a woke Snow White?

 there are photos running around the internet of the cast of a Disney remake of Snow White, starring a Hiapanic and seven ethnically correct men (or rather people of uncertain sex) that includes only one dwarf.

EXCLUSIVE Snow White and the Seven... Politically-Correct Companions? https://t.co/gOantUJDEQ pic.twitter.com/Gn8NpFIEKP

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) July 14, 2023

Sigh.

A Hispanic Snow White? Why?

If you want to tell the Spanish version of Snow white, then tell the Spanish version of Snow White. (There is one called BlancaNieves, where Snow White becomes a bullfighter like her father).

except, of course that wouldn't be PC either (bullfighter? PETA would object, and besides the last time I looked Spanish people are Europeans).

Or how about an American remake of Snow White with a modern plot similar to the K Drama the K2. which uses the plot line but puts it into the modern world and tells the story from the huntsmans point of view?

Cartoons are fantasy: they can tell fantasy plots and be believable.

Put Snow White into the reality of the medieval world with disease, poverty and starvation as a real threat would be too glum for modern eyes.

But rewrite it as PC culture means either a complete rewrite or to make it absurd and distorts the story.

This is wrong on many levels.

First of all, being white is not an ethnic thing: Here in the Philippines the girls use skin whitener to look like their pale skinned K Drama heroines.

It's not purely a racial thing: white skin implies that you are rich, meaning you don't have to go outside to weed the garden, feed the chickens, or carry water from the city well. So you don't get sunburned and your skin is pale 

(the opposite to this idea is the word Redneck: a slur that implies that the man is poor and uneducated because his neck gets sunburned from working in the fields all day instead of sitting inside a cushy office).

as for the multiethnic dwarves: They get this wrong too.

People who were poor worked in the mines, and children who worked in the mines tended to be growth stunted (and the children of miners often were malnourished and small too). 

So who did she find to take her in? Poor folk of course. In the fairy tale, they were small miners aka dwarves.  You know: outcasts.

But there is a symbolism to make the rescuers dwarves, because in Northern European tales,dwarfs had a bad reputation in folk tales. They are evil and greedy and hoard gold, and in a lot of fairy tales there is the idea that it was okay to trick them and steal from them.(Rumplestilskin and Wagner's Ring cycle come to mind))(place anti Semetic meme here). This changed in the 1930s, when the Hobbit and Disney's Snow White reframed Dwarves into stubborn but essentially good people. 

Fairy tales tend to have a lot of subliminal messages like this. Indeed, a lot of traditional Disney cartoons have a multi layer mythology that teach children a lot of lessons that are embeeded in the story in a way they teach you without shoving the message down your throat.

So they help children cope with the difficulties of growing up.

Snow White is beautiful, and persecuted for this. 

Any girl can tell you how things like this are behind the nastiness in high school and the back stabbling by women in charge of things at work.So Snow White's story tells girls hurt this way it's not their fault: the bullies are the ones who have problems. (the films Heathers and Carrie come to mind)

The second lesson is that indirect killing lets you ignore you are guilty, but in the long run fate will punish you. So at the end, the evil queen is killed in an accident and Snow White lives happily ever after.

But the queen's choice to get rid of a rival isn't the only moral choice in the movie.

The first attempt to kill Snow White was to hire a hit man (aka the huntsman).

But the guy had pity on her chose not to do this. Instead, he saved her life at the risk of his own life and one suspects he will save his soul because of this deed  (the theme of the Master Gardiner by the way).

Third, Snow White is essentially rescued by strangers, who offer her a job and a place to live.

this lesson is applicable to today's world where millions of people are fleeing violence and war and are asking strangers to help them. The dwarves in Snow White are rewarded when she turns out to be a princess, (Hebrews 13:2) but when they took her in, they didn't know this.

Next lesson: Yes, you are rescued but you still need to work to survive.

Notice she is willing to work? That is also a theme: yes, you accept charity, but to become part of the community, you have to do your share of the work. 

again, given the fact that most immigrants find jobs and are willing workers is one of the lessons missing from the present day arguments over immigration.

And finally, the lesson is that one does not just work, but one becomes part of the community and  eventually part of a family. (In the Heights, West Side Story, and numerous other stories in old time movies)

Yes, family. 

Snow White essentially becomes the mother or older sister of these men, caring for them by keeping the house clean and cooking so they can come home not just to food, but to a family meal with those they love. Presumably she gets to know all the other families and shop keepers in the area.

The next lesson is that that you can't just flee from evil: it must be defeated.

The evil queen finds where she is, and arranged her to be poisoned. and in the end, dies in a messy accidnet.

Again, any number of films echo the bad guys finding the person who ruined their plans and went back to kill them. But in the fairy tale, mercy by an unknown person means the poison partly works, so she survives in a coma.

and finally, of course, we have the prince who falls in love with her and wakes her up with a kiss.

Whoops. NOT PC. He didn't ask permission. 

But of course, this is about a young girl whose sexuality is awakened with the kiss.

Remember the good old days when kids were protected from groomers teaching them pornography in grade school? You know: like most of the world today and the US until about five years ago? 

Snow white is a young teenager, and the dwaves are men, but men who were brought up to protect women. 

So the prince kisses her and this awakens her to love. Or is it sex? Why not both? 

No one doesn't see this in a lot of American movies, where jumping in and out of bed is the norm, but in the good old days courting and kissing had more meaning to a person.

I am amused that in K dramas, often there is a scene where the woman is saved from falling or being hit by a car by the handsome hero she loves but who never noticed her before, and in the accident they embrace... after that scene, everyone knows they will soon become a couple, because sexual attraction has awakened their interest in each other.

So Snow White and her prince marry and live happily ever after.

Hmm... a theme so against the meme being pushed on society by the woke that it might result in a slew of bad reviews (but earn a lot of money at the box office).