Nope, Mulan is an official Disney Princess — she’s even in the Disney on Ice show, though she does get shoved aside pretty often. Pocahontas is not. The next “princess” in the upcoming The Princess and the Frog has been deliberately created to be the first African-American princess and will be joining the whole pantheon, though I’m not quite sure that’s something to cheer about.

I can’t decide if King Louie should strictly count as racist, since he’s performed by the white (though Italian) Louis Prima. And though the Jim Crows (har har) are stereotypes, it’s somewhat mitigating that they’re kind and helpful to Dumbo, who everyone else sees as a useless freak until the very end. I view them more like Rochester (from Jack Benny’s shows) than Stepin Fetchit — trying to do more within the stereotype.

Peter Pan was my favorite movie as a kid, but sweet Jesus was I horrified when I saw it as an adult! I didn’t even remember half of the racist stuff — it flew right over my head.

Last bit: I was lucky enough to see the late, great Chuck Jones speak a couple of times. One of the questions from the audience was how Jones felt about Disney censoring the racist stuff out of Fantasia, which the questioner seemed to think was an outrage.

Jones said, “Well, I’ve never had to worry about being censored like that, because I never put stuff like that in my movies in the first place.”

He got a big hand.

The white princess fantasy is also being marketed towards adults - there’s no Mulan wedding dress.

In conclusion, that whole princess thing is fucked up on many levels.

Now, what do you need in a war? Mobility, communication systems, good roads, men who are used to working hard and obeying orders…

You don’t have to assume. They did know. Computers back then had to be tailor-made for each application. And unlike other companies, who dealt with the Nazis until war was declared then stopped when the government told them to, IBM went to great, great, great lengths to keep ahold of their german subsidiaries during the war. The only reason they got away with is is because by the end of the war, we were just as dependent on them.

1) IBM sold computing equipment to freakin’ everyone. Of course anyone wanting to run a concentration camp would want computing equipment. So they went to IBM. Now, let’s assume IBM were well aware of what their computers would be used for. In order for people to act all shocked about this revelation now, they have to believe that selling computing equipment (specifically, or possibly useful equipment generally) to a regime known for its human rights violations is necessarily unethical. There are dozens of such regimes here and now, not perhaps quite as flagrantly evil as Nazi Germany, but pretty damn evil, and thousands of US companies manufacture and sell to them, and I’m not seeing them up in any shitlist like this with everyone being all shocked.

2) The whole “But IBM are all-American! Yes, but American companies took a morally ambivalent stance on the whole Hitler thing” part. Do people really think the US went into the war because they realised that “the whole Hitler thing” was an evil that needed eradicating from the world, rather than attempting to stay neutral and out of the way as long as possible (and still attempting to trade with both sides), and only finally getting involved when they themselves were personally attacked?