They saw what happened to Target stocks after the boycott and said fuck that.
Boycotts do work, keep it up
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Just 1% of shareholders voted to approve the proposal
1% of shareholders, or the holders of 1% of shares?
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Disney is still a fraud and a fake. The Disney magic.
Disney wants as many customers as possible and doesn’t care about temporary optics based on hard right politics. Don’t mistake them for the good guys. Megacorps that buy up everything in sight and use their ridiculous piles of money to exert influence over politics are the core of the problem.
Guess why copyright laws in the US kept adding decades and decades to copyright protection from the death of the creator. HINT: Megacorp money controlling laws may have been involved.
While most of that is true, they actually did let the Mickey Mouse copyright expire, and Mickey as portrayed in Steamboat Willie is now public domain.
But instead they're using trademark. There's a reason they've started using Steamboat Willie in an animated logo.
I've got a love/hate thing with Disney. Like...enemy-of-my-enemy-enemy kind of thing.
I do love when they stick it to DeSantis.
But I still ain't going to FL anytime soon. We did Disney in 2022 and I think that's probably near the end of when FL was tolerable (in small doses) for sane people.
DISNEY resumed thier donations to florida after the desantis/florida spat.
Like all corporations, Disney is a mercenary. Their allegiance lies with whoever puts the bigger number on their cheque.
If MAGA is going to get in the way of Disney trying to make money, I'm more than happy to let Disney fight that battle and waste some cycles
Especially Disney with their past...
This is not about "DEI" it’s about marketing and demographic, in short economic interest, personally i wouldn’t throw them flowers.
It's also about how much power Trump has though.
I mean they do lobby for republican lawmakers and recently donated more than $80k worth to individuals who actively supported the "Don't Say Gay" bill…
They made a deal with DeSantis, meaning this move would not happen without consulting him first. From my understanding, due to the backlash against American companies, especially Tesla, Disney can get in hot water financially. They export American soft power all over the world, so it is important not to tarnish their appearance especially in a context where there is trump in power, imagine if tomorrow they decided to stop DEI for good; the Disney Parks around the world and Disney World would get hit financially as well as their movie industry, thus also hitting Florida's economy centered around fun parks and tourism. It’s some kind of abusive co-dependency.
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You are right, but also, I think it’s okay to take the small victories where they are. They shouldn’t have to be applauded for doing the bare minimum, but when this bare minimum is a big middle finger to the administration I’ll look the other way
I am SO confused.
Lots of media worried about upsetting the King of America with their reporting
As someone who actually works on real stuff, it's insane to me that for some people, they go to work and have high-level conversations revolving around things such as this.
No suprise there. A large portion of Disney's viewers are girls and minorities. You know, those dreaded DEI folk.
and disney also have "virtue signalling" for LGBTQ+ for a couple decades already. harder to divorce from that. ALso children is thier money maker too.
Well yeah they learned that more than just little white girls like their movies. Look at the animated Disney/Pixar feature films, so much more than it was in the pre- renaissance era.
Even during the Renaissance ...we had Pocahontas and Mulan and Jasmine...but these people were more like phoned-in representatives of their cultures compared to now.
Look at Encanto, or Moana/Viana. Or Coco. Or even Soul.
Hell, Strange World features a mixed race family with a queer son and a three-legged dog.
And the movies are better for it. They are more relatable because they aren't all some xeroxed copy of the same plain princess with a slightly different tint. And more importantly, they are showing their young and impressionable viewers a cast that reflects reality. That not every family is a carbon-copy "traditional" family. That different cultures exist and yeah, live a bit differently than suburban white folk (who live a shockingly similar life to the Sultan of Agrabah).
youtube videos of disney cinema is infested with these "anti-woke comments" its really not for conservatives anyways. like how the recent snow white movie is being spammed all over youtube with anti-woke twist. they trying very hard to get people to hate disney and using the actor as thier anchor.
Probably because they realise that all the companies that ditched DEI have been doing significantly worse. Almost like it's something people want.
"I guess you forgot whose really in charge," said Mickey.
They ... rejected ... anti-DEI ... making them ... pro-DEI ... and anti-Trump? Am I getting that right? Sorry, there are just getting to be a lot of double-negatives these days it's hard to keep track.
you're not wrong
Nah, keep with the times!
He isn't not right!
I think you meant to say he isn't not unwrong
Neither of you are incorrect.
I don't disagree
This thread hurts my brain.
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Conservatives have been worshipping on the altar of Shareholder Value since the 80's.
Guess what? These shareholders just told us all what they value. Think Conservatives will accept it?
dint disney rollback some of DEI initiatives at least for a show, and introduced a "fully outed christian"
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I mean they value money...
and apparently they are smart enough to realize that Diversity helps with money, Which makes sense... they are a machine designed to extract money from people...
rich white billionares do not fill up theatres or make a substantial percentage of disney+ and Hulu subscriptions... a group of people that know how to target different demographics will obviously outperform one that targets the hell out of maga fans but doesn't know how to talk to the other 70% of the country.
remember the actors that went all anti-lgbtq+ tried to make thier "anti-woke circle jerking movies" like gina carano,and some others.
worshipping on the altar of Shareholder Value since the 80’s.
Thanks, Milton Friedman...
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Conservative "values" are just cover stories for greed, selfishness and prejudice. They grew up with a set of prejudices and they refuse ever to reexamine them. So they adjust the "values" to suit. Conservatives are incurious, stubborn people who refuse to grow.