Yeah, I used to teach that one as part of my fourth grade fairy tale unit.
(not really)
Could be worse, you could teach 4th graders actual Angela Carter. 
I dunno, man, I’m not sure it could get any worse than Gaiman’s story. I mean, it’s amazing, but brrrrr
Anyone interested can google it–IIRC, there’s a copy of the story online.
What if it’s a doctor, whose achondroplastic patient says “I’m not happy.”? Like this guy.
You may be right.
@Qadgop_the_Mercotan apologized immediately in that case. I wonder if, twelve years later, he’d still make the same joke. I have great respect for Qadgop, but in that case, that’s not a choice I woulda made, for the reasons I’ve given here: it’s an example of dehumanizing humor, and while some folks are okay with it and don’t take it personally, others do.
There are modern pop culture leprechauns?
The first 6 starred Warwick Davis in the titular role.
I mean, we’re not talking vampires or zombies, but sure. Lucky Charms cereal and dumb horror movies, and St. Patrick’s Day sees them coming out in force. They’re definitely a part of modern pop culture.
Modern here means the last hundred years or so, yeah? So the Lucky Charms leprechaun or Disney’s Little People or the Notre Dame mascot all fall under the banner “modern”
The movie Sydney White was a Snow White take-off in which the Dwarf-equivalent characters were ordinary-sized men who simply were unpopular in college. (As I understand it, the title was originally supposed to be “Sydney White and the Seven Dorks.”)
I mean, it still works. The names of the dwarfs are personality traits, I’ve heard people make reference to them quite frequently without actually talking to or about people with dwarfism.
The joke works just fine, and the narrator is no longer being an asshole(other than making a joke after damaging someone’s property), if the driver that was hit is a person of normal size. It’s when the “joke” is directed at someone with dwarfism that it becomes problematic.
Obviously the solution herre is to just completely go in the other direction. The Seven Dwarfs should not be dwarfs at all; they should just be seven brothers whose last name happens to be “Dwarf,” so you’ll have Michael Dwarf, Antonio Dwarf, etc. In fact, not only should they not be dwarfs, they should be the most handsome and shredded celebrities money can buy. I’m talking guys like Chris Hemsworth, Simu Liu, and other men who clearly live in the gym. The only exception is that one of the Dwarf brothers should be Snoop Dwarf, played by Snoop (who is, at least, very tall) because honestly it would be great if Snow White was high as fuck for the entire film. The Dwarfs should be shirtless (except for Snoop) the entire movie and should work as male exotic dancers by night and personal trainers by day. “Heigh Ho” can be reworked by Snoop in hip hop form as “High Ho,” to which the other guys do a Magic Mike routine.
When the prince shows up and wakes up Snow White, she should take one look at him - a solid 7, maybe, played by a guy like Colin Jost - and then look at the Dwarf brothers, smile knowingly, and say “Nah, I’m good.”
Also throw in a few car chases and a gunfight.
Or the Notre Dame mascot.
There’s also the Spanish film, Blancanieves, where Snow White flees her murderous stepmother, and falls in with a group of (human) dwarfs who make a living on the bullfighting circuit, as a comedy act. Which was, apparently, a real thing back in the early 20th century, when the film is set. The film does a decent job of humanizing the dwarfs, though, and the tension between enjoying the limelight of being a performer, while being aware that the audience is mostly laughing at you, and not with you, is a minor theme.
Indeed, if you say "that book is horrible, it is full of racism " because a book is entitled “The Evil Blackness”, but the book is a fantasy novel and the blackness is a dark scourge over the land conjured by a evil wizard, but you saw the word “blackness” and assumed it was about black people, we can criticize your rant as it is based on ignorance.
We are not attacking Dinklage as a person, but pointing out his apparent ignorance of the what he is ranting about .
Someone who says Einsteins Theory of Relativity is bullshit because relations between relatives are so complicated can indeed be criticized for their ignorance.
wiki: Valid ad hominem arguments occur in informal logic, where the person making the argument relies on arguments from authority such as testimony, expertise, or on a selective presentation of information supporting the position they are advocating. In this case, counter-arguments may be made that the target is dishonest, lacks the claimed expertise, or has a conflict of interest.
Attacking someones argument as it is based upon ignorance is what we do.
I doubt that. I don’t think people conflate the two, and in any case the dwarves are good creatures, helpful, brave, hardworking. Does Queen EII think that the Evil Queen is demeaning to female royalty?
Who the FUCK takes Snow White seriously? It is a comedy fantasy musical.
Yes, they really, really do.
Do you really think that that is equivalent here? Really?
Once again, do you think that this analogy of yours is in the slightest related to what we are discussing here?
It’s not about the title, it’s not about some misinterpretation of the English language, it is about the way people with a disability are portrayed in the movie.
You are hanging on this “live in a cave” thing way too hard, especially when you yourself had a similar slip of the tongue when you falsely claimed that Dinklage said that they live in a mine.
It’s not where they lived that is at issue here, it is the way that they are portrayed, and nothing that you said in this post addresses that in the slightest.
Perhaps Peter Dinklage might be in a better position to opine on that.
Seriously?
This is almost the same line taken with Apu. And I, as a white male, was completely dismissive as well. “It’s obviously a joke, right? It’s just a cartoon! Nobody takes it seriously. Apu is hard-working and a good father. He’s basically the best person on the show morally!”.
Then my Indian-American wife and BiL both pointed out that they were constantly mocked with the “Apu Voice” and told “Thank You, Come Again”. It’s demeaning, annoying, and dehumanizing. So I was wrong. Completely and utterly wrong.
I can absolutely imagine that Dinklage (and others) has been called “Grumpy” or asked “Where’s Snow White?” or whatever so many times in their lives it’s no wonder he’s pissed about it.