During my french class today, we were talking about Alphonse Daudet. Somehow, someone compared him to Victor Hugo and an idiot on the other end of the room just asked "Who's Victor Hugo?". After my teacher stared a couple daggers at him, she explained that he is the greatest french author, having written Les Miserables and the Hunchback of Notre Dame. A girl named Annie then said "isn't the book like...really sad?"
Here's where I stepped in. After giving a brief synopsis of the book, I was quiet, then my teacher said "yep, another example of Disney ruining the story"
I had no idea how many people love Disney in my class. Probably 7 or 8 people just sprand up like "WHOA WHAT?!". That's when the jewish guy, Noah, just chimed in "yeah, Disney was a racist anti semite"
From then on, I started my argument. Beyond the obvious racism and terrible life lessons, I brought up the fact that Disney's moral universes are awful, because beauty is the sole virtue in any story. I spent the next 45 minutes in the argument, the 6 girls defending Disney without a chance, while the teacher and I got to shoot them down and gleefully make Disney evil.
best french class ever.
Here's where I stepped in. After giving a brief synopsis of the book, I was quiet, then my teacher said "yep, another example of Disney ruining the story"
I had no idea how many people love Disney in my class. Probably 7 or 8 people just sprand up like "WHOA WHAT?!". That's when the jewish guy, Noah, just chimed in "yeah, Disney was a racist anti semite"
From then on, I started my argument. Beyond the obvious racism and terrible life lessons, I brought up the fact that Disney's moral universes are awful, because beauty is the sole virtue in any story. I spent the next 45 minutes in the argument, the 6 girls defending Disney without a chance, while the teacher and I got to shoot them down and gleefully make Disney evil.
best french class ever.
