney movie ever created but do not feel more racist or predisposed to racism as any other average kid my age. Real racism is what we see in some middle east countries in this day and age. Radios that must be permanently kept on, school systems with mandatory curriculum and posters all lining the streets, all condemning the west(especially America). These children are brought up to HATE Americans without any just cause other than the fact we are American. Walt Disney has not created a generation of racists. Hating Jafar just because he is Indian would make me and Walt racist. Children dislike him and other villains in the story because we see the message they are trying to promote. One of either a dark world, world domination, or other negative notions that children identify as bad. Not the villain him or herself.