Academic "Mary Poppins" film promotes 'blackface' during chimney sweep scene

[Conil]

Academic "Mary Poppins" film promotes 'blackface' during chimney sweep scene

More crazy stuff. Arrest Dick Van dike.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) - Social media is in uproar after a U.S. academic accused Disney's 1964 classic film "Mary Poppins" of promoting 'blackface' in the famous chimney sweeping scene.

In an opinion piece that first appeared in the New York Times, professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner writes that Mary Poppins "blacks up" when her face is covered in soot and rather than wiping it off, she proceeds to cover her face with even more and dances with Bert and his children on the rooftop.

Pollack-Pelzer says that this may seem innocent but contains dark, racially-motivated undertones.

"We’re in on the joke, such as it is: These aren’t really black Africans; they’re grinning white dancers in blackface," he writes, calling the scene a "parody of black menace."

Pollack-Pelzner goes on to say,

Even if these characters’ shared name is accidental, it speaks to a larger point: Disney has long evoked minstrelsy for its topsy-turvy entertainments — a nanny blacking up, chimney sweeps mocking the upper classes, grinning lamplighters turning work into song.
Many fans have taken to social media to argue against this claim, calling it 'madness' and 'insulting,' among other things.

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[Phil C. McNasty]

More crazy stuff. Arrest Dick Van dike

Did you just say Dike???

I demand Conil gets banned for homophobia!!!!!!

 

[shack]

Did you just say Dike???

I demand Conil gets banned for homophobia!!!!!!

Phil. I'm glad to see that you've come around on the issue of calling out homophobia.

 

[Butler1000]

Pretty soon every coal miner will be arrested after a days work.....

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Pretty soon every coal miner will be arrested after a days work.....

Is it safe to come back from Florida with a tan, or should I hide out till it wears off??

 

[explorerzip]

Is this what academics do all day long?

 

[Mr Deeds]

Is this what academics do all day long?

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Yup pretty much

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Is this what academics do all day long?

That, and they doctrine our children who *think* they are getting an education for $40,000 dollars

 

[icespot]

Fucking ridiculous, now its racist to get a dirty face doing an honest days work.

Just like that stupid Gucci story about their sweater.....

One day the left populist are going to get a hard wake up. Because those of us on the left with brains clearly see their stupidity.

I actually hope, actually pretty sure Trump will win the next election.

Our next government in Canada will be a conservative majority and all because of a bunch of childish immature leftist sheep.

 

[oldjones]

Hands up those who actually read the original NYTimes piece Conil's source is misrepresenting and quoting out of context. What? None so far? That is no way to get anyone outside your closed circle to take you seriously, children.

BTW Phil, the word you were looking for is 'indoctrinate'. Conil has already been mocked for his lazy and disrespectul mis-naming of a hard-working entertainer — who has nothing to do with whether Ms. Tr.ave.rs or Mr. Disney were racially insensitive by todays' standards — and I point out that mockery makes nothing better, even if it shows how easily any of us can fail. Which is why rash, holier-than-thou finger-pointing is so foolish.

 

[Darts]

Were there any racism, bigotry, Islamophobia, homophobia, anti-semitism, etc. in North America before the arrival of the white man? Or, is this all the white man's fault?

 

[essguy_]

Off topic movie trivia: Years ago a young comic/singer/dancer/entertainer entered a talent agent's office did a routine and the agent said: "That was fantastic!! What's your name?"

"Penis Van Lesbian" said the young entertainer. "Well, you'll have to change your name if you want to work in this town" said the agent.

... and the rest is history.

 

[derrick76]

Were there any racism, bigotry, Islamophobia, homophobia, anti-semitism, etc. in North America before the arrival of the white man? Or, is this all the white man's fault?

Ask the indigenous population.

 

[IRIS]

In Hungary or here in Toronto you can buy licorice candy call "Negro". Very good!
It shows a chimney sweeper in black (negro) work clothes and suggest, the candy will clean your throat like a chimney sweeper clean the chimney.
Because the color of the licorice and the work clothes and the dirty chimney are all black they call it negro what means black.
It sell since 1930 in Europe and no one thinks is a racist candy until the past few years. Unfortunately, this liberal, politically correct idiots ( mentally challenged...) always see things what is not there.

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[Smallcock]

Ask the indigenous population.

Those that know their own history will say, yes, tribal hatreds and war and virtually all of the other vices of humanity existed in North America before the arrival of the white man.

If you were raised on Dances With Wolves, you might find this shocking. Maybe you're the kind of person who believes taking down statues of people that did great things but also may have been racists solves anything. https://www.jesus-our-blessed-hope....0-17-toon-dems-chgo-cemetery-statues_orig.png

 

[icespot]

Were there any racism, bigotry, Islamophobia, homophobia, anti-semitism, etc. in North America before the arrival of the white man? Or, is this all the white man's fault?

It's actually [economics] sorry meant greed, that is to blame for North America being racist. As the dummy from Virginia stated recently, at first there was a contract between the enslave Africans and the land owners. After a period of time, or a certain amount of debt being paid the enslaved Africans were freed, but once landowners saw how much money they were making, and how much more they could make by just enslaving Africans, permanent slavery became the norm. The only way you can get people to sign up for such stupidity is by making everyone believe, that Africans were a lesser race. Like you all know here lies always travel faster than the truth.

 

[harryass]

Is this what academics do all day long?

do they order their coffee "black"?

 

[Zaibetter]

More over the top politically correct bullshit...

 

[Darts]

It's actually [economics] sorry meant greed, that is to blame for North America being racist. As the dummy from Virginia stated recently, at first there was a contract between the enslave Africans and the land owners. After a period of time, or a certain amount of debt being paid the enslaved Africans were freed, but once landowners saw how much money they were making, and how much more they could make by just enslaving Africans, permanent slavery became the norm. The only way you can get people to sign up for such stupidity is by making everyone believe, that Africans were a lesser race. Like you all know here lies always travel faster than the truth.

The Irish, Italians and Jews in the north who worked in factories and as house servants were little better off than the slaves in the south. BTW: The Americans didn't invent slavery.

Question: Are to-day's descendants of slaves better off than descendants of Africans who never left Africa?

 

[Smallcock]

Question: Are to-day's descendants of slaves better off than descendants of Africans who never left Africa?

Not sure who is better off, but the entire continent of Africa was ruled by foreign powers, mostly European until recently. Some may argue that there are geopolitical infrastructures in place that keep Africa subservient to their former official rulers. I don't know enough about it to discuss.