Posted on 05/31/2019 3:50:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Few companies appeal to more disparate corners of American society than the Walt Disney Co. , so count us among the bewildered to see Disney CEO Bob Iger march to the front lines of the culture wars.
Mr. Iger told Reuters this week that it would be “very difficult” for Disney to continue filming its movie and television content in Georgia if a new state abortion law takes effect. “I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard. Right now we are watching it very carefully,” Mr. Iger said.
Georgia recently passed a bill banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of gestation. Such heartbeat bills are moving through several states, though the federal courts are likely to rule that they violate the Supreme Court’s abortion precedents. Perhaps the High Court will hear an appeal, though this week the Justices declined to hear a lower-court decision overturning an Indiana law that barred abortion based on gender, race or disability.
Mr. Iger is probably trying to please the bulk of his employees and Hollywood who lean left. Disney’s competitors at Netflix have condemned the Georgia law. But for Mr. Iger this looks like a business and political mistake of the kind he rarely makes. Disney of all companies should not want to be seen as an engine of the left’s cultural imperialism. The company’s new streaming service is pitched as “family friendly,” which presumably means customers in Macon as well as Manhattan.
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And yet there they are, raking in billions of dollars.
Wait... hold up. I know about Disney World doing NAMBLA Day (or as they call it, Gay Days), and that whole thing really needs to go away fast. But I don’t recall Ariel being outed as either transgendered or a lesbian, let alone both.
Well, if he wants to bankrupt Disney and have it be put out of business, go right on ahead and protest the Abortion Bill. Otherwise, he just shot himself in the foot regarding customers, his target demographic being Children, which unborn babies become.
Honestly, this decision will bite him in the butt, in the afterlife, heck, even in this life, since I doubt the Board of Directors and Shareholders are going to be very happy with Iger for blowing away a lot of money with his actions right now. Even they ought to know the bottom line and that Iger’s actions are harming that bottom line.
Here’s one thing I don’t get... Iger’s supposed to be a Religious Jew based on the site JesusIsSavior, so why on earth is he backing what is essentially the same thing the Nazis forced Jews and other undesirables to undergo in the camps?
Forget Walt Disney, his own FATHER would be ashamed of him, especially when based on this, he FOUGHT the Nazis, and his son is embracing the same tactics as them.
Yeah, no kidding. His actions are just contemptible. You’d think a guy whose own father had to fight the Nazis in World War II and most likely told him what the Nazis did in Concentration Camps would know better than to sponsor abortion or promote it to the detriment of the company he is currently running. Then again, a holocaust survivor was instrumental in passing France’s equivalent of Roe v. Wade and cynically used her status as such to push for its legalization.
BOYCOTT DISNEY!
DISNEY IS PART OF THE KULTURSMOG!
DISNEY IS DEFINING AMERICA DOWN!
You really think boycotting Disney’s going to work? I’ve been boycotting Disney since they had LeFou turned gay in the 2017 remake for Beauty and the Beast, and they STILL haven’t changed course under Iger. Heck, the fact that Disney hasn’t changed course despite the utter failure that was Gay Days, or Star Wars bombing at the box office, or any of that, should be an indication that boycotts simply aren’t going to be effective. If they were, they would have changed course by now, since it’s hitting them right where their money is.
Not to mention, I boycotted Pokémon for nearly a decade, and it was only now that the reason I boycotted them showed any fruit with them bringing Misty back and at the very least showing she’s not a pushover as a Gym Leader after how they turned that profession into a complete joke in AG, BW, and to a lesser extent DP, maybe even eventually letting her resume her goal of Water Pokémon Master. Which is 10 years too long.
Don’t get me wrong, I also think Disney backing abortion openly right now is contemptible, or at least, Iger doing that in Disney’s name is that. And I also think Disney REALLY needs a good cleaning house. Heck, I’m even willing to back a boycott if it’s a guarantee that they’ll back off and renounce their earlier policy. But we need to be a lot more effective in trying to get them to stop doing those harmful promotions and get them back to its roots. We could try petitioning (it was through petitions that people convinced Disney to change its mind about shutting down Disney Screencaps for copyright infringement, after all).
No, I don’t think that boycotting Disney will work. There are probably millions of Americans who are boycotting Disney, and, as you point out, Disney does what Disney does.
OTOH, there are 330 million Americans, and if we are divided 40 - 40 LIEberal - Conservative (20% indifferent?), the 40% LIEberal crowd is a HUGE audience for Disney and the other KultureSmog proponents.
To change the culture, we have to keep doing what we are doing. And convince the other side that we are right and they are wrong. And convince them that they need to be with us!
PERSIST! PERSIST! PERSIST!
It will not be easy, but I see us gaining ground - this “impeachment” debacle will work in our favor, and when DJT is re-elected, we can really roll up our sleeves and get to work!
Let’s hope so. And quite frankly, we’d do a lot better if we just removed Iger and replaced him with someone who is a LOT closer to Walt Disney’s view on things than him. As it is, Iger’s even more divorced from Disney than Eisner was, and I’d even go as far as to state that of the successors to Disney barring maybe Diane’s husband and Roy Disney, Eisner was the one who came the closest to outright respecting Disney’s view on things. At least Eisner kept Wonderful World of Disney and kept his mouth shut on the abortion debate.
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