Dennis Prager Show - "He cannot revive her from coma without her consent!" - Breaking down the Snow White controversy
Aired: 2021-05-07
Duration: 09:09


=== Prince Charming's Problematic Kiss (03:45) ===

[00:00:01]  Snow White is facing backlash over Snow White and Prince Charming's kiss while she's asleep.
[00:00:11]  The classic Disney story goes like this.
[00:00:14]  Snow White is poisoned by an evil queen and falls into a comatose state.
[00:00:19]  That is until Prince Charming's true love's kiss breaks the spell and they live happily ever after.
[00:00:29]  SFGate.
[00:00:30]  Is that the San Francisco Chronicle?
[00:00:34]  Managing editor.
[00:00:36]  Managing editor of a major city newspaper.
[00:00:40]  Get that?
[00:00:42]  And reporter Julie Tremaine wrote an article explaining while the ride itself is really good, the famous kiss is problematic.
[00:00:55]  Dowd and Tremaine argue Prince Charming is shown kissing Snow White without her consent, and it, quote, cannot possibly, unquote, be true love.
[00:01:06]  It's hard to understand why the Disneyland of 2021 would choose to add a scene with such old-fashioned ideas of what a man is allowed to do to a woman.
[00:01:19]  Dowd and Tremaine wrote in the article, Yes, can you imagine that?
[00:01:27]  He cannot revive her from coma without her consent.
[00:01:35]  What a lowlife, Prince Charming.
[00:01:38]  If that's not rape culture, I don't know what is.
[00:01:43]  For anybody who ever says the world would be better if it were governed by women, just look at what left-wing women are doing to the society at this time.
[00:01:53]  And I think you'll revamp your theory on that.
[00:01:57]  Both sexes are capable of destroying society in their own ways and in the same ways.
[00:02:05]  These are two fools who work at the San Francisco Chronicle.
[00:02:09]  Two childish, afraid of life, joyless human beings.
[00:02:15]  And of course Disneyland will undoubtedly cower to them.
[00:02:23]  Chris Charming gives her a kiss while she's in a coma.
[00:02:29]  By the way, let's say they were married.
[00:02:36]  Why isn't that, according to the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle, date rape?
[00:02:42]  No, excuse me, marital rape.
[00:02:45]  You shouldn't be able to kiss your wife when she's in a coma.
[00:02:50]  Correct?
[00:02:52]  Didn't get her consent?
[00:02:56]  I think everybody should have like a living will.
[00:03:00]  Should I be in a coma, I give my husband permission to kiss me.
[00:03:11]  Right.
[00:03:12]  Especially if that brings me out of the coma.
[00:03:18]  The criticism follows changes to other Disney Park rides deemed offensive and racist.
[00:03:25]  Splash Mountain will be replaced with a ride featuring The Princess and The Frog, a 2009 animated film featuring Tiana, the studio's first black princess.

=== Society's Hammer Blows (02:18) ===

[00:03:39]  Last June, Splash Mountain's storyline was adapted from the 1946 movie Song of the South, which was found to have racist undertones.
[00:03:48]  But what exactly was wrong?
[00:03:50]  I have no idea.
[00:03:51]  Do you know?
[00:03:51]  Do you know anything about Splash Mountain?
[00:03:57]  An old Goldrush rollercoaster ride.
[00:04:00]  And liberals still think that the enemy of the society is the right.
[00:04:11]  Thank you.
[00:04:14]  There is literally nothing the left can do.
[00:04:19]  I would have them realize that they're destroying society.
[00:04:22]  It just happens one hammer blow at a time.
[00:04:30]  You know, it's not only joyless.
[00:04:33]  There is another aspect that I have often mentioned about the left.
[00:04:38]  They are scared.
[00:04:42]  Is it any wonder that there is such a division between left and right with regard to masks?
[00:04:47]  With regard to COVID in general, about the fear of getting sick and dying, the left fears life and death more.
[00:04:57]  This is fear.
[00:05:01]  Oh my God, a man may do this.
[00:05:08]  Let's protect ourselves.
[00:05:11]  So what will you have left?
[00:05:14]  What they want is a risk-free society.
[00:05:18]  Get it?
[00:05:20]  These spoiled brats of the left want a risk-free society.
[00:05:29]  You cannot fail.
[00:05:31]  That's why they devised trophies for participating.
[00:05:35]  Just always feel good and safe.

=== Disney's Dilemma (03:32) ===

[00:05:38]  Safe.
[00:05:39]  Be safe.
[00:05:40]  When did Americans ever say, be safe?
[00:05:45]  Be safe.
[00:05:47]  You want a safe life?
[00:05:49]  It's not worth living.
[00:05:55]  Another popular ride, the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland and Disney World was critiqued for its depiction of indigenous people.
[00:06:03]  And Disney announced early this year the attraction would be updated.
[00:06:10]  I have no idea.
[00:06:11]  Do you know anything about indigenous people on the Jungle Cruise?
[00:06:18]  They're statues of native people.
[00:06:22]  Not everyone agrees with the criticism, this is again from the USA Today article, surrounding the Snow White ride.
[00:06:31]  Fox News host Todd Pirro.
[00:06:34]  Shared his take on Monday.
[00:06:36]  He said Prince Charming's kiss on a poisoned Snow White was comparable to someone needing CPR. Sounds right to me.
[00:06:46]  He revived her.
[00:06:53]  Well...
[00:06:54]  Let me just say this.
[00:06:58]  Should I ever be in a coma?
[00:07:00]  Sean, you have permission to kiss me.
[00:07:03]  Just for the record.
[00:07:07]  I don't think anybody is looking at the Prince Charming Kiss of Snow White and saying, boy, that's a microcosm of date rape culture in college.
[00:07:16]  I'm not saying that date rape culture in college is a positive thing.
[00:07:19]  You see what you have to add all the time?
[00:07:23]  I have a little daughter right upstairs here in my home.
[00:07:26]  Absolutely don't want that.
[00:07:28]  But let's disaggregate this.
[00:07:31]  This is a cartoon.
[00:07:33]  This is a fable for many, many years.
[00:07:36]  It is not what we all fear as dads of daughters.
[00:07:41]  While some saw nothing wrong with the kiss, it led other families to feel uneasy.
[00:07:47]  When Disneyland's doors reopened on April 30th, following a 400-day closure due to the COVID pandemic, Amanda Cruz said she and her 8-year-old son were among the first in line to enter.
[00:08:02]  Although an avid Disneyland goer, Cruz, said Snow White and Pris Charming's kiss led to an uncomfortable conversation with her son.
[00:08:13]  It did?
[00:08:17]  Well, I actually have a theory on the uncomfortable conversation.
[00:08:22]  I don't know if I should share it.
[00:08:26]  Like, how did I get you as a mother?
[00:08:30]  That was just dark humor, folks.
[00:08:32]  Just dark humor.
[00:08:35]  Cruz said he asked her, why did they only kiss when she was asleep?
[00:08:41]  I don't believe it.
[00:08:44]  No eight-year-old boy in the history of humanity would have asked that question.
[00:08:48]  I don't believe it.
[00:08:51]  She noted 2021 is the year topics of consent and racism are discussed at home.
[00:08:57]  Poor kid.
[00:08:58]  But not reflected in amusement parks.
[00:09:01]  See?
[00:09:01]  This woman would like amusement parks to politicize.
[00:09:05]  Of course.
[00:09:06]  There's no safe space.
[00:09:07]  That's the irony.