{"id":1925550,"date":"2023-05-06T04:57:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T08:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-says-disneys-new-woke-peter-pan-has-racism-built-into-story-using-non-white-actors-not-enough\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T09:02:00","slug":"cnn-says-disneys-new-woke-peter-pan-has-racism-built-into-story-using-non-white-actors-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-says-disneys-new-woke-peter-pan-has-racism-built-into-story-using-non-white-actors-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN claims Disney&#8217;s &#8220;woke&#8221; Peter Pan still contains racism, despite using non-white actors."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fcnn-says-disneys-new-woke-peter-pan-has-racism-built-into-story-using-non-white-actors-not-enough%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=1925550&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--><h2>Racism and Colonialism in Peter Pan: A CNN Opinion Piece<\/h2>\n<h3>The Problem with the New Disney+ Film<\/h3>\n<p>A recent CNN opinion piece by Noah Berlatsky argues that racism and colonialism are \u201cbuilt into the workings\u201d of the Peter Pan story, despite the new Disney film\u2019s diverse cast and inclusion of girls in the \u201cLost Boys.\u201d Berlatsky claims that switching to non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/predictably-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-executive-producer-calls-critics-racists\/\" title=\"Predictably, The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Executive Producer Calls Critics Racists\">-white actors<\/a> \u201cisn\u2019t enough\u201d to address the core issues of the story.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-says-disneys-new-woke-peter-pan-has-racism-built-into-story-using-non-white-actors-not-enough\/\" title=\"CNN claims Disney's \"woke\" Peter Pan still contains racism, despite using non-white actors.\">op-ed accuses<\/a> the new film of trying to \u201csidestep the colonialism at the heart of \u2018Peter Pan\u2019 by employing less uniformly White casting than other remakes.\u201d Berlatsky writes, \u201cIt\u2019s a worthy effort, but racism, unfortunately, is harder to disarm than Captain Hook.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Colonial Framework<\/h3>\n<p>Berlatsky argues that the classic story of Peter Pan combines ideas about childhood and colonialist tropes into an exciting, whimsical narrative. He claims that the message of Peter Pan is that by traveling to the British colonies, one can \u201crecapture lost time and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/earthy-possessions\/\" title=\"Earthy Possessions\">lost youth<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While recent adaptations have tried to add more non-white actors, Berlatsky insists that \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-15\/\" title=\"Education Insanity: Top 10 Stories Of The Week (Vol. 15)\">colonial framework<\/a> is still in force.\u201d He charges that recent adaptations \u201cbecome tales of White women going on an adventure to educate and elevate non-White people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Need for Change<\/h3>\n<p>Berlatsky concludes by expressing appreciation for recent adaptations\u2019 attempts to address the issues of racism and colonialism. However, he maintains that Peter Pan \u201cwas created in important ways out of racism, and no one in film has yet figured out how to make him fly free of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The matter comes as more and more attempts at pushing \u201cwoke\u201d ideology are continuously deemed insufficient. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racism and colonialism are \u201cbuilt into the workings\u201d of the Peter Pan story, according to a CNN opinion piece slamming the new Disney film despite its diverse cast and inclusion of girls in the \u201cLost Boys,\u201d as it claimed switching to non-white actors \u201cisn\u2019t enough\u201d to address its core issues. The Friday CNN op-ed, titled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925551,"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":[547],"tags":[5354,4856,9373,11601,13648,20051,5815,5243,5558],"class_list":["post-1925550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-actors","tag-claims","tag-cnn","tag-disneys","tag-non-white","tag-pan","tag-peter","tag-racism","tag-woke"],"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\/1925550","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}