{"id":28708,"date":"2019-05-08T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T03:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28708"},"modified":"2019-05-08T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T03:15:09","slug":"briefly-busybodies-force-disney-to-drop-siamese-cats-from-lady-and-the-tramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28708","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Busybodies force Disney to drop Siamese cats from \u2018Lady and the Tramp\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Lady-and-the-Tramp-Siamese-cats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28709\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Lady-and-the-Tramp-Siamese-cats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Lady-and-the-Tramp-Siamese-cats.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Lady-and-the-Tramp-Siamese-cats-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Busybodies with bad ideas are destroying modern culture with their constant claims of being offended. More people need to point out \u2014 clearly and politely \u2014 that many of the ideas of the outraged are moronic and need to be ignored. I\u2019m sick of a tiny politically motivated group of people pushing their views so aggressively that others end up kowtowing to them to avoid their wrath. Disney is the latest company to back down in the face of idiots. In the 1955 film, \u201cLady and the Tramp,\u201d two of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ly_vxI4nllA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">memorable characters<\/a> are a couple of conniving Siamese cats. They were great, and if you know cats, you know they were being portrayed the way some cats \u2014 including Siamese \u2014 are frequently seen in real life. Social justice warriors have claimed that the cats reinforce <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/news\/lady-and-the-tramp-janelle-monae-revamp-siamese-cat-song-1203204041\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stereotypes of Asian characters<\/a> as conniving and duplicitous. Does anybody understand these are cats, not Asian people? If you think Asians are conniving, that\u2019s on you; it\u2019s not because of a couple of wonderful cartoon cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busybodies with bad ideas are destroying modern culture with their constant claims of being offended. More people need to point out \u2014 clearly and politely \u2014 that many of the ideas of the outraged are moronic and need to be ignored. 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