Problematic Disney Movies That’ll Make You Question Your Childhood

‘The Lion King’

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

In “The Lion King,” the hyenas are villains who speak urban slang. One is mentally handicapped, one’s voiced by a black actor and the other’s voiced by a Mexican actor. Anti-immigrant bigotry abounds. They’re depicted as outsiders beneath contempt, banished to the elephant graveyard and banned from crossing the border to Pride Rock where all of the food is.

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