Systemic Racism?

Well, what shall I say…

I had looked at the movie of which the below is a snippet many years ago. I watched this short snippet again, and I can’t get over how racist it is.

I am so glad Walt Disney has moved away from this nonsense.

I mean, I do not know where to begin…

The dog (I think his name is Pongo; first mistake as he should have been called something not-oppressive, like d’Jon or T’Jigga) is the epitome of racism. He rejects every partner that is not of the same white race as he is. A brown and a yellow dog are explicitly refused.

The video contains explicit “ageism” (“too old”), and drips Fatphobia (though it is not said explicitly).

Apart from the absence of any black dog (a Newfoundland, owned by Lizzo, would have done admirably), we can see that the beauty ideals of the Patriarchy are upheld and propagated: the chosen girl (and her dog) are white, pretty, slender, demure, feminine, and outright innocent. It really looks like a MAGA movie. I wonder why this hasn’t been banned as White Supremacist hate yet.

And the music, the music! The (obviously) White, Male, Straight guy is at work on the age-old oppression of sweet, romantic tunes meant to perpetuate the romantic ideal of, well, the Patriarchy.

This is not how this should have been done.

This should have had rap music, several huge dogs, all of them rigorously black or brown, led by Body Positive Minority Grrrls. The Straight White Man should have been – if you really want to have such a thing in a movie – ashamed of his condition, looking for ways to amend his systemic racism, and utterly ready to fall in love with the above mentioned Lizzo and her huge Newfoundland.

This, my dear readers, happens when Straight White Males are made to lead such productions, and shape them according to their own systemic racism.

Or perhaps this is just a top Walt Disney production, made by sane men in an age of sanity, and telling us how mad our age has become.