Better headline, "Disney toes the line for Nazi scum, and Walt himself was a Nazi sympathiser even after Kristallnacht. EPCOT was his fascistic wet dream. Fuck Disney throughout time."
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And that’s basically it!
Never heard of EPCOT before, quickly scanned over the Wikipedia article:
what's the problem of that theme park?
Before he died, the idea of EPCOT was to create his vision of an actual city, not just a park attraction. I read a quote from him about it that seems very much in the vein of Mussolini's idea of fascism as the fusion of corporate and state power,
“There will be no landowners and therefore no voting control. People will rent houses instead of buying them, and at modest rentals. There will be no retirees; everyone must be employed.”
Aahh, see? Now that is more problematic than the article about a folkloric world theme park I read.
But it's also not exactly new, company towns were already a sad part of our reality. Luckily we got over it, but rich people of course always want to get back to it.
We never got over it, they just use 401ks to control our futures now, and corporate owned housing is why rents are too high for us to do anything but work, eat, scroll, and sleep. If we stop to protest we’re in danger of homelessness.
“Openly” as if Christians aren’t the dominant cultural and political group in the USA
Yeah, "demonstrably" or "obnoxiously" would probably be much more accurate..
It'll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like
- Luke 16:13 "You cannot serve both God and money."
- Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor"
- Matthew 5:39 "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
- Matthew 5:44 "love your enemies"
So there's no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?
Religion or LGBT is a false dichotomy and shit like this just fuels division.
Fuck you Disney
Really hope Jesus makes his comeback via an appearance on RuPaul. The bible does say it will be unexpected.
Yup. Disney doesn't stand for anything. They just pander to wherever they think the money is.
I feel like these corps did a calculation and figured out everyone has an excuse to not boycott companies like Disney except right wingers who have become exceptionally good at the boycott.
In my experience those people will typically boycott brands as a group meanwhile my friends find every excuse in the book to support the major corps hurting them. Even aoc went to Florida during covid. And people wonder why they win.
Yup. Leftists Don't have that insane person conviction. Dip shits need to learn to boycott
This leftist has boycotted everything Sony since they bricked my PC with their rootkit in the early 2000s (and I really go out of my way to make sure nothing Sony related comes in my house, not their music, movies, games, electronics, nor their camera lenses) I only slipped up once in the past 20 or so years, when I purchased a second hand Sony Walkman mp3 player. Thing broke within 3 months of use, it's now a constant reminder that I really need to keep boycotting Sony.
I've started boycotting Amazon (including but not limited to Kindle, Audible, Prime and Twitch) and Disney since this year.
But I'm only one person.
I have shown myself to be capable of long term boycotts and I don't intend to let up. I've added Amazon's websites to my Pihole's blacklist.
But I also don't pirate their stuff. As far as I'm concerned their TV shows and movies and such don't exist on this planet.
a shift in conservative culture
independent poll that shows 34% being against a trans character
conservative terrorists are the greatest threat domestically
I guess Nazis saying "I'll fucking kill you and your kids you woke traitor" and then Americans being afraid to participate in democracy does qualify as a shift towards conservativism.
What if I am offended by Christian characters, something wildly inappropriate for young impressionable minds?
Well I did feel bad about pirating Agatha All Along but not anymore.
Disney be like: "Friendship ended with rainbow capitalism, now christian capitalism is my best friend."
Is being inclusive of people with cognitive reasoning disabilities a bad thing?
I wonder how China will react. Plus for them: no trans character. Minus for them: replaced with Christian insurgent.
Shit, I hadn't even considered that US/Russia/China censorship goals align so well.
Given the nature of the show, and the fact it is set in modern day America, it would be stranger if it didn't have a Christian kid in it.
Removing any references to being transgender is pretty shitty though.
Depends where in American, where I'm at it's more unusual to be publicly Christian than publicly non-religious
I don't trust any business that advertises itself as run by Christians.
Jesus had a big rant about hypocrites making a public show of their religion, and told them to go pray in their closets instead.
I am curious as to which flavor of Christianity they are portraying 🤔
Supply side Jesus, presumably.
Well now I can say Disney is woke. They woke up to kiss the ring and bow down to a fucking shit lip.
This is the first openly Christian character to feature in a Disney film since 2007's Bridge to Terabithia.
So it's not really the first then, is it?
An exclusive poll for Newsweek conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies in July found that 34 percent of viewers disapproved of Disney's attempt to add more LGBTQ+ topics to its content.
This I never understand. If Disney is a for profit company, why would they not listen to their majority? Aren't they leaving money on the table like this? "Well, because of Trump." Yeah but how does that matter, specifically? (The article does not go in to detail about that) Is Trump going to compensate them for it??
This article isn't very well written. Many such cases, sadly.
The State Religion, I guess.
boo Disney. Spineless.
Spineless? They're rainbow capitalists through and through. Fuck them.
it was only a matter of time. Ms Marvel had openly Muslim characters and Turning Red had Buddhists.
Any word on whether they're going to start telling good stories?
The Trump administration probably threatened to break up Disney.
Let’s hope so, it’d be a shame if they did this on their own initiative.