One of Disney's better moments in terms of racism was Pocahontas. They showed white people as oppressors, which was reality. In many ways, it still is.
We asked the Junior High about the specific quotes, "They'e not like you and me, which means they must be evil. We must sound the drums of war!" and, "They're different from us, which means they can't be trusted."
Here are all of the responses:
I think the lyrics actually reflect how people are afraid of the unknown. It is showing how wrong it is to hate someone because they are different. However, kids might take this to mean that if people ARE different, they should be hated.
I think these lines say that people are immediately un-accepting of people who look or seem different. People dislike new people at first and try to see if they can trust the new people, instead of liking new people at first and deciding later if they can trust them.
This is how some people thought of each other in real life. At the end of the movie, they realize they have been mean to each other. I DON'T think it's racist because it points out real feelings that people have for each other. If they didn't fight, there wouldn't be a point to the movie, and it wouldn't show a realistic agreement between two people.
I don't think this is racist because if the writers pretended these two people lived each other, they would be lying.
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