Pleeeease don't have the only Black actor in Aladdin play a magical being whose arc revolves around enslavement http://deadline.com/2017/04/will-smith-genie-role-aladdin-disney-1202072355/ …
I'd settle for nominally good guys like Razoul and the palace guards not being Scary Brown Man stereotypes
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There's thoughts to be had on how Aladdin's class warfare tropes strengthened the story but were always thru an orientalist lens
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No one would've thought to portray poverty in Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast as being as crushing and desperate as in Aladdin
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