Just a few days after people acknowledge that a costume of the demigod Maui being manufactured and sold by Disneyincluded a bodysuit of tattoos and darker skin , Disney has removed the costume from stores , both physical and online .
If you do n’t recall the costume ( or missed it ) , here you go :
And seem at it makes it moderately vindicated that a blanched kid wearing this thing was going to terminate up literally wearing dark tegument as a costume . Plus , selling a costume of a fibre from Polynesian mythology was on dicey ground in the first place , since people were already leery of Moana appropriating Polynesian finish for profit . All and all , it seems Disney should have take in this coming earlier , but at least they ’ve pull it from shelves , and made this command :
The squad behind Moana has taken great care to respect the cultures of the Pacific Islands that inspired the celluloid , and we repent that the Maui costume has violate some . We sincerely rationalize and are pull the costume from our website and stores .
It ’s decent that they ’re not just pulling the costume , but in reality apologizing . Especially since Moana does take care like a good movie and one where almost all of the articulation actors playing Polynesians are actually Polynesian . Disney has actually put to work really hard to do diversity in their animation correctly for the film , which makes this misapprehension even more disgraceful . Pulling the costume and apologizing was absolutely the veracious thing to do here .
[ EW ]
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