10+ Offensive Disney Scenes That Ruin The Movies

So let's set aside the fact that King Candy is a flamboyant, wrist waving and cowardly character (which is an over the top stereotype for gay people to begin with).

Nelly and Wafer are two derogatory terms for gay people, making this moment pretty homophobic.

Two words: Uncle Remus.

He's a happy-go-lucky former slave that still lives on the plantation that enslaved him. Wait... what? He still lives on the plantation? Then why is he so bloody happy?

This one is a propaganda film by Disney, and it features little German boys growing up to be Nazis.

It's particularly bad for German people, as not all of them are/were Nazis and not all agreed with Hitler's policies.

You might not have heard of this movie, which is probably something Disney wants because they have some pretty bad stereotypes in it.

The Chinese spies played by white actors, in particular.

Would you just look at these two offensive Asian stereotypes?

Using a gong in their song where they sing with over the top Asian accents. Jeez, you couldn't be more offensive.

There were some pretty offensive lyrics in the opening song for Aladdin, especially the one that goes "they'll cut off your ear if they don't like your face."

Luckily, they took it out in the 2019 version.

Alright, Peter Pan, don't pretend to be all innocent and childlike over there. You know what you did.

Lyrics like: Once the Injun didn't know/All the things that he know now/But the Injun, he sure learn a lot/And it's all from asking, "How?"

Shame.

Don't think you're out of the woods yet, Lady And The Tramp!

Yes, we know that the Chihuahua is named after a Mexican state, but there's no need to give him exaggerated features and a Mexican accent.

Everyone remembers the crows. They were bad stereotypes of black people (or at least they were presented that way).

Jim Crow? So black people are crows?

Real clever, Disney.

Another propaganda movie by Disney, this one featured Donald Duck working in a Nazi weapons factory. It also featured Hirohito with overly exaggerated features, yellow skin, and buck teeth.

If you hadn't guessed: this is a stereotype for Asian people.

Oh yes, there are two parts in The Little Mermaid that are pretty offensive.

First off, the whole movie promotes the idea that women are more attractive if they keep their mouths shut.

Some have equated this to an offensive portrayal of black people, and I can't blame them.

Not only is Snow White a woman forced to clean up after men, not only is the Evil Queen bent on destroying her because she's prettier, but the Prince kissed her without consent!

At first, this just seems like a song like "Hi Ho." Just a song to get a couple of fellas through a hard day of work.

But then you dig a little deeper...

First off, all the characters in the song are black.

Which wouldn't be all that racist (maybe the circus just overwhelmingly hires black people) until you realize none of them have faces.

And that's not all folks! Check out the lyrics:

"Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike!

When other folks have gone to bed

We slave until we’re almost dead

We’re happy-hearted roustabouts."

Black people singing about being slaves? Bad taste.

No wonder this scene was taken out of the live-action version.

This may have flown in 1941, but it certainly would not have been cool in 2019. That's for sure.

I know this is going to be hard to believe, but a cartoon from the '30s about African people has not aged well, not at all.

I know, I know, you've never heard that one before.

The so-called "Cannibals" in this short are portrayed as skinny with round stomachs, big lips and guess how they talk.

If you said "by clicking" then you have either done this before or are deeply disturbed.

Yes, I know he's played by Robin Williams and I know Robin Williams (rest his soul) changed your life in all sorts of different ways, and anyone criticizing any role he does is pretty much internet suicide...

But not only does he sing that aforementioned opening song, but his whole character just screams of Arabian stereotype.

A man who peddles cheap things on the side of the road, trying to swindle you the viewer? Does that sound like a particular race to you?

It shouldn't. And yet, Disney attributes it to Arabians.

As per author Rebecca Kay Jager: "The true Pocahontas story has a sad ending.

In 1612, at the age of 17, Pocahontas was treacherously taken prisoner by the English while she was on a social visit, and was held hostage at Jamestown for over a year."

The one that Disney completely failed to mention.

But hey, it's a kids movie, so they couldn't show a teenage girl getting kidnapped and sold to some British dude.

Or the fact that Native-American people are portrayed as people who can talk to trees and animals and whatnot.

The whole movie is just one big white savior movement and it needs to stop.

You may be thinking: "well hang on, how can Lion King possibly be racist? There are no humans in sight, and lions don't have races!"

Once again, Africa is portrayed in the media as one big wildlife reserve with no humans in sight.

Even though there are 1.2 billion people or 1/7th of the entire human population.

But we'll let this one go since they probably just wanted to make it about animals.

And let's talk about the hyenas for a moment.

How could this possibly be problematic, we hear you ask. Is it going to be something about race? Something about Ed being mentally disabled?

Think about it, those three are the most sonically ethnicized (Bonzai sounding Mexican, Shenzi sounding black).

There is a huge problem in Hollywood with black and Hispanic people being cast as buffoons and this was another instance.

Notice how most other animals in the jungle have a dapper English accent, but the monkeys and apes all talk jive?

Does any of that seem a little suspicious to you?

Not only is King Louie the only one who wants to be a "real person," but the author of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, is the same guy who wrote "The White Man's Burden."

From Dumbo. But to be fair to this movie, as we were for The Lion King, that was probably the point.

But it definitely scarred a bunch of kids!