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Why the downvotes? From White Wilderness, as the movie shows drowning Lemmings, put there by Disney employees, the narrator goes: "And so is acted out, the le
by freeflight 8y ago
Why the downvotes?
From White Wilderness, as the movie shows drowning Lemmings, put there by Disney employees, the narrator goes:
"And so is acted out, the legend of mass suicide and destruction of a species."
https://youtu.be/xMZlr5Gf9yY?t=2m50s https://youtu.be/xMZlr5Gf9yY?t=2m50s
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- nck4222 8y ago>Why the downvotes? Probably because it's inaccurate/exaggerated in a couple ways. 1. Genocide refers to humans, not animals, and requires the act to be targeted at a group of people that share some sort of traits (typically race, or cultural identity). 2. Disney imported "no more than a few dozen lemmings," which doesn't really meet the numbers the word typically is used for. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness/ Disney killed lemmings, and unless they attempted to wipe out all lemmings that share a particular cultural identity, it's probably pretty insensitive to use it in this context.
- workinthehead 8y agoGenocide is by definition against a group having common genetic/ethnic identity. One might also consider that animals are people, too. However, I don't think you can make the case that Disney set out to wipe lemmings from the earthwe.