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      He explicitly tells the starving hyenas that they will be seizing all of the kingdom and distributing it amongst them, that they will never go hungry again. That the “natural order” with lions at the top will be upended permanently. He is coded as a leftwing revolutionary, as gay, as dark skinned and “other” and the marching in “Be Prepared” is based off red square parades

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        and the marching in “Be Prepared” is based off red square parades

        no it’s not it’s a shot for shot reference to triumph of the will. Even the lighting is an effect from nazi rallies

        watch it again Scar is clearly not concerned with the wellbeing of the hyenas nor does he value their inteligence or input. The hyenas are a pretty obvious analogy to the brownshirts or freikorps given the explicit fascist imagry of Scar’s song

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          Scar is clearly not concerned with the wellbeing of the hyenas nor does he value their inteligence or input

          Neither does Stalin in anti-communist propaganda care about the worker. Remember you seem to keep forgetting this is monarchist propaganda told from the perspective of a reactionary who believes all leftwing leaders are Machiavellian self-interested monsters. Scar is portrayed how the right sees communists. You keep using the text to try make a point while ignoring that the text has bias

          Monarchists/Liberals also love conflating fascism and communism as the same thing, so the mixing of fascist and communist themes is deliberate.

          You aren’t gonna make me think your Disney monarchist Hollywood propaganda is woke

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            I don’t think it’s woke to have nazis be the villains in the movie that was very standard behavior at the time. Indiana Jones is not woke

            Scar is not real the Scar of the text is the only Scar there is. And the Scar of the text is a royal dissatisfied with not being head of the monarchy who recruits disaffected hyenas (animal type is a big theme in lion king the hyenas are predators just like lions and that is relevant here) his offer to hyenas to eat all they want is analogous to offering to let his supporters kill and rob all they want. Again fitting the hyenas being a freikorp stand in. There are no communist themes scar offers nothing to the Hyenas that you couldn’t find promised on a nazi propaganda poster

            I have already pointed out how monarchist the film is but Scar is not supposed to be a communist.

            Frankly it makes more sense to say Long John Silver is meant to be a communist or even Scrooge in fact here we go “Scrooge’s ruthlessness and the way he forces people to live in draughty houses with no food is a clear reference to anti-communist tropes, Scrooge is meant to be stalin all the stuff about him being a capitalist is just the state capitalism allegation”.

            You can’t just take a villain in a tv show and say “they’re a communist all the explicit textual evidence portraying them as clearly not a communist is just propaganda”