A pre-Banking episode where I go on an alarmingly long tirade about 10 things that Disney doesn t want you to know about them, including one of the most offensive moments in their newest animated movie, Wreck-It Ralph.
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00:00:13.000Proud of your boy I'll make you proud of your boy from box Gavin McInnes.
00:00:38.000Hi, I'm Yoel Brenner, and I'm dead now.
00:00:43.000No, I'm Gavin McInnes, and I am here now in Florida for spring training, but we're going to be interviewing players in the morning, ideally.
00:03:37.000Including one that many people consider to be extremely homophobic.
00:03:41.000The movie's main antagonist is King Candy.
00:03:44.000He's the ruler of Sugar Rush, which is the location that the racing game Sugar Rush Speedway takes place in in the movie.
00:03:50.000Voiced by the brilliant Alan Tudyk, King Candy is a limp-wristed, eccentric, and flamboyant character with something of a bounce in his step.
00:04:06.000He takes the Sarah Silverman character, brainwashes her, and makes her think like he's he's more than he does more than just ruin people's lives.
00:06:42.000This pathetic evidence, Nellie and Wafer, is so overwhelming that Disney must have on purpose, purposely, by the way, stop saying purposefully.
00:06:52.000Purposefully means with intricate detail on purpose.
00:07:05.000I don't like gays, so I want to make this king a gay dude.
00:07:09.000And I want to have a scene where the Wreck-It Rough guy rattles him up a little bit and calls him that thing that we all call gays, Natalie Wafer.
00:07:41.000In spite of the fact that this is based on a fairy tale, and despite it being the kind of movie that parents wouldn't think twice about letting their kids watch, 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is actually full of offensive.
00:07:54.000So, Walt Disney was obsessed with Germany and Austria and ancient fables, Aesop fables, and all these stories that go back almost to the Bible, hundreds and hundreds of years old.
00:08:06.000I don't know how old Snow White is, but it probably goes back like 700 years.
00:08:12.000And you are offended by the beliefs, by the archetypes of Germany in the year 1200.
00:08:23.000My math isn't quite perfect there, but you know what I'm saying.
00:08:26.000Like this obsession with finding racism, you've got to scour.
00:08:32.000I haven't watched this video yet, so I don't know if it's racism, maybe it's sexism, but you have to scour through history to find something to offend you.
00:08:38.000You clearly, offensive things are clearly not a problem if you have to go through with a fine-tooth comb to find them.
00:08:46.000I don't care if there's a rock in my shoe, if it's the size of a grain of sand.
00:08:50.000Like, listen to the term microaggression.
00:08:53.000Remember when you were a kid and you'd fall and skin your knee and your dad would say, oh, you're fine, get up.
00:10:49.000And that sort of sums up the left and millennials and the naive community, which is I would rather stay in a coma forever and just, I guess, die of old age.
00:10:59.000I don't know what happens to you when you're in this kind of curse.
00:11:04.000We'd rather she died than have a non-consensual kiss.
00:11:08.000Ladies and gentlemen, if you're out there and I am in some sort of a coma and I can't be awoken unless I'm kissed, you can get the most disgusting, age-ridden, homeless man with herpetic sores all over his lips and pea breath, and you can have him kiss me without my consent.
00:12:09.000I'm a sexist, so I have trouble believing a man wrote that, especially that term, this is not okay, and I'm doing air quotes now in my head.
00:12:19.000This is not okay is a very chick thing, a very lefty, millennial, SJW, purple-haired chick thing.
00:12:34.000So if you want to get allegorical and stuff and keep it metaphorical, which is the only case where you have an argument because you're saying, I just don't like the idea of that.
00:12:42.000Here in Idealand, where everything's a metaphor, this is the man of her dreams.
00:12:47.000So she's going out of a coma, like the non-romantic sleep, which is what we all say.
00:13:52.000The men up there don't like a lot of blabber.
00:13:55.000They think a girl who gossips is a bore.
00:13:58.000Yet on land it's much preferred for ladies not to say a word.
00:14:01.000And after all, dear, what is idle babble for?
00:14:04.000Come on, they're not all that impressed with conversation.
00:14:07.000True gentlemen avoid it when they can, but they don't and swoon and fawn on the lady who's with that woman saying that is evil.
00:14:18.000So they're saying what she's saying is bad.
00:14:23.000And this evil woman is using that stupid claptrap, all those dumb theories to try to seduce this mermaid and make her, I don't know, do bad stuff.
00:14:33.000She's going to feed her a rotten apple or something.
00:14:35.000So the lyrics to that song are not advocated by Disney.
00:15:51.000And his love goes through that disability.
00:15:56.000Amazing how these people, I used to call it Nazi glasses, where they can just make everything about Nazis through their magical Nazi glasses.
00:16:15.000Disney's older movies notoriously feature racism on quite a widespread basis.
00:16:20.000But it's not something you expect to see in the more modern classics.
