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[I <3 Katamari]

rofl.

I love VGCats. Fuck the haters who check it every week just to make threads about it saying it sucks.

 

[Matlock]

VG Cats is rarely funny, but this one made me :lol

That's not entirely accurate: Walt Disney was an anti-semite.

 

[meltpotato]

rofl.

I love VGCats. Fuck the haters who check it every week just to make threads about it saying it sucks.

you bring up a good point. VG and PA posts would be great insta-bans.

That's not entirely accurate: Walt Disney was an anti-semite.

no one ever believes me when i tell them this. do you know of any good sources i can point them to?

 

[ManaByte]

no one ever believes me when i tell them this. do you know of any good sources i can point them to?

There aren't any good sources because it's false. The closest connection anyone can put to Walt and Nazis was that he was trying to get a German distribution deal.

 

[meltpotato]

There aren't any good sources because it's false. The closest connection anyone can put to Walt and Nazis was that he was trying to get a German distribution deal.

i recall reading something pretty well documented quite a few years back. If it was BS then boo on me.

 

[ManaByte]

i recall reading something pretty well documented quite a few years back. If it was BS then boo on me.

This is something Walt wrote:
http://www.disneydreamer.com/Waltfaith.htm

He was the farthest thing from an anti-semite someone could get. Those rumors were started by disgruntled former employees and people who wanted to take a shot at the company. A lot of it came from the unions who Disney pissed off big time. They liked to call him an anti-semitic, anti-communist, anti-union, right-winger...when in reality Disney voted Democrat most of the time.

 

[DDayton]

That's not entirely accurate: Walt Disney was an anti-semite.

No he wasn't.

(Feel free to show proof to the contrary.)

 

[ManaByte]

No he wasn't.

(Feel free to show proof to the contrary.)

See my post.

 

[blackadde]

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdisneyfascist.html

 

[Matlock]

No he wasn't.

(Feel free to show proof to the contrary.)

Although I really can't cite directly from the book, I can direct you to the Straight Dope article that sources from it.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdisneyfascist.html

There's plenty more where that came from, but I'm much too tired/lazy to find much more.

edit, beaten! dammit!

 

[ManaByte]

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdisneyfascist.html

For the most part Disney doesn't appear to have had strong political views--his politics seemed to turn on whatever it took to keep his studio going. It's likely his interest in the German American Bund sprang from a desire to forge relationships with Germany for possible film distribution there. On the other hand, there was a lot of antisemitic feeling in the Disney studio. While no one can specifically attribute bias to Disney himself,

That article is also very wrong. Disney did have strong political views, but people always labeled him as a hard core conservative due to his fiercely anti-union stance that caused strikes at the studio, when in reality Walt voted Democrat 90% of the time.

Walt's big "Fuck You" to the Unions started lots of false rumors such as the anti-semite one and the ones that fill Mark Eliot's book Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince, which is about as accurate as a Supermaket tabloid.

Walt also specifically requested represenatives of the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish faiths be at his dedication of Disneyland on opening day.

 

[Matlock]

Mana: although we're providing sources, you're just saying things. Consider that for a moment, and start telling us where you get all this information with some sort of linkage.

 

[ManaByte]

Mana: although we're providing sources, you're just saying things.

I posted one link already. No one read it.

The stuff about his voting habits and his fights with the Unions (A LOT about the Unions actually) is discussed in the documentary Walt: The Man Behind the Myth.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001AVZWG.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

 

[Matlock]

That's not really the most objective of sources, you realize.

 

[ManaByte]

If Walt were anti-semitic, he wouldn't have had Jewish represenatives at the opening of Disneyland, wouldn't have made anti-Nazi propaganda, and he definitely would not have had the Sherman Brothers working right by his side until the day he died.

 

[I <3 Katamari]

Holy shit, this thread turned into a serious discussion about Walt Disney being anti-semitic.

 

[Spencerr]

Holy shit, this thread turned into a serious discussion about Walt Disney being anti-semitic.

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