Talk about spitting on your ancestors.
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Walt Disney’s grandniece agrees with Meryl Streep
Abigail Disney has mixed feelings on her great uncle
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By Gregory Wakeman | Yahoo Contributor Network – 13 hours ago..
Walt Disney's name is currently being dragged through the mud.
Yahoo Contributor Network - Walt Disney's name is currently being dragged through the mud
COMMENT| Walt Disney's grandniece, Abigail Disney, clearly wasn't a big fan of her great uncle, as she has echoed Meryl Streep's controversial comments regarding the animation icon.
Abigail, who is a filmmaker/social activist, took to Facebook to reveal that she was only just coming to grips with Streep's criticism of Disney. The Hollywood Reporter noted that she has "mixed feelings" regarding Walt, but that she ultimately "loved" the acting legend's remarks.
Abigail decided to post two Facebook statuses on Friday regarding the issue. She revealed that she supported Streep, but she also had some scathing words for 'Saving Mr Banks' too.
"I hadn't heard a word about this Meryl Streep/Walt Disney flap till this morning," she wrote. "Funny how no one mentioned it to me.... Like I was living in some kind of information bubble and nobody wanted to hurt my feelings or something. But if anyone is going to have mixed feelings about a cultural icon, wouldn't it be a member of the family??? More than anyone else??? "
She continued, "And if you are going to have mixed feelings about a family member (and we all do) take it from me, you really need to be as honest as possible about those feelings, or else you are going to lead yourself into many a blind alley in life!! ... Anti-Semite? Check. Misogynist? OF COURSE!! Racist? C'mon he made a film (Jungle Book) about how you should stay 'with your own kind' at the height of the fight over segregation! As if the 'King of the Jungle' number wasn't proof enough!! How much more information do you need?"
Abigail did concede one matter though, "But damn, he was hella good at making films and his work has made billions of people happy. There's no denying it. So there ya go. Mixed feelings up the wazoo."
10 hours later Abigail posted, "I feel I have to clarify. I LOVED what Meryl Streep said. I know he was a man of his times and I can forgive him, but 'Saving Mr Banks' was a brazen attempt by the company to make a saint out of the man. A devil he was not. Nor an angel. That's the point and if you read ALL her remarks you'll know that's exactly what she was getting at."
On January 7th Streep called Walt a racist, sexist and ant-Semite, which led some co-workers of Disney to come out in defence of the former studio head.
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