Pocahontas and The Lion King were being developed concurrently by Disney studios, and at the time, Poca was considered to be the more serious, desirable effort to be involved in. How ironic that TLK turned out to be by far the more successful work of the two.
While I would never endorse the sort of historical liberties Disney took with Pocahontas, I wouldn't remotely put it on the same level as Holocaust revisionism. At least Disney admits they weren't trying that hard to be historically accurate and took some liberties in the belief that they were making what they considered a better story. Holocaust revisionists try to pass off their version of events as though that's how it really happened. (I read one essay which postulated that most Holocaust revisionists don't really believe the Holocaust didn't happen; they just say that because they find it entertaining to see what kind of reactions it gets out of people. A lot like the Internet trolls we see today.)
Pocahontas and The Lion King were being developed concurrently by Disney studios, and at the time, Poca was considered to be the more serious, desirable effort to be involved in. How ironic that TLK turned out to be by far the more successful work of the two.
While I would never endorse the sort of historical liberties Disney took with Pocahontas, I wouldn't remotely put it on the same level as Holocaust revisionism. At least Disney admits they weren't trying that hard to be historically accurate and took some liberties in the belief that they were making what they considered a better story. Holocaust revisionists try to pass off their version of events as though that's how it really happened. (I read one essay which postulated that most Holocaust revisionists don't really believe the Holocaust didn't happen; they just say that because they find it entertaining to see what kind of reactions it gets out of people. A lot like the Internet trolls we see today.)