General of the Armies

Amotah wrote:

The Mister Class wrote:

give shoutout to mister genz, the unsung hero.

he literally did on the first page.

_Pyth0n_ wrote:

Carking the 6th wrote:

The Monke god speaks in riddles, you must master the way he fiddles. Sometimes his tense may be in the past, but overall his consistency never does last. Therefore I will now speak in tomes, as that is the best way to communicate to his tunes. And always remember if you challenge the Monkey, to survive is to use that the power of mind as your key.

Snake > Monke

That's not in the movie!

What on Earth

snake

I love that song

I feel like that's borderline racist right there.

to reptiles or primates?

Taffyta Muttonfudge wrote:

I feel like that's borderline racist right there.

-VIP- wrote:

to reptiles or primates?

_Pyth0n_ wrote:

Taffyta Muttonfudge wrote:

I feel like that's borderline racist right there.

-VIP- wrote:

to reptiles or primates?

You can't be racist to a species-

-VIP- wrote:

It says that: “... Specifically, the most obvious depiction of race in The Jungle Book comes with the monkeys. The monkeys enter the plot swinging through the Indian forest in search of Mowgli, the man cub. They swoop down from the canopy to kidnap Mowgli and take him back to their home in the ancient ruins. Before we even get to their actions, the first issue is their actual depiction. These monkeys are plainly coded as black characters in an extremely harmful way. Baloo, the man-cub’s adorable pseudo-father, fights the monkeys and shouts at them, “Why you flat-nosed, little-eyed, flaky creeps!”(The Jungle Book). He doesn’t say you scoundrels, you rascals, you evil people, he points out their physical features to shame them. Baloo is a brown bear, a species native to the North American forest and not the film’s Indian jungle, with a booming american voice, so obviously he goes on the whiter side of the animals. He points out their flat noses, one of the most distinctive, stereotypically African facial features. Baloo also calls them “Flea Picking” and “Mangy” during the same chase. Further, their voices are forced into a gravelly, exaggerated register. The lines, voiced by all white actors, strike the same tone as minstrel show actors performing in blackface for white audiences in the Jim Crow era. The white actors voicing these monkeys went out of their way to voice these characters as black. And not just black people, black fools. They laugh wildly at everything and can barely hold themselves back with swings of hysterics at whatever they do. They were intentionally portrayed and voiced to paint black people as foolish, dirty criminals.”

Taffyta Muttonfudge wrote:

-VIP- wrote:

I looked it up and found this: I Wanna Be Like You: Racial Coding in Disney’s “The Jungle Book”

It says that: “... Specifically, the most obvious depiction of race in The Jungle Book comes with the monkeys. The monkeys enter the plot swinging through the Indian forest in search of Mowgli, the man cub. They swoop down from the canopy to kidnap Mowgli and take him back to their home in the ancient ruins. Before we even get to their actions, the first issue is their actual depiction. These monkeys are plainly coded as black characters in an extremely harmful way. Baloo, the man-cub’s adorable pseudo-father, fights the monkeys and shouts at them, “Why you flat-nosed, little-eyed, flaky creeps!”(The Jungle Book). He doesn’t say you scoundrels, you rascals, you evil people, he points out their physical features to shame them. Baloo is a brown bear, a species native to the North American forest and not the film’s Indian jungle, with a booming american voice, so obviously he goes on the whiter side of the animals. He points out their flat noses, one of the most distinctive, stereotypically African facial features. Baloo also calls them “Flea Picking” and “Mangy” during the same chase. Further, their voices are forced into a gravelly, exaggerated register. The lines, voiced by all white actors, strike the same tone as minstrel show actors performing in blackface for white audiences in the Jim Crow era. The white actors voicing these monkeys went out of their way to voice these characters as black. And not just black people, black fools. They laugh wildly at everything and can barely hold themselves back with swings of hysterics at whatever they do. They were intentionally portrayed and voiced to paint black people as foolish, dirty criminals.”

I mean I don’t know man It never put any images about black peoples in my head lol. The monke characters sound white, are voice acted by a famous white artist of the time and the yelling stuff feels like regular Monke antics. People point out physical features when roasting someone all the time, and that is the description of the Monke. If they were trying to be racist, all they failed miserably and all they succeed on doing was making a nice song about Monke dudes who want fire. I mean don’t get me wrong Disney did plenty of racist shit at this time, but this Doesn’t feel like this it is a Dumbo moment here.

Can’t even watch jungle book in 2023

Carking the 6th wrote:

_Pyth0n_ wrote:

Taffyta Muttonfudge wrote:

I feel like that's borderline racist right there.

-VIP- wrote:

to reptiles or primates?

You can't be racist to a species-

SPECIESISM! You can’t just deny all that history of terror and bloodshed! How Unnoble!

Speciesists..

im guessing you are confused about a lota things in life, Taffyta

dont believe evrything you see online, people try to brainwash you,

haha you said Baloo is a Black Bear trying to hard to fit what you are trying to say,

he is a Sloth Bear, witch is fitting

Carking you got more points since yesterday then i have since i joined