Finally, our corporate overlords have taken on the scourge of racism against magical creatures!
New set photos from woke behemoth Disney’s live-action remake of animated classic “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” suggest they’ve done it largely without the dwarfs.
Grumpy, Dopey, Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful, Happy and Doc — who have delighted kids for decades — seem like they’re getting the ax in favor of some generic “magical creatures.”
Why?
Well, they were all men, all white and — worst of all — they perpetuated harmful stereotypes against forest-dwelling, pointy hat-wearing, nonexistent fairytale beings.
“Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage, who has dwarfism, seemingly started off the whole stupid affair back in 2022 when he whined in the press: “You’re still making that f–king backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together. What the f–k are you doing, man? Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox?”
Huh? Does Dinklage seriously think people have ever confused the cartoon dwarfs in the movie with, you know, actual human beings?
Snow White’s dwarfs don’t even live in a cave! They have a snug, well-appointed house.
To say nothing of the fact that they’re the moral center of the movie.
It’s not stereotyping; rather, like all fairy tales, it uses the unreal to illuminate the far-too-real world we do inhabit.
Insanely, Disney seems to have listened.
And in the fall, the new Snow White, breakout “West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler, got in on the action: “People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it’s like, yeah, it is, because it needed that.”
No, it didn’t.
It’s a cartoon. About magic spells, fate and true love.
It doesn’t need to be brought into line with our new, Twitter-driven Hays Code.
Dinklage and Zegler spouting off like this, and Disney caving, makes as much sense as AARP denouncing the portrayal of the hideous crone-witch in the film as stereotyping old people.
So speak up, audiences! Woke corporations fold like cheap suits the moment they face consumer blowback.
Just witness the ongoing Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney fiasco.
Go microwave some popcorn and watch the classic Snow White tonight.