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What, no blacks or minorities?! WTF?!


I fully expected to see a Hispanic Cinderella with dyed black and red hair and wearing zebra striped yoga pants and tottering on spike heels! Instead, I get this blonde bimbo who's WHITE (ugh) wearing glass slippers (as if) and riding in a frickin' pumpkin.

Where are the minorities in this? Why doesn't the stepmother speak Spanish? Why don't the stepsisters look like Latinas? I expected at least to see the King as a black man and the prince should be Mexican.

All of this is so wrong. What was this Walt Disney guy thinking?

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Because there were no black people in Germany in the 17th century troll.

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In this century, diversity wasn't common!

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In a old 1950 movie set in medieval times??

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Integration and Civil Rights didn't take place until around the 60s

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No chicks who want to be dudes, or dudes who want to be chicks, either. This movie should be remade, but fully Woke this time, or I'm gonna run into my safe space and play with crayons!

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Some people just won't get your satire, Tankitty. :)

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It‘s not satire. It’s sarcasm, the bottom of the barrel for attempted humor. It’s reverse racism that’s been done to fucking death. And for the record, satire is not inherently humorous. Try to find 1 chuckle in Swift’s A Modest Proposal. It’s relentlessly grim.

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Either you're doing a joke post, or you're more racist than most white people out there.

This was a cartoon that was made in the late 1940s and released in 1950. Do you really think they were gonna show any minorities in a film like this? The most Disney did of showing minorities in his cartoons at this time was animals behaving like politically incorrect minorities. That, and the chances of having minority people at a royal ball in Victorian Europe (even a fantasy one) was extremely low.

You want a more diverse film? Go watch the "Cindy" which was a tv movie from 1978 and had an all-black cast (and was surprisingly entertaining), Roger's and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" with Brandy and Whitney Houston in it, and the most recent "Cinderella" film from 2015, which had a surprisingly diverse group of people living in the same kingdom as Cinderella.

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I'm pretty sure the OP is being sarcastic and meant it as a joke.

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You probably are right but there are those who think the things the TC said. It reminds of about 5 or 6 years ago on imdb a guy on the Leonardo DiCaprio Great Gatsby board called me racist because I said that Gatsby couldn't be black because black people didn't have the same rights as white people in the U.S in the 1920s and therefore senators wouldn't have gone to visit him if he was black. I also said that a racist man like the character Tom would've refused to hang out at all with Gatsby if he was black. And not only did he stupidly say I was wrong about black people not having rights back in the 1920s but he insisted that Tom wasn't racist.

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