![]() ![]() ![]() Zootopia isn’t a perfect movie about bias, but it is the perfect opportunity for you to talk about these issues with your children. If you want a Disney movie to do all the work of explaining bias to your kids for you, then this isn’t it. Perhaps as a result, much of the writing about Zootopia has run the gamut from “this is the best racial commentary ever” to “this is the worst.” It is neither, in my view. There is something really disturbing about the way the animals are sorted according to their biology, with some reverting back to their inherent “savagery.” Also, the relationship between prejudice in the movie and real-world racism is not entirely clear Zootopia does not have much to say about power or exploitation. Now, I’m not saying that the movie is perfect. It did this with compelling characters and by echoing words we often use in conversations about race and bias: “well I didn’t mean to,” “don’t be sensitive,” “they shouldn’t be here.” It speaks directly to our heated political climate, however imperfectly. The movie turned out to be explicitly about bias of all types, from unconscious prejudice to a “we don’t serve your kind” attitude to the deliberate cultivation of fear to achieve political power. Did other folks catch that? Was that actually a line just for me, a black woman, about what can be said within a group but not without? Surely that was a blip?īut it wasn’t. ![]()
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