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It’s funny that this is the Untouchable film from old Disney. There’s much more mean spirited racialist depictions of other groups in other Disney movies. The antagonists are two white kids and the white mother, all of the negroes in the film are forthright, kind, and morally unassailable, so in that sense it’s at least as anti-racist as it is racist. But of course the problem, as the current anti-racist would see it, is the paternalism, it’s that the negroes are depicted as a simpler people than the whites and they are content being lower status than the more civilized whites. But we’re now almost 80 years on from Song of the South and I think it’s interesting to look back on that paternalism as the road not taken of progressivism. By denying the reality and scientific based understanding of race and the pragmatic solutions to racial problems (segregation) as well as insisting that a population of people with dramatically lower intelligence on average than another is going to have overall worse outcomes is a monumental injustice, any real chance to attempt racial harmony, whether possible or not, is fully torched, and we now face a future where there really aren’t options left to deal with the racial problem other than white genocide or TND (or it’s lesser cousin “back to Africa”). If there wasn’t a foreign and virulently anti-white element of the American elite pushing all aspects of society towards white genocide, I could easily see a timeline where progressive culture leaned into paternalism and embraced Song of the South futurism instead. Though I suspect it would have still ended in white genocide via mulattoization.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/34c13259-139c-43fd-950e-485793269a60