Disney heiress slams great uncle Walt: ‘He bordered on rabid fascism’

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Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast last week.The wealthy film producer and activist spoke with Maron about her new documentary that takes aim at her family’s company, called “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales,” as well as her family’s battle with addiction.Disney told Maron that while her great uncle Walt was a “chaotic genius,” he and his brother played up prejudices of the time. “They weren’t shy about delving into the stereotypes if it served them,” she said.The Post reached out to the Disney company for comment.The heiress noted that Disney positioned the wolf from the “Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf” as a a “Jewish peddler” and named one of the wisecracking black crows from “Dumbo” Jim Crow.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called out Disney when he made “Song of the South,” a 1946 film set in the Reconstruction-era American south that reinforced racist stereotypes.“When they made ‘Song of the South,’ people from the NAACP came to the studio and they said ‘please don’t do it this way.

Please talk to us,'” she said, noting that her family pushed forward any way.“In some enclosed way Disney is an American fascist fantasy,” Maron said. “Well yeah that’s what it is– and it isn’t,” she replied. “They were men of their time but that’s not an excuse….they knew.”In recent years, the company has worked to scrub any traces of its controversial past, removing racist themes from “Song of the South” and updating “Splash Mountain,” the ride inspired by the movie.

It also took its Jungle Cruise out of operation to update and get rid of negative racial stereotypes of native people — and it even removed Walt Disney’s iconic opening day speech, which it has featured every year since 1955 at.