Cogent or Fallacious 4

I wanted to step outside the box a little this week by looking at the other forms of multimedia.  After trying some of the more reliable sources I wanted something with a little more humor, so I tried Facebook.  It did not take me long before I landed on this story about a woman claiming that Disney was racist.  The claim is that Disney is racist because they only use white princesses.

The mere thought of this is wonderfully funny because all you have to do is go to Disneyland to see for yourself.  If you look at their employees you will see that white people are the minority.  If you look at all of the Princesses walking around you will notice Princesses Jasmine, Pocahontas, Esmeralda and Tiana, along with all of the others.

One man dared to go against this gal who most likely was a troll from some blog as defined by Eric Young.  He said that the main reason why we were seeing the Princesses white were because of Disney sticking to the authentic ethnicity of the story.  He related that Rapunzel is a German story; Frozen is a story by Hans Christian Anderson who is Danish.  The same can be said about Brave that was set in Scotland.  If we were talking about something else then Disney would have created it as so.  Oh wait a minute they did.

Based off of this woman’s reasoning her ideas and claim are completely fallacious and unwarranted.   The reasoning of the gentleman who wrote his rebuttal to her was cogent in the fact that if we were to take any ethnic story and make it real we would have to take the animals, clothing, plants, hair styles and even the wording of phrases into consideration.  By doing this Disney would make it more culturally correct.