Teed, you seem to be missing something. If Disney was, as you said, just echoing the ideas that were common in his time, then why does he deserve to be idolized? Someone who just regurgitates what is taught to them is ordinary, not a hero. I don't think it's healthy for us to blindly worship "heroes" in the first place, but if people insist that we must have heroes that we collectively admire, then we should pick people who were ahead of their time rather than the people who reinforced the moral errors of the time.

And by the way, it's fallacious and presumptuous to claim without providing any evidence that literally EVERYONE living in the 1800s, or any period, was racist. How about Frederick Douglass? Or, more recently, Angela Davis?? Angela Davis was a homophobic racist too? She was active at the time of Reagan's presidency, yet she was able to rise above the prejudices he internalized.