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Billy Goat Sverige
03-16-2016, 09:53 AM
was going to post about it yesterday but couldn't be bothered translating it all. This covers it quite well :hehe:



Quote:



Sweden’s best selling newspaper has denounced Disney’s blockbuster animated film The Lion King as fascist propaganda, and has suggested Swedish youth should be shown films of migrant children coming to Europe instead.
Lion King Be Prepared Disney

Turning the more common idea of the film’s villain ‘Scar’ as a fascistic dictator on its head, Aftonbladet columnist Andrev Walden has re-cast the protagonist child-lion ‘Simba’ as a fascist folk hero that plays to the narratives of Sweden’s nationalist and populist parties.

Rather than famous scenes from the children’s classic showing the king’s brother reviewing his invasion troops as a homage to Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, the “disfigured, feminised” lion is an allegory for a cultural Marxist leader.

Although most likely lost on children, the imagery should be plainly obvious to adult watchers, explains Walden, as the character fits the idea of Marxist political actors as lacking in the traditional masculine leadership qualities right-wingers apparently enjoy.

Scar as a “weak” leftist has to “short circuit the natural order with lies and deceit”.

The over-reaching plot too is a typical fascist “blood and soil” laden with fascist sexual imagery, he argues, with lion-cub ‘Simba’ playing the role of the people’s hero. After the ascent to power of the left-wing Scar, who welcomes into the previous harmonious animal kingdom an invasion force of “degenerate” foreigners — Hyenas — the honest taxpayers of the land are forced to work harder to pay for their new guests.

In Walden’s words: “Hyenas, invariably useless, called early in the film “Dirty spongers” park themselves in sleepy groups around the Lion Rock. The original rulers are now forced to work twice as hard to provide both themselves and the work-shy migrants with food”.

The nation having been “plagued by parasites and a loss of masculinity” now enjoys a “purification and rebirth” with the hyenas cast into the fire, the Marxist leader killed by his own migrants, and the return of the true king.

For these reasons, the “left wing journalist”, as he is described by Sweden’s FriaTider contends the film is “like an animated course in fascist propaganda”.

These are images and themes to which children are apparently susceptible, and so Mr. Walden suggests instead children should be shown an “antidote” — pictures of migrant children.





http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/03/14/pro-migration-swe dish-newspaper-slams-disneys-lion-king-as-fascist-propaganda / (http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/03/14/pro-migration-swedish-newspaper-slams-disneys-lion-king-as-fascist-propaganda/)

Classic Jorge
03-16-2016, 10:01 AM
It's a f**king Disney at the end of the day, it's all fascist morality tales and unrealistic body expectations.

Berni
03-16-2016, 10:04 AM

Berni
03-16-2016, 10:07 AM
expectation.

And Disney get a pass for Dumbo, which never fails to make me blub.

Berni
03-16-2016, 10:10 AM

Classic Jorge
03-16-2016, 10:10 AM
Disney stuff is great for what it is, and yes it plucks at your heart strings like they were a flamenco guitar, but the moral messages are quite often deeply flawed.

You know what I've not seen for a while? Song of the South, they just dont show it any more.

Brentwood
03-16-2016, 10:11 AM
Now she keeps trying to roll her food with her nose :-(

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
03-16-2016, 10:14 AM
Och aye the noo.

Brentwood
03-16-2016, 10:16 AM
http://www.lbc.co.uk/ferrari-schools-student-protesting-agai nst-orient-express-ball-126793 (http://www.lbc.co.uk/ferrari-schools-student-protesting-against-orient-express-ball-126793)

In this article, Apple are being criticised because Siri doesn't give good advice to rape victims :hehe:

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/what-happens-when-you -tell-siri-i-was-raped (https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/what-happens-when-you-tell-siri-i-was-raped)

Everyone wants to complain about something these days

Classic Jorge
03-16-2016, 10:16 AM

Berni
03-16-2016, 10:16 AM
I've gone wrong.

Judging any art by contemporary standards is innately flawed - you know that. The scouse vultures in The Jungle Book look pretty damn clunky now as well, but you have to judge it by the times.

That said, Song of the South was an odd choice.

redgunamo
03-16-2016, 10:18 AM

Billy Goat Sverige
03-16-2016, 10:22 AM

Classic Jorge
03-16-2016, 10:22 AM
Perhaps TV isnt the ideal babysitter in any case but I do genuinely worry just how much it's the default kids thing throughout pretty much the last 50 years.

Berni
03-16-2016, 10:31 AM
shaped by a cartoon was never going to be one of the world's great thinkers anyway.

In other words, there's no point worrying what influences the thick, since they'll still be thick (and therefore almost certainly wrong) either way

Classic Jorge
03-16-2016, 10:32 AM