Post by twdisneyman on Feb 19, 2023 9:28:46 GMT
This petition was created by Laila Jerming Graf
President of The Danish Donaldist Society“
Please see below on how to submit your name. It expires today at 3pm.
So if you want to put your signature on the letter - send an email to lailajesp@hotmail.com with your name and nationality. What country you live in.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do not message Don Rosa about this petition. He is merely an observer and is not taking part. Also, please do not message me or reply asking me to be added. I am trying to get this onto as many Disney comics message boards as I can, so I need any spare time I can get to do this.
As an aside Panini has already canceled plans to release the Scrooge Life and Times for later this year. The 2 Don Rosa Library fantagraphic books with the stories volume 5 and 10 are now out of stock. And this is a worldwide ban according to Don.
This is cut and pasted from Lalia's petition from Don Rosa's official facebook group.
“I hope this post is okay..."
As you may have read in this group or heard otherwise, Disney has decided to censor the Disney/Donald Duck cartoons.
Among other things, two of Don Rosa's stories (and the original Bark's story) are banned because Disney believes that the zombie is an expression of racism.
Specifically, their censorship means that stories that Disney no longer cares about cannot be reprinted again.
Which again quite concretely means an eternal goodbye to e.g. Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck as Chapter 11 is one of the now banned stories!!!
The Danish Donaldist Society does not like that kind of censorship of our history, our culture and our beloved Ducks.
If Disney finally finds problems with individual stories, then it should be able to be handled in the same way as they do with their feature films – by coming up with a disclaimer beforehand.
We therefore intend to make an attempt to influence Disney in that direction.
Does it help?
Maybe not.
But we will not watch in silence.
We are therefore sending the following letter to Disney - for the time being on behalf of the Danish Donaldist Society, Ankistit - Finish Donaldist Society and Carl Barks Fan Club. We have also reached out to the Swedish, German and Italian Donaldists.
But we also welcome individual co-signatories - because the more we are, the more impact we have!
So if you want to put your signature on the letter - write your name and nationality below - or send me an email at lailajesp@hotmail.com
We need to get it completed and sent off, so the deadline for submitting your signature is Sunday, February 19 at 3 p.m.
I hope many people want to put their vote in the pool!
The letter we intend to send is the following:
To The Walt Disney Company
On behalf of all the Duck societies and all the duck fans from around the globe listed at the bottom, I hereby send The Walt Disney Company a request, to reconsider the decision regarding banning certain Donald Duck stories from being published in the future.
We acknowledge that standards off which things can be viewed as offensive may differ from country to country, and we understand The Walt Disney Company’s considerations on how things may be viewed by different readers and hence which signals The Walt Disney Company is sending out to its readership.
But caution and censorship are two very different reactions and, in this situation we find that censorship is the wrong solution.
By banning stories written in the past, you take away the possibility for readers - eg. parents that read to their children - to discuss how the world has evolved and why this realization is so important.
At the same time, you take away cultural literature that has played a very important role of many peoples life particularly in Europe.
When for example you ban the 11th chapter in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck you remove an integral part of one of the most influential and important Duck comics of all time – a highly awarded and loved comic tale that actually became the survival of Donald Duck comics all over Europe and which for many of the people under the age of 40 was their introduction to the Disney comic universe.
Without this comic – and many others – on the market, the world would be a poorer place.
The world has changed and we acknowledge this, but The Walt Disney Company has already created an informative and elegant solution regarding your movies – and we only ask, that you will employ the same solution for our beloved comics.
By introducing an informative notice at your start certain comics, you will make the readers think of what they are reading and thereby stop up for a second and acknowledge the different world we live in – and how we arrived to this point in time. This would have a positive influence on the readers to come.
By withdrawing the comics from the market, you will not only remove stories loved by many people, you will also remove the opportunity to impact and teach the readers.
