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Meryl Streep rebukes Walt Disney: Anti-Semitic and 'a gender bigot'
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april32010
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evidence ,or drive by slander ?Maybe.
Probably not though.
People are only fooling themselves with that mantra.
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Darryl1958
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Just an opinion, based on differential treatment of Israel.evidence ,or drive by slander ?
But like I say, maybe, maybe not.
It is not as if this has not been typical throughout history. Maybe this time though, it is something new and good.
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7_Sorrows
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7_Sorrows
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Grandstanding. That’s all it was. The man has been dead for nearly 50 years. I hope she feels better now that she got it off her chest
I have followed Meryl Streep’s career since the 70’s. early on, I admired her so much as an actress. unfortunately, recently, when she speaks, I am very disappointed and don’t care to see any of the movies she is in anymore. I find her sense of self importance a negative.
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Bob_Crowley
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I’ve never read anything about Walt Disney. He was certainly a man with a vision. But we’re all products of our time, including Meryl Streep. I wonder what her views on abortion would be, compared to what she’s have believed if she’d lived in 1938.
I’m not American, but the only time frame given was a letter written in 1938, when there was a fair bit of employment discrimination against women, and they were generally seen as mothers, or mothers to be. That was pretty much the case throughout the West. They probably had more vocational “rights” in the USSR of all places, where men and women were regarded as “equal”.
Also in 1938, I suspect the Isolationist movement would have been alive and well, and maybe Disney sympathised with that. This might have made him less than encouraging to Jewish interests, who were possibly seen as the culprits for the problems in Europe at the time.
Charles Lindbergh was even more naĂŻve about Hitler and Germany, and Isolationism.
I don’t see much point in castigating people for being products of their time. I wonder what future generations will say about this generation which butchers milions of their own unborn children.
I’m not American, but the only time frame given was a letter written in 1938, when there was a fair bit of employment discrimination against women, and they were generally seen as mothers, or mothers to be. That was pretty much the case throughout the West. They probably had more vocational “rights” in the USSR of all places, where men and women were regarded as “equal”.
Also in 1938, I suspect the Isolationist movement would have been alive and well, and maybe Disney sympathised with that. This might have made him less than encouraging to Jewish interests, who were possibly seen as the culprits for the problems in Europe at the time.
Charles Lindbergh was even more naĂŻve about Hitler and Germany, and Isolationism.
I don’t see much point in castigating people for being products of their time. I wonder what future generations will say about this generation which butchers milions of their own unborn children.
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Sarcelle
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Antisemitism is evil no matter what time period it finds itself in. Just like slavery being acceptable before does not make it right. Evil is evil no matter what time period and we should not make excuses for people who hold on to these evil notions even if they were a product of their time.
Now if Disney were indeed an anti-Semite, than we can say he was antisemite and not say that he is excused because he is a product of his times.
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Della
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He wasn’t anti-Semitic. He hired Jews and was very loyal to his employees who were Jewish. One of his main animators was Jewish who worked for him for many, many years. All the evidence for Disney being anti-Semitic is based on hearsay and innuendo, not reality.
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Sarcelle
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Please read my post again. I put the word if, in the beginning of my sentence. I did not say that he was beyond all doubt an antisemite, hence the word if as a conditional.
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HollyDolly
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I don’t pay any attention to what any actor or actress says when it comes to certain things.
disney worked in an industry that still has a lot of jews. many of the studio heads of the time like the Warner Brothers,Louis B.Mayer and others were jews.
Yes maybe he didn’t have a lot of women in top positions,but there were women in Hollywood who were prominent screen writers, costume designers,etc.
If old Walt did or said anything that might have smacked of anti-semitism, it was not directed at those working for him but maybe some other studio head,etc.
People’s attitudes where different then than now.But that doesn’t mean that anti-semitism or anti catholic bias doesn’t exist.It does,but sometimes in more sublte ways .
disney worked in an industry that still has a lot of jews. many of the studio heads of the time like the Warner Brothers,Louis B.Mayer and others were jews.
Yes maybe he didn’t have a lot of women in top positions,but there were women in Hollywood who were prominent screen writers, costume designers,etc.
If old Walt did or said anything that might have smacked of anti-semitism, it was not directed at those working for him but maybe some other studio head,etc.
People’s attitudes where different then than now.But that doesn’t mean that anti-semitism or anti catholic bias doesn’t exist.It does,but sometimes in more sublte ways .
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Della
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And I responded as I did to allay all doubts.
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CAROLOFTHEBELLS
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What about Mary Blair? Meryl Streep needs to go to Disneyland and ride It’s a Small World so she can appreciate the artistic ability of this woman who did so much great work for Walt Disney. Obviously, he trusted and appreciated the at least one woman on his staff!
An interesting side note: In his early years, a woman (and her husband) stole the rights to Walt’s Oswald the Rabbit, his character prior to Mickey (pre Steamboat Willie) and also took his animators (except one).
An interesting side note: In his early years, a woman (and her husband) stole the rights to Walt’s Oswald the Rabbit, his character prior to Mickey (pre Steamboat Willie) and also took his animators (except one).
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