Was Disney really anti-semitic?
Honestly, I don’t know, but Family Guy apparently thinks so. Really fucked up stuff!
I did a little research. Here is an explanation from the Disney website in regards to Disney’s anti-semitic rumors.
“How do myths like Walt’s supposed anti-Semitism begin? Did Walt make offhand comments about the Jewish union members during the painful strike of 1940? Likely. Might some of his executives have harbored anti-Semitic feelings that were wrongly ascribed to Walt himself? Very possibly. Did some of his early cartoons — notably “Three Little Pigs” — contain the kind of unpleasant Jewish caricatures that were common to many cartoon studios at the time? Certainly. Did a few Jewish men who had difficult relationships with Walt speculate that the reason was because they were Jewish? Also yes. Does all this add up to an anti-Semite? Not by any means.”
So, just because he made some anti-semitic comments towards union members during a strike, and just because everyone he worked with was anti-semitic, and just because some of his cartoons had anti-semitic feelings, and just because he fought with “a few” jewish men, and just because, and just because … that doesn’t make him an anti-semite!
Give me a FUCKING break!
Anyway, A+ for the family guy season premiere, was definitely one of the funnier episodes you will ever see. As for The Cleveland Show? Eh…
September 28, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Wow, epic fail! You really should so more research before spouting off such things. Making anti-semitic comments is only done if you have anti-semitic thoughts. And the original Disney cartoons are so wildly racist, no one can argue otherwise. It’s not just the Jews he was hating on, it was blacks, hispanics, etc, etc, etc.
October 1, 2009 at 5:55 am
they seem racist now but at the time there was no controversy over it. you shouldn’t go around holding todays standard of racism to what it was 70 years ago. political correctness wasn’t shoved down people’s throats nearly as much as it is today. many successful people happen to be jews and family guy doesn’t attack them. only the non-jews like disney. typical family guy, what do you expect.
October 1, 2009 at 8:47 pm
First, Disney hired Jews, lots of Jews. Disney was not himself Jewish, of course, but the success of his business owed a great deal to a Jew. The bedrock of Disney was Walt’s merchandising partner, the Jewish Kay Kamen, the man who helped make Mickey Mouse into a cult and who once remarked that Disney had more Jews in it than the Book of Leviticus. This was not an accident, occurring against Walt’s wishes. When Harry Tytle joined the studio as a production manager and told Walt that he was half-Jewish, Disney replied: “It would be better if you were all Jewish.
October 27, 2009 at 2:08 pm
The world would be better whitout any fucking Jew.
Walt Disney hate them, and for the right reason: they are the scum of the scum (along with the nigger of course)
February 6, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Who was the alchoholic in your family, your mother or father? Hitler is dead, and you are brain dead.
November 18, 2009 at 8:41 am
I am clearly a Democrat- Liberal Party supporter over supporting the Conservative Party and I still do rightfully believe in God, but I gave up supporting the lying, hypocritical, Pharisaical Conservative party. It was also very clear to me that Sarah Plain’s family did not live what she herself had preached to the others too. http://mccainvrsobama.wordpress.com/
One inappropriate graffiti on a Jewish Center wall in Calgary Alberta makes the national news of Canada.. many Palestinian homes torn down in Israel makes very little news, What real unacceptable Hypocrisy. Peace in the middle east is never possible but it is not just the Arabs but the Jews themselves clearly who are part of the unacceptable problem. None of this is politically correct.
US ‘dismayed’ by Israel’s new settlements in Jerusalem Telegraph.co.uk – The White House has said it is dismayed by Israel’s decision to build new settler homes in Jerusalem saying it makes it harder to kick-start the peace talks.
