So. This happened. It's all Wonkette alumnus Dave Weigel's fault for putting it on the Twitters and telling America it existed. It is an "alt-right" cover of Billy Joel's already insufferable "We Didn't Start the Fire," full of heroes to the "alt-right" (aka the neo-Nazis who
Disney likes to be all officially coy about Song of the South, these days, but they fucking knew what they were doing. Brought in people to consult them on it, all of whom had the same response of "WTF ARE YOU THINKING?!?" And Disney did it, anyway. Arranged for the Academy to give James Baskett in honorary Oscar for his portrayal of Uncle Remus -- a move which the Academy used for years to claim that, "No way are we racist!"
Was Disney actually racist? Don't know. Sure made some racist movies, though.
I figured him more for a confed apologist. Tried to make it all softer and sweeter, nostalgic and such what.Aside: Baskett was still wonderful despite his subject matter. Though I admit to remembering very little but the opening song and the rabbit cartoon which was just meh.
Well, that is proof that God hates us.
I'm with you. There's no way I'm getting out of the boat for this one.
Yup. We're fucked.
TOTALLY.
I've been obsessing all day over Nazi swing propaganda, which really is the flipside to this lovely song.
Uh, Ariel/Eric is an *interspecies* union. Where she gonna carry a white babby in her fish tail?
That last line, Dok. Damn you for that last line.
...Because it's true.
Disney likes to be all officially coy about Song of the South, these days, but they fucking knew what they were doing. Brought in people to consult them on it, all of whom had the same response of "WTF ARE YOU THINKING?!?" And Disney did it, anyway. Arranged for the Academy to give James Baskett in honorary Oscar for his portrayal of Uncle Remus -- a move which the Academy used for years to claim that, "No way are we racist!"
Was Disney actually racist? Don't know. Sure made some racist movies, though.
No, it was quite related, but your arrogance prevents you from seeing it.
"Cuck."
Means nothing to the people at whom the "insult" is directed, shows the supreme ignorance of the person dispensing the "insult."
Well played, dumbasses.
Mozart and skiing
More grotesque by the day.
http://www.thedailybeast.co...
Would love to see links to your research when you publish, thanks.
Best thing I've seen all day.
I must be arrogant too, then. Because I can't see any point.
Cuck means a tiny cup you drink vodka out of.
I figured him more for a confed apologist. Tried to make it all softer and sweeter, nostalgic and such what.Aside: Baskett was still wonderful despite his subject matter. Though I admit to remembering very little but the opening song and the rabbit cartoon which was just meh.
And with these guys, tiny is the rule rather than the exception.