White Vegans
Go back in time to save turkeys from being a popular meal; but doesn’t go back in time to stop the white settlers from committing genocide against Native Americans.
Genocide seems like a good subject for a kids movie.
There are children who experience genocide, who’s people experience genocide, who’s people have experienced genocide. there are children who can’t not know about genocide.
there are appropriate ways to discuss genocide without scarring or harming a child. and for those who live with or live with the knowledge of genocide do they not deserve representation? who is really being protected by not discussion genocide? the oppressive group, not the oppressed.
there are children’s movies that hint at or depict genocide, in a less traumatizing way; films such as Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron, Pocahontas I & II (though vague and incorrect) and more. Disney films have depicted murder, death, loss, etc in a way that doesn’t harm most children. it is possible to discuss rough subjects with children. I am an educator, and I know that in California we start discussing genocide of indigenous peoples in fourth grade, when children are around 8 years old.
Back to this movie. Out of all the ideas and valid options there are for making movies about saving animals, they chose to have a setting that presents native americans and they chose to go with saving turkeys. this film set the stage and chose turkey over native americans.
(via durkin62)