In honor of today's discussion on race, evil, and Aladdin, a interwebz finds:
It's easy to say that Aladdin -- one Disney movie -- didn't affect our perceptions of Middle Eastern cultures, but...it is part of a trend in 90s media. The problem may not be "one Disney movie, aimed at kids" -- but if that movie is part of a pattern of repeated portrayals of Middle Easterners as oppressive, cruel, barbaric, and evil? Perhaps that's why we have things like "a Muslim-travel-ban-that-isn't-about-religion."
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