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Yes, it's all about context and proximity to the event/period. The events of 9/11 are a big thing in the U.S., but to much of the rest of the world it's just another day in September.

According to Wikipedia, it was broacast on the Disney channel as recently as 2001, so the total banishment seems to be fairly recent. It was last released in theaters in 1986.

I didn't think they were trying to portray blacks or blackface in MP. They're chimney sweeps, who naturally get dirty and sooty doing their jobs. I've never seen anything racial about that scene. Just a dirty job done by people who naturally get dirty while doing it.

Yep, they get a couple letters about something, they can quickly take it down, make edits, and put the altered version up without having to worry about any pesky discs out amongst the hoi polloi that they cannot control.

Not sure what the legal issues would be, but apparently the film has fallen into the public domain in Japan under local law (according to Wikipedia). Perhaps Disney is afraid if they put out a restored version, it would be used to create pirate copies in that territory (and could spread...

Doubtful. Disney might still "get letters" which seems to be their greatest fear based on their comments quoted in the West Side Story thread.