Do see also
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/dire-warning-of-israeli-strikes-on-iran/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/taiwanization-or-borking/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/anti-jewish/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/israel-killed-civilians-without-cause-and-not-the-first-time-too/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/harper-stays-silent-on-gaza/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/it-is-appalling/
http://postedat.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/the-bible-and-the-jews/
http://postedat.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/zionism-zionists/
http://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/john-hagee%e2%80%99s-israel-heresy/
http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/the-2-promised-returns/
http://mccainvrsobama.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/the-restoration-of/
http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/i-have-learned-decades-and-decades-ago-that-the-brethren-are-deceitful/
http://postedat.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/dispensationalists-it-seems-to-compensate-for-their-often-rejections/
December 19, 2009 at 6:16 am
Because this was before the Holocaust, making fun of Jews likely seemed even more defensible than making fun of rednecks does today, cause Jews were the boss man in Hollywood. They were the powerful, not the oppressed. It’s not even like that’s changed. Eisner fired all of his 2D animators right after their most successful movies (Lion King, Aladdin) and personally made $589 million that year, making him America’s highest paid executive by far. The former employees don’t love him. Katzenberg, Spielberg and Geffen laid off more than half of Dreamworks Animation during the blockbuster success of Shrek, increasing their gains as well (don’t have to pay salaries between movies). The former employees don’t love them. Katzenberg and Eisner both grew up rich on Park Avenue and Katzenberg never even went to college, yet he headed up Disney’s animation department. If Walt was looking at stuff like this and noticed something wrong, I don’t blame him. Despite their tiny numbers, two thirds of the main power brokers in Hollywood are Jewish, which is a religion, btw, not a race. If we were describing Mormons controlling Hollywood, not Jews, would you see something wrong? Something along the lines of religious discrimination? Before the memory of the Holocaust kept people from insulting Jews, here is what some famous people had to say about them:
Mark Twain had this to say about religion in general:
“Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned.”
– Mark Twain, on the margin of a newspaper report titled “God & the Earthquake; Rabbi Says God Who Would Kill The Innocent Isn’t Worthy of Worship,” about an earthquake in Italy and how people were fleeing into churches, only for the building to collapse in aftershocks, killing the followers.
And this to say about the Jews:
In the England of John’s time everybody got into debt to the Jew. He gathered all lucrative enterprises into his hands. He was the King of Commerce. He had to be banished from the realm. For like reasons, Spain had to banish him 400 years ago, and Austria a couple of centuries later. In all ages Christian Europe has been obliged to curtail his activities. If he entered upon a trade, the Christian had to retire from it. If he set up as a doctor, he took the business. If he exploited agriculture, the other farmers had to get at something else. The law had to step in to save the Christian from the poor-house. Still, almost bereft of employments, he found ways to make money. Even to get rich. This history has a most sordid and practical commercial look. Religious prejudices may account for one part of it, but not for the other nine. Protestants have persecuted Catholics — but they did not take their livelihoods away from them. Catholics have persecuted Protestants — but they never closed agriculture and the handicrafts against them. I feel convinced that the Crucifixion has not much to do with the world’s attitude toward the Jew; that the reasons for it are much older than that event . . . I am convinced that the persecution of the Jew is not in any large degree due to religious prejudice. No, the Jew is a money-getter. He made it the end and aim of his life. He was at it in Rome. He has been at it ever since. (“Concerning the Jews,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, September 1899)
And Voltaire, who managed to get many heretics pardoned from death for questioning Christianity, said this about Christianity:
“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.”
– Voltaire, quoted from James A Haught in “Honest Minds, Past and Present” Talks for History of Freethought conference Sept. 20-21, 1997, Cincinnati, Ohio sponsored by Council for Secular Humanism and Free Inquiry Group
This about religion:
“If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire, quoted from Kevin Courcey, “Religion a Natural When it Comes To Terrorism”
And this about the Jews:
“Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race . . .” “The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous — cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.” (Essai sur le Moeurs)
It’s sort of like how Obama’s speech about his white grandmother’s racism at fearing black men when she was alone would have puzzled people of the 30s, who would wonder why he’d consider that a selling point as he ran for President. Today, it’s considered racist to quote crime statistics, so I must refer back to the FBI’s October Uniform Crime Reports of 1993, when blacks killed 22 times as many whites as whites did blacks (pg. 294, “Why Race Matters” by Michael Levin). I can’t find more current comparison data, so sure, it would be racist for an elderly white woman to fear black men NOW, but what if Obama’s grandma did it in 1993? Yes, it’s sad that these respected men have said anti-semitic things, but maybe there is still an unsheeplike example to learn from – baa, quit picking on rednecks and start questioning the status quo?