Interesting facts on original Dumb release by Disney in 1941, all of which call into question cancel culture attitudes now:
1. The movie as released was rated G [G is for General Audiences — all ages admitted, meaning there is nothing in theme, language, nudity, sex, violence or other matters that the ratings board thinks woulds offend parents whose younger children view the picture.
2. The main crow's name was never mentioned by name in the film as released.
3. The main crow character was originally named "Jim Crow" in original sheets, but was changed to Dandy Crow as released. On this point, considering the primary targeted audience [children], who among them would have, a. racially fixed a name never mentioned in the film, or, b. understood that Jim Crow was a historically bad memory? Further, just a guess, but is it really likely that whoever first named the crow "Jim" thought through ramifications of such a first name associated with a real person a half-century earlier, and which just happened to be a bird with jet-black feathers when, c. the bird's presence in the film, leading a flock of the same birds, are friendly toward the main character; a baby, at that, d. "crow" is a bird species, and not a name in particular with any meaning whatsoever.
4. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant"
And, as always, I will mention that the Constitution's 1A has the unwritten caveat, due to the freedom of speech, that we each have the right to be offended, but that does not condone censorship as a response.
