Talk:Philosophers East vs West/@comment-75.23.233.119-20150704073143/@comment-26136579-20150704091314

Anti-Semitic: "That's one of the questions everybody asks me ... My answer to that is, not in the conventional sense that we think of someone as being an antisemite. But he got the reputation because, in the 1940s, he got himself allied with a group called the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, which was an anti-Communist and antisemitic organization. And though Walt himself, in my estimation, was not antisemitic, nevertheless, he willingly allied himself with people who were antisemitic, and that reputation stuck. He was never really able to expunge it throughout his life." Quote from a biographer that I found on Wikipedia.

Racist: Seems like he wasn't any more racist than the average person at the time. Seems like he wasn't much of a racist at all and only said some "racially insensitive" things that would have been more than normal for his time.

Sexist: He lived from 1901 - 1966, so he was at least extremely sexist.