00:16:23.000However, rather shockingly, 1992's Aladdin definitely contained some extremely offensive racial stereotypes.
00:16:30.000The movie is, of course, set in the Middle East, and the way it's depicted in Aladdin is controversial, to say the least.
00:16:37.000Take the very first song sung in the movie Arabian Nights as an example of what we're talking about.
00:16:42.000It has lyrics like, I come from a land from a faraway place where the caravan camels roam, where it's flat and immense, and the heat is intense.
00:17:24.000The Middle East throws gays off buildings, stones women to death for being raped, murders people for slighting the Prophet of Islam.
00:17:33.000It is a ruthless, dark, horrible place.
00:17:37.000You know what they do for fun in Iraq?
00:17:39.000A Maureen told me this when he came back.
00:17:41.000He saw two men taking a pair of shearing scissors.
00:17:44.000And this is now, by the way, this movie takes place hundreds of years ago.
00:17:48.000Just cutting off a dog's ear with some shearing scissors and then watching it run around going, whining in pain, crying in pain, literally crying in pain.
00:17:58.000And that was something they did for fun in the year, I'm going to say 2015.
00:18:03.000So the only morsel you give me so far is that the Middle East was barbaric in a song, and I don't know who was singing it, and the Middle East is barbaric.
00:18:37.000This barbaric generalization of the Middle East has existed in Western civilization for years, and it still exists to this day.
00:18:44.000It's the kind of thing that adds fuel to the absurd rhetoric of the very real war on terror, which suggests that the Islamic Middle East...
00:18:52.000Did you know, narrator, that there's slavery in Libya right now?
00:18:56.000Did you know you can buy a person for $200?
00:19:00.000Do me a favor, go look at various Middle Eastern countries and look when they abolished slavery.
00:19:07.000You're going to see numbers like 1996, 2004.
00:19:11.000You're going to see numbers where I looked basically like I do now.
00:19:16.000I think I had shorter hair when many countries in the Middle East abolished slavery.
00:21:09.0001953's Peter Pan movie had some terribly racist content with regards to Native Americans, especially in the form of a song What Makes the Red Man Red.
00:21:19.000It was sung by a chorus of Native American characters who were, quite frankly, nothing more than offensive and stereotypical caricatures.
00:21:26.000In fact, the song has the feel of a minstrel-esque performance and contains lyrics such as, Once the Injun Didn't Know All the Things He Know Now, But the Injun, He sure Learned a Lot.
00:22:14.000And their broken English, yes, they were not native speakers, believe it or not.
00:22:20.000They didn't pick up English immediately.
00:22:22.000So when we go back in time, and this movie is going back to Victorian England, so it's our first meetings, really, our earliest meetings with the Indians when we were not really assimilated, not really on the same page.
00:22:34.000Yeah, they're going to have an accent.
00:22:37.000Like, what's this beef that they don't speak perfect English?
00:22:45.000There's also a horrible implication that Native Americans have their supposedly red skin due to the fact that an Indian prince kissed a squaw a million years back and they've been blushing ever since.
00:22:56.000It's a terribly degrading depiction of Native Americans.
00:23:00.000But it was typical of the old pop culture portrayals that ignored the centuries of terrorism, plunder, and degradation that they had to adjure at the hint.
00:23:08.000Oh my god, these people want to ruin everything.
00:23:51.000That's one of the quotes, like, I don't understand.
00:23:53.000You know that cartoons can't write their own characters, right?
00:23:56.000And he totally ignored the fact that Willie the Groundskeeper is a raging stereotype of Scotsman, that that cop is a raging stereotype of cops.
00:24:07.000Everyone's an exaggeration in cartoons.
00:24:10.000It's sort of like Halloween when they're mad that we dress like Indians on Halloween.
00:24:14.000Yeah, we're dressing up as exaggerations because it's a funny dress up.
00:25:07.000Actually, that's a dumb analogy because that is true.
00:25:09.000But in this one, he goes, yeah, so that song, that womp song and the dancing they were doing, it justifies this common belief that Indians are inferior.
00:25:18.000Yeah, that belief from half a century ago.
00:25:21.000And it also enables us to be racist towards them today.
00:26:06.000What could be sweeter than the romantic animated tale of a refined female American cocker spaniel named Lady falling in love with a young girl called the Tramp?
00:26:15.000Well, quite a lot apparently, as 1955's Lady and the Tramp has some very racist moments in it.
00:26:21.000The twin Siamese cat characters Sai and Am are truly horrible racial stereotypes.
00:26:27.000They're the movie's main villains and are depicted as sly, sneaky, and devious East Indians with buck teeth, narrow slanted eyes, and extremely thick.
00:27:00.000They definitely have a buck tooth stereotype, which I just saw in the Siamese, which you might have a case with.
00:27:05.000However, that's not an invalid stereotype.
00:27:09.000The Coolies, back when the railroad days, did have bigger buck teeth because dentistry wasn't a thing.
00:27:14.000In fact, it's still not a thing in Japan.
