Post by twdisneyman on Feb 28, 2023 1:48:36 GMT
See below.
Please note: Do not contact Don about this petition. He is merely an observer and has nothing to do with it.
Likewise please don’t contact me asking to be added.
If you want to be added please email Laila Jerming Graf President of the Danish Donaldist Society at lailajesp@hotmail.com
SECOND EDIT:
The letter is now send by mail. 4 organizations and 667 individuals from 35 countries ended up being to co-signers of this letter.
I hope it at least will make them think this over just once more.
Thanks for all the help and support!
Now, all we can do is to cross our fingers and hope!
_____________________________________
EDIT:
By request, I have decided to extend the deadline for signing the letter. The new deadline is Sunday at 3 p.m
______________________________________________
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, NAFS(K) - The Swedish Donaldist Society, Ankistit - Finish Donaldist Society and Carl Barks Fan Club. We have also reached out to the 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 this request to reconsider the decision to ban certain Donald Duck stories from being published in the future.
We acknowledge that standards for 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 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 who 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 culturally significant literature that has played a very important role in the lives of many people, 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 much beloved comic tale which played a big part in 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 you at The Walt Disney Company have already created an informative and elegant solution that you use at the start of your movies – and we only ask, that you employ the same solution in our beloved comics.
By introducing an informative statement at the start of certain comics, you would make the readers think of what they are reading and thereby pause and acknowledge the different world we live in – and how we arrived at this point in time. This would have a positive influence on future generation of readers.
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.
We hope you will listen to our request.
Sincerely yours
Laila Jerming Graf
President
The Danish Donaldist Society
Please note: Do not contact Don about this petition. He is merely an observer and has nothing to do with it.
Likewise please don’t contact me asking to be added.
If you want to be added please email Laila Jerming Graf President of the Danish Donaldist Society at lailajesp@hotmail.com
SECOND EDIT:
The letter is now send by mail. 4 organizations and 667 individuals from 35 countries ended up being to co-signers of this letter.
I hope it at least will make them think this over just once more.
Thanks for all the help and support!
Now, all we can do is to cross our fingers and hope!
_____________________________________
EDIT:
By request, I have decided to extend the deadline for signing the letter. The new deadline is Sunday at 3 p.m
______________________________________________
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, NAFS(K) - The Swedish Donaldist Society, Ankistit - Finish Donaldist Society and Carl Barks Fan Club. We have also reached out to the 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 this request to reconsider the decision to ban certain Donald Duck stories from being published in the future.
We acknowledge that standards for 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 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 who 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 culturally significant literature that has played a very important role in the lives of many people, 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 much beloved comic tale which played a big part in 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 you at The Walt Disney Company have already created an informative and elegant solution that you use at the start of your movies – and we only ask, that you employ the same solution in our beloved comics.
By introducing an informative statement at the start of certain comics, you would make the readers think of what they are reading and thereby pause and acknowledge the different world we live in – and how we arrived at this point in time. This would have a positive influence on future generation of readers.
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.
We hope you will listen to our request.
Sincerely yours
Laila Jerming Graf
President
The Danish Donaldist Society