King Louie: The Greatest Racist of Them All?

One thing that's come into fashion lately has been people's tendency to mock Disney characters for being "racist."  Nobody questions whether the crows in Dumbo might have been modeled after real musicians of the era, and nobody questions whether there really were (at some point in a bygone era) Indians like the ones in Peter Pan.  Apparently nobody has ever ridden the Washington State ferry system and seen old pictures of actual Indians.  It's almost enough to make you wonder what Millennials think when they go to an Americanized Chinese restaurant.  Is it more racist to call Chinese what they aren't actually, or more racist to call them what they are?  Or is it racist to pretend that Chinese people have certain kinds of food at all?  Maybe someday we'll live in a world where all the different races act completely the same way, so that everyone can pretend be more diverse without any stereotypes.  But I don't see how...(Read Full Article)