{"id":1823336,"date":"2023-01-25T10:06:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1823336"},"modified":"2023-01-25T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T15:06:59","slug":"fans-bid-farewell-to-disney-worlds-splash-mountain-as-it-closed-after-30-years-due-to-racism-assertions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fans-bid-farewell-to-disney-worlds-splash-mountain-as-it-closed-after-30-years-due-to-racism-assertions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Bid Farewell To Disney World\u2019s Splash Mountain As It Closed After 30 Years Due To Racism Assertions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffans-bid-farewell-to-disney-worlds-splash-mountain-as-it-closed-after-30-years-due-to-racism-assertions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1823336&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/disney-world\">Disney World<\/a>\u2019s iconic Splash Mountain ride just went on its final run, and some people are not happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>Fans took to social media to share a retrospective of the water ride\u2019s decades-long past, including footage of the doors to the ride closing for the very last time. The hashtag \u201cgoodbyesplashmountain\u201d TikTok currently has over 1.7 million views<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will miss you forever. Goodbye, Splash Mountain,\u201d One caption of the video read. Another video showed that the queue to board the ride took two hours on its last day of operation. Entrepreneurship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\">park visitors<\/a> The alleged water source was the log flume. They then sold it on Ebay (sic), for up to fifty bucks per bottle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As the last guests of Splash Mountain at Magic Kingdom, the entire crowd sings Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rdOYCG0WeF\">pic.twitter.com\/rdOYCG0WeF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WDW News Today (@WDWNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WDWNT\/status\/1617389018152374274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ride opened in 1992 and has been a popular staple of Disney World\u2019s Magic Kingdom ever since, with celebrities like Princess Diana going for a ride. In 2020, the company announced that Splash Mountain would be closed. Splash Mountain was accused of being racist and it would be replaced by a Princess Tiana-themed attraction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTiana is a modern, courageous, and empowered woman, who pursues her dreams and never loses sight of what\u2019s really important,\u201d A blog post by Disney, explained as The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disney-world-announces-closing-date-for-iconic-ride-to-be-replaced-by-more-inclusive-princess-tiana-attraction\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd with this longstanding history of updating attractions and adding new magic, the retheming of Splash Mountain is of particular importance today. The new concept is inclusive \u2014 one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Splash Mountain is often called by parkgoers. \u201cextremely problematic\u201d due to \u201cstereotypical racist tropes.\u201d It\u2019s based on elements from the Disney film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">Song of the South<\/a>\u201d (1946), were included on this ride. Walter White, former executive secretary of NAACP Walter White <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/03\/bob-iger-song-of-the-south-disney-disclaimer-1202879464\/\">said<\/a> The movie \u201chelps to perpetuate a dangerously glorified picture of slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film takes place on a plantation. Uncle Remus, an elderly black man who tells traditional African American folk tales, is featured in the film. As CEO Bob Iger stated, the movie was not available on Disney+. \u201cnot appropriate in today\u2019s world.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSong of the South\u201d The story is set in Reconstruction America, during which slavery was abolished after the civil war. The character Uncle Remus is not a slave but is sharing stories with a 7-year-old boy named Johnny who is visiting his grandmother\u2019s plantation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Splash Mountain was ultimately closed, despite repeated pleas. The change.org <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/everyone-to-save-splash-mountain-and-keep-it-as-it-is-in-magic-kingdom-and-disneyland\">petition<\/a> \u201cTo Save Splash Mountain\u201d The ride received more than 99,000 signatures but was ultimately closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSplash Mountain has never included depictions of slaves or any racist elements and is based solely on historical African folktales that families of all ethnicities have been enjoying for nearly a century,\u201d It said. \u201cIt is absurd to pander to a small group of \u2018Disney haters\u2019 that don\u2019t understand the story, and re-theme such a nostalgic ride.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney World\u2019s iconic Splash Mountain ride just went on its final run, and some people are not happy about it. Fans took to social media to share a retrospective of the water ride\u2019s decades-long past, including footage of the doors to the ride closing for the very last time. The hashtag \u201cgoodbyesplashmountain\u201d currently has 1.7 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1823339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9233,7564,5218,6344,5823,9717,8307,5243,16382,6158],"class_list":["post-1823336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-assertions","tag-bid","tag-closed","tag-disney","tag-fans","tag-farewell","tag-mountain","tag-racism","tag-splash","tag-worlds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}