Why Does Disney Hate So Many Of Its Customers?
Friend and reader just texted to say that he canceled Disney Plus. Said he couldn't stand the anti-white propaganda on "Proud Family," and the producer admitting that she queered the show. Queered the show? I had forgotten about this:
A Disney executive producer admitted she has been pushing a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” for children’s animation, even as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law this week.
During a Disney staff meeting about the law — which bars Florida teachers from discussing topics like sexual orientation or gender identity with students unless they’re in the fourth grade or higher — executive producer for Disney Television Animation Latoya Raveneau touted Disney’s efforts to feature LGBTQ storylines.
“In my little pocket of Proud Family Disney TVA, the showrunners were super welcoming . . . to my not-at-all-secret gay agenda,” Raveneau said in a leaked video obtained by journalist Christopher Rufo. “Maybe it was that way in the past, but I guess something must have happened . . . and then like all that momentum that I felt, that sense of ‘I don’t have to be afraid to have these two characters kiss in the background.’”
I cannot stand Disney, so I haven't been paying attention to its content. I see what they mean about the "Proud Family" anti-whiteness. Look:
And:
Turns out some white people don't like being told over and over and over again that they are the fu*king a*sholes of the world, and paying cable fees for it. This bothers Nicole Hannah-Jones, who says such wypipo are in denial about being RACIST:
Oh, please -- as if rejecting a particular take on the history of slavery is the same thing as not wanting to talk about slavery. NHJ wants the voices of radicals like her to be the only ones allowed to speak, or to hold an opinion at all. The "amazing clip" features black characters presenting a particularly sharp ideological view of history:
“We had Tubman, Turner, Frederick D. Then they say Lincoln freed the slaves, but slaves were men and women and only we can free ourselves. Emancipation is not freedom,” the characters sang. “Jim Crow, segregation, redlining, public schools feeding private prisons where we become slaves again.”
Yes, because the only reason any black person goes to prison in contemporary America is because white people want to enslave them. Lord. The characters in the clip chant over and over again, "Slaves built this country!" Well, yes, slaves built some of this country. But it's a big country. Most of it was not slave territory. White people from the North fought a war to free the slaves and preserve the Union. Nearly 600,000 white men from the North were killed, wounded, captured, or went missing in that epic fight. Their sacrifice, their memory, should not be erased.
The girls on the clip sing:
“We’ll take the 40 acres, keep the mule,” they sang. “We made your families rich — from the southern plantation heirs to the northern bankers to the New England ship owners, the founding fathers, former presidents, current senators…”
Yes, of course a lot of people got rich from slavery, and not just Southerners. But the purpose of this clip is not to enlarge and increase historical understanding. It's political agitprop designed to inflame and enrage, and to drive division, envy, and racial conflict.
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If that's what you want in children's entertainment, fine, Disney Plus has you covered. But if you don't want racialized spite as entertainment, you do what my friend did, and cancel Disney Plus. Disney Plus's attitude towards much of its audience reminds me of this old cartoon from SPY magazine. "Will you subscribe to our channel so we can keep producing quality animated entertainment?":
All this crap is about what those rats did, who are now beyond human justice. Why fight a proxy war against people who were never there and did nothing wrong?
I might as well as put in for full restoration of lands to my indigenous relatives, or nothing!
Stout fellow. The late Don Imus used to say that people who took their kids to Disney parks should have their kids taken away from them. Watch the closing sequence of "Fantasia" (the Pastoral) and tell me there wasn't something deeply wrong with the whole enterprise from the beginning. On the other hand some of the cartoons the studio put out in the '60s ("The Sword in the Stone", "Robin Hood") were quite charming.
You'll have to explain that. The closing sequence as I recall it was Night on Bald Mountain, which ends with church bells and Ave Maria driving the Devil and his host away as the sun begins to rise. Though I guess some Fundamentalists were perturbed by the earlier pieces using the evolution of life, and Greek mythology as backgrounds for the music.
On the other hand, I used to watch Dumbo and Bambi lot as a kid, and felt they were decent, shockingly sad at times.
LAWYER: Your honor, my client, Mickey Mouse, asks for this decree of divorce and I don't think this court will have much trouble granting it, on simple compassionate grounds. We intend to prove that Minnie Mouse is INSANE
CONSTERNATION
MICKEY [tugging at lawyer's suit coat]: I DIDN'T SAY THAT! I said she was effing Goofy.
Or the white progressives of the professional middle class, who sip their lattes while they rage about inequality on the internet, who talk about prejudice while they, a powerful caste that controls the commanding heights of modern Western society, mock the vices and struggles of poor working class whites, and feign love for nonwhites, while doing evidently less than nothing to actually help them, as that would require distributing capital - which they disproprotionately control - not just bread and circuses, towards them.
Do these people think that accentuating racial divides culturally while doing nothing material to bridge them is of benefit to the people they pretend to love? Or do they know, at some level, that it's merely a cynical power ploy in their drive to finish off white conservatives, and that their "black friends" are merely political cannon fodder, who once the time comes to share the spoils will be left with perhaps even less a share of national capital than they had during Jim Crow's day?
Upper middle class, the most progressive tilting class since the Trump era, is at the top of the inequality pyramid. Their attempts to discuss inequality, prejudice, and discrimination are laughable distractions that unfortunately serve to perpetuate their domination via distraction.
Eventually the hypocrisy will be too great. The attempt by propagandists like Raveneau to hold together upper middle class progressive interests with a pretense of care for working class black interests will eventually be eaten by its contradictions.