Today’s Textbooks…
(Source: facebook.com, via thoughtremixer)
Someone’s done this before right?
they literally look like a bunch of white folks on Halloween lmao who are they even kidding
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once upon a time, in Japan…. *white characters*
this takes place in Africa… *white characters*
our story starts in the Middle East… *white characters*
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Disney fans to avoid
The hair color equals diversity fan:
Look at all the hair colors. There's a blonde, a brunette, and a red head! So much diversity!
The it wouldn't be accurate fan:
Stop complaining, there are like four princesses of color and you want more. That would be historically inaccurate.
The I wish there were more white princesses that looked like me fan:
I wish that more blonde haired a blue eyed princesses because I can't relate to any of the other white ones.
When you wish upon a star
when you wish upon an almost completely white star..
Where is Jasmine, Tiana, Mulan, and Esmeralda, ?
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Pocahontas{Photo}
Before anyone gets upset, I wanted to know what the heroines would look like if they looked a little more like me. I have dirty blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin, and my favorite color is blue, so all the heroines I edit to look like that have nothing to do with my views.
If you still get upset, please click here. Know, though, that I’m discussing two different arguments on representation in this tag. Keep in mind which series you’re looking at.
The real Pocahontas was a little girl whose kidnapping and rape was justified on the grounds that her husband “civilized” her and erased her cultural and racial identity.
And you REALLY can’t see how this might be hurtful
SERIOUSLY
You cannot claim “creative freedom” while stealing and altering someone else’s artwork, in an attempt to justify your racist actions.
anotherfallingworld: <– I am looking at you
talking snowmen aren’t historically accurate
yeah but they’re white so no one cares
XD
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stop white princesses 2014
Disney makes a film that takes place on the African continent; all human characters in the film are white.
People go on about how Disney didn’t have pocs in Brave or Tangled, or Frozen because “it wouldn’t be historically realistic” (even though that has been disproven time and again.) But The Emperor’s New Groove managed to work in two white people in pre-colonial Mesoamerica for no logical reason whatsoever. So this argument needs to stop.
My daughter and I went (used) book shopping and picked up a number of books. My daughter found this book, The Edge of the River, written by Bob Hartman and illustrated by Michael McGuire. It is a religious book meaning to depict Moses as a baby going down the river and being found by an Egyptian woman. I am not religious, especially not Catholic, Christian, or Jewish, but I skimmed through the book anyways and was troubled by the illustrations.
I may be wrong but I thought the woman who found Moses, in the fairytale, was an Egyptian woman.. All the characters in this book are white people…
This is whitewashing.