As we hope you will listen to our prayers – sincerely yours
Laila Jerming Graf
President
The Danish Donaldist Society“
President of The Danish Donaldist Society“
Please see below on how to submit your name. It expires today at 3pm.
So if you want to put your signature on the letter - send an email to lailajesp@hotmail.com with your name and nationality. What country you live in.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do not message Don Rosa about this petition. He is merely an observer and is not taking part. Also, please do not message me or reply asking me to be added. I am trying to get this onto as many Disney comics message boards as I can, so I need any spare time I can get to do this.
As an aside Panini has already canceled plans to release the Scrooge Life and Times for later this year. The 2 Don Rosa Library fantagraphic books with the stories volume 5 and 10 are now out of stock. And this is a worldwide ban according to Don.
This is cut and pasted from Lalia's petition from Don Rosa's official facebook group.
“I hope this post is okay..."
As you may have read in this group or heard otherwise, Disney has decided to censor the Disney/Donald Duck cartoons.
Among other things, two of Don Rosa's stories (and the original Bark's story) are banned because Disney believes that the zombie is an expression of racism.
Specifically, their censorship means that stories that Disney no longer cares about cannot be reprinted again.
Which again quite concretely means an eternal goodbye to e.g. Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck as Chapter 11 is one of the now banned stories!!!
The Danish Donaldist Society does not like that kind of censorship of our history, our culture and our beloved Ducks.
If Disney finally finds problems with individual stories, then it should be able to be handled in the same way as they do with their feature films – by coming up with a disclaimer beforehand.
We therefore intend to make an attempt to influence Disney in that direction.
Does it help?
Maybe not.
But we will not watch in silence.
We are therefore sending the following letter to Disney - for the time being on behalf of the Danish Donaldist Society, Ankistit - Finish Donaldist Society and Carl Barks Fan Club. We have also reached out to the Swedish, German and Italian Donaldists.
But we also welcome individual co-signatories - because the more we are, the more impact we have!
So if you want to put your signature on the letter - write your name and nationality below - or send me an email at lailajesp@hotmail.com
We need to get it completed and sent off, so the deadline for submitting your signature is Sunday, February 19 at 3 p.m.
I hope many people want to put their vote in the pool!
The letter we intend to send is the following:
To The Walt Disney Company
On behalf of all the Duck societies and all the duck fans from around the globe listed at the bottom, I hereby send The Walt Disney Company a request, to reconsider the decision regarding banning certain Donald Duck stories from being published in the future.
We acknowledge that standards off which things can be viewed as offensive may differ from country to country, and we understand The Walt Disney Company’s considerations on how things may be viewed by different readers and hence which signals The Walt Disney Company is sending out to its readership.
But caution and censorship are two very different reactions and, in this situation we find that censorship is the wrong solution.
By banning stories written in the past, you take away the possibility for readers - eg. parents that read to their children - to discuss how the world has evolved and why this realization is so important.
At the same time, you take away cultural literature that has played a very important role of many peoples life particularly in Europe.
When for example you ban the 11th chapter in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck you remove an integral part of one of the most influential and important Duck comics of all time – a highly awarded and loved comic tale that actually became the survival of Donald Duck comics all over Europe and which for many of the people under the age of 40 was their introduction to the Disney comic universe.
Without this comic – and many others – on the market, the world would be a poorer place.
The world has changed and we acknowledge this, but The Walt Disney Company has already created an informative and elegant solution regarding your movies – and we only ask, that you will employ the same solution for our beloved comics.
By introducing an informative notice at your start certain comics, you will make the readers think of what they are reading and thereby stop up for a second and acknowledge the different world we live in – and how we arrived to this point in time. This would have a positive influence on the readers to come.
By withdrawing the comics from the market, you will not only remove stories loved by many people, you will also remove the opportunity to impact and teach the readers.
As we hope you will listen to our prayers – sincerely yours
Laila Jerming Graf
President
The Danish Donaldist Society“