They’ve got a huge LGBT+ following they’re fucking up if they ignore us.
LGBT+ is fucking up for following them regardless
It’s whatever performative trend raises share value with the wider political & cultural circumstances. Defying the 1st Trump administration & their anti-woke chaos was appealing to the public yearning for stability, & it was low-risk, because that administration didn’t sue & shakedown corporations for payouts. The trend aligned with the Biden administration’s ideology, which embraced such policies in the public sector, too.
The 2nd Trump administration poses a higher risk with its stronger, populist support, congressional backing, lawlessness, and willingness to sue for obscene settlements. Defying the administration’s ideology more credibly threatens share value, so the performative trend declines.
It was all just for show, they never cared about diversity to begin with.
Yes, probably, but you know what, even if the DEI was performative, it had a real positive impact for tens of thousands of employees and the culture set by the media empire they control, and now we don’t even have that.
Companies only care about what makes them more money. If they can pull more customers by saying they love diversity, they love diversity. If they think they will lose more customers, they don’t love diversity.
I always wonder why people have given them a pass. They’re a shitty company and always have been and it’s like just cos they have the IP for Star Wars then they seem to get a pass. How many more examples do people need to remember that Disney is shit
I’m a middle-aged dude with a wife and teen. Disney fucking sucks. Amazon fucking sucks. Spotify fucking sucks. Facebook fucking sucks. Instagram fucking sucks. Google fucking sucks. My local cable company fucking sucks.
Even if I wanted to live as a hermit, I have to either make compromises or make my family hate me. No TV, No music, no social media.
It’s unfortunate but true. It’s tough to be an absolutist if you don’t live in a vacuum.
I pirate and self host and it was surprisingly not all that complicated to get going. Any learning on the subject has been far less a hassle too versus the constant subscription juggling and then shows and movies going missing and then subscribing to something else and yadda yadda
Pretty sure it’s less that they have the IP for Star Wars and more that they have the IP for a bunch of extremely popular children’s movies and so on. Also stuff like Disneyland.
It’s not really a detail that makes a huge difference in the point I’m making
Think it does make a difference since the Lucasfilm acquisition was only like a decade ago, and frankly Disney’s handling of Star Wars has been controversial at best. It’s just a bad example.
It’s IMO pretty obvious why people give Disney a pass. They’ve spent a great amount of effort cultivating a certain image and basically feeding it to kids growing up through many different sources (movies, TV shows, theme parks, random shit like balloons in parades, etc.).
It’s a holdover from when the company was ground breaking and artistic.
The current era of dogshit remakes is new and horrible.
But yes, the company has also been shit to it’s employees and customers for decades. Don’t forget the Mickey Mouse Copyright act.
Both of them.
It’s a holdover from when the company was ground breaking and artistic.
The current era of dogshit remakes is new and horrible.
Thats a pretty typical for any innovative founder led company.
Once the founder dies or retires, and the people who learned directly from that founder are no longer in charge, the drive for max_profits becomes the only goal for the company.
Enshittification starts rapidly accelerating until the company finally craters, gets bought out by a private equity fund, and then gets hollowed out for the last squeeze of value until the empty corpse is left smoldering in a dumpster behind the bankruptcy court.
I never understood why anyone imagined the Disney execs were woke. So many showrunners had to work so hard and practically scheme against the execs in order to include some moticum of representation.
the speed and ease with which all execs have dropped dei initiatives should tell you something about their proclivities.
it’s performative. being woke was trendy, so they tried to seem woke.
now it’s not. so they don’t.
Anyone see the live action Lilo and stich where Leio is abandoned over to state custody and they give to separate shout outs the the US Marines?
Because if you haven’t, I recommend you don’t.
Reminder that Disney owns a metric ton of entertainment and media: https://www.titlemax.com/media/every-company-disney-owns-13_pageversion.jpg
What really gets me about this news is that the article lists initiatives they supported in previous years under DEI, and they’re the most reasonable good things for a company to do, for example:
- Executive incubator program and creative talent development program designed to engage the next generation of creative executives from underrepresented backgrounds
- Heroes Work Here, an initiative to hire, train and support U.S. military veterans
- Over 100 employee-led groups, which represent and support the diverse communities that make up our global workforce
- Innovative learning opportunities, which spark dialogue among employees, leaders, Disney talent and external experts
- The Disney Look appearance guidelines, which were updated to cultivate a more inclusive environment that encourages and celebrates authentic expressions of belonging among employees
- Established six pillars that serve as the foundation for our D&I commitments — transparency, accountability, representation, content, community, and culture
Unfortunately, it were all just a propaganda campaign to drive anger towards those ‘unfree’ orthodox non-western societies that US oligarchy are warring against. None of the leading dems (OR Reps!) have ever cared about ordinary people, and even less about people with ‘diverse’ living-styles, and they were the ones to start the so-called ‘woke’ campaign - knowing perfectly well it wouldn’t be permanent.
F’em ! …but that said, the campaign were planned and ran over a decade before it were really public, and it would have been executed no matter which party puppet that were put in charge of the US Oligarchy. And no, US have never been a ‘Democracy’, nor ‘Free’, or in any way cared about other people than their fellow oligarchs… It won’t change under a Capitalist regime - ever…