00:27:16.000Japanese people's teeth look worse than English people's teeth, and both of them look like they just got kicked in the face with a chiclet boot.
00:27:50.000So the persecution of the Siamese in America is not a big priority when it comes to civil rights because no one knows what the hell Siam is, including me.
00:28:06.000Never is the stereotype more blatant than when the two cats are singing their trademark song, the Siamese Cat Song.
00:28:12.000You know, the one that starts with the words, I am Siamese, if you please?
00:28:16.000During the song, the pair attempt to use their cunning to wreak havoc in the house, which includes trying to eat a live bird and a live fish.
00:28:22.000It also includes stereotypical East Asian music, including a gong.
00:30:50.000The first live-action movie on this list is a 1975 comedy offering that Disney have long buried and with good reason.
00:30:57.000It really was a hideously racist movie.
00:31:00.000In fact, the entire thing was just one big racist moment.
00:31:04.000It saw a Queen's messenger by the name of Lord Edward Southmere escaping from China with a document containing the formula for the mysterious Lotus X. As a result, he was pursued by a group of Chinese spies who were played by white actors.
00:31:18.000The aforementioned document in question turned out to be a recipe for wonton soup, which was about the only Chinese stereotype in the movie that wasn't completely inappropriate.
00:32:29.000I happen To think Cantonese hearing like Cambodians yell at each other, especially women, is the most ear-piercingly horrible sound a human mouth can make.
00:32:40.000You know that movie Miniature or something with Matt Damon where he shrinks down to half an inch?
00:32:44.000There's a Cambodian woman, they don't include her in the trailer, but she's like, You don't like me?
00:34:40.000this is beyond a Chinese characters had terribly over exaggerated accents with every instance of the letter r getting mixed up with the letter l yeah they do that was even worse characters were given almost yellow skin and had taped eyelids blue eye shadow and very stereotypical facial hair it's no wonder Disney have banished this one to the archives it really is and absolutely should be one for them to forget it's It's actually quite surprising.
00:35:06.000By the way, China back then would have decrees where everyone have the same hair.
00:39:25.000He was a minstrel in blackface, right?
00:39:28.000Yes, a percentage of blackface was whites dressing up as blacks and acting foolish, and that was a negative stereotype.
00:39:35.000My studies, my research tells me about 10 to 15 percent.
00:39:41.000The rest of it was all white people fascinated with black people and their culture and that they were so much more colorful that they would dress up with them on stage and be them because they were excited by the Negro.
00:39:53.000And this fascination continues today, obviously.
00:39:56.000But even within blackface, it went up.
00:39:57.000When I was a kid in the 80s, you'd turn on the TV and it was called the Wonderful Minstrel Show.
00:40:03.000And it was all over Britain up until honestly 1985.
00:41:40.000We're cheating a little bit here using two movies and one entry, but given that they're both short movies and have the same offensive content, we think we're okay.
00:41:48.0001943's Education for Death is Disney's most infamous war propaganda.
00:41:53.000It completely dehumanized its German characters by showing them all growing up to become Nazis.
00:42:31.000You're going to have Superman punching all the Nazis.
00:42:34.000Pick up a Mickey Mouse comic, and you're going to have Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck fighting the Nazis.
00:42:40.000That's what countries do in a state of war.
00:42:43.000And your biggest beef with 1943, when the Nazis were taking over the world and our boars were dying in the thousands fighting them, your biggest beef is that a movie came out that made Germans look bad?
00:43:01.000So the offensive part of this is that it's mean to Nazis.
00:43:35.000Nazis are terrible, but it's important to note that not all Germans are or ever were Nazis.
00:43:41.000And not all of them agreed with Hitler's views.
00:43:44.000Der Führer's Face is another 1943 Disney War propaganda movie and it won Donald Duck his first and only Oscar.
00:43:52.000It featured Axis leaders in a marching band getting Donald Ducking him a horrible breakfast and forcing him to work in a weapons factory all day.
00:44:00.000The depictions of all the Axis leaders were terribly offensive to their particular race.
00:44:05.000Hirohito has buck teeth, yellow skin, and squinting eyes, for example.
00:44:11.000Okay, so you got a racist exaggeration of a Japanese person.
00:44:16.000All right, I'll give you point one of a point for that.
00:44:18.000It's during World War II the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
00:44:24.000Suicide kamikazes were plummeting into airships, murdering sailors in droves.
00:44:31.000I think I was at the Intrepid there in New York City, and they talk about these, I think it was 50 sailors who were on deck murdered by a kamikaze.
00:44:43.000I'm sorry I was mean to your people during a war, you fing pussy.
00:48:23.000All right, if you have a black man talking about how awesome slavery was after he's freed, that would be something I would love to hear it and I would give you one point.
00:48:33.000I believe you're at 0.6 now out of 30 points.
00:48:37.000You would have been up 1.6 basking in all your victory, but we don't have that.
00:48:43.000And the fact that the guy wasn't allowed to go to the premiere is bad.