Why was Walt Disney accused of being anti semitic?

Answer 1

With the arguable exception of the(Song of the South) no Disney movie or cartoon from the heyday of the (Mousetro)- he died in l966 had Black Characters, live or cartoon. There were no Blacks in the Mickey Mouse Club Mousketeers, it should be noted these were paid cast members, unlike the so-called Peanut Gallery of the (Howdy Doody)- while Arabic locales sometimes pop up as in say, Aladdin, Blacks are nearly always out of the focus.Disney evidentally either did not like Black People or felt they were too controversial for (Clean Family entertainment) it should be noted outside of such things as (Julia) they were rare on Television sitcoms with the exception of the ubiquitous Radio operators on one service comedy, one spy drama, and a Science Fiction series.

Disney also produced WWII films that depicted Japanese as yellow, buck toothed idiots, and Germans as homosexual idiots.

***I find this answer kind of interesting, since you don't consider the time period or the general feeling Americans had as a whole back then. You just decide to put all the blame on Walt Disney. If he hated the Japanese so much, them why did he hire men like Iwao Takamoto as artists, right out of internment camp at Manzanar? Obviously he wasn't to racist to recognize someones talent and abilities. Maybe you should read a little further into something before you start throwing accusations around. ***

Sick and Tired of the racist word.

Answer 2

In the early years in the 1940's Walt Disney was accused of being racist towards African Americans and Jewish people. There was a misreading from a film which had someone in a Nazi uniform, also in a commercial with mickey mouse his lighter had a swastika sign.