Americans turn back on Disney after LGBTQ embrace: Nearly 7 in 10 Americans no longer want to do “business” with Mickey Mouse and instead will seek out “family-friendly alternatives”

Washington Examiner ^ | 04/12/2022 | Paul Bedard

[Allegra]

A pansexual child. A child who will *** anything that moves? And how does this demon CEO know this about her child?

And she brags about it. Brags about destroying her children.

[alexander_busek]

I have a serious question to any FReepers who might care to weigh in on the matter:

American society has become increasingly polarized in recent years. But now, millions of conservatives in this country are seriously considering compiling lists of major companies (promoting "woke" politics) to boycott.

If they were to actually boycott those companies with any degree of consistency - what would that do to the American economy, and consequently, to American society? Could this be viewed as some sort of "cold" Civil War?

Regards,

[P-Marlowe]

Cedar Fair

Stock symbol: FUN.

Up 3 1/2% this week.

[minnesota_bound]

I just do not understand why the ceo is doing this at Disney. He should fire all of the gays.
What are they going to do about it? Another protest then what? Nothing, Disney continues on.

[Republican Wildcat]

I don’t believe this many people even know about this having occurred. Virtually no one, even now, other than news junkies knows about Cuties and Netflix, for example.

When Disney Plus has lost 70% of its customers I will believe this. Otherwise, this is unfortunately just wishful thinking.

[sit-rep]

I have my doubts, but man would it truly be a sight to behold seeing Disney go down for all this crap... (...fingers crossed...)

[glimmerman70]

It wasn’t that great anyways. The other places are better. Bush gardens and other places. If you have kids I heard Lego land is fun for them. I work right down the street , the place stays busy.

[1ScrappyArmyMom]

I’ve been spreading the news to all my friends and family.
People are more aware than you think.
Before I cut off all Disney promotions, the Disney online store was offering freebies. Never remember them giving away anything.

[nathanbedford]

My guess is that any boycott successful enough to threaten the American economy would long before be successful enough to generate backlash from stockholders that might force the woke corporations to mend their ways.

My feeling is that the immediate threat is from our institutions, especially including our large corporations, that are co-opted by the Chinese rendering our body politic and our culture incapable of resisting Chinese influence until it is too late. In this context the woke virus, while itself pernicious, could be seen as one more factor that renders us impotent against the Chinese threat.

[alexander_busek]

My guess is that any boycott successful enough to threaten the American economy would long before be successful enough to generate backlash from stockholders that might force the woke corporations to mend their ways.

To quote the character played by Jim Carrey in the movie Dumb and Dumber (upon being told by the sexy girl to whom he has just proclaimed his undying love, "The odds are a million to one that I could fall in love with you!"): "So you're saying there's a chance!"

Now all we have to do is determine whether such a massive boycott - or series of individual boycotts - will be a) self-organizing, or b) needs to be coordinated and advertised in order to gain sufficient momentum!

My feeling is that the immediate threat is from our institutions, especially including our large corporations, that are co-opted by the Chinese rendering our body politic and our culture incapable of resisting Chinese influence until it is too late. In this context the woke virus, while itself pernicious, could be seen as one more factor that renders us impotent against the Chinese threat.

Are you back-pedalling here?! Or just unnecessarily spreading defeatism?! Your remarks in the second paragraph seem just... unnecessary.

When I posed my question, I was in fact thinking chiefly of mega-corporations (often under Chinese control); I wasn't talking about "going after" Ma & Pa stores.

We must, of course, remain realistic. But, in my view, it would be quite realistic for conservatives to band together amongst themselves, share lists, institute boycotts, and then also amplify the effect by "going public" and/or advertising what we are doing.

I think that we are already at the point where such a strategy would be feasible. (I was already so decoupled from society at large that my boycotting select corporations is hardly painful to me.) But if we (ten million strong) were to make it known to the general public?

In fact, in announcing that, e.g., Disney wants to be "more inclusive" (i.e., wants to push the LGBQT+ narrative down our children's throats), must we assume that the Board of Directors DIDN'T consider the backlash that would ensure? How could they NOT have?

Regards,

[Zathras]

The Bush Rule: “Pissing off your Base is not a winning strategy”

[Republican Wildcat]

Please continue to fight the good fight and help spread the word.

But forgive me for not being optimistic since Netflix barely took a dent from the Cuties fiasco simply because people were not and are not aware.

There’s a lot of good Disney stuff out there from the past - if you don’t own it, buy it used at flea markets / Ebay, etc. Don’t buy new.

[nathanbedford]

I think we are in complete agreement now that I accurately understand your inquiry. My reply was to attempt to literally answer your "serious question" in which you ask, "If they were to actually boycott those companies with any degree of consistency - what would that do to the American economy, and consequently, to American society? Could this be viewed as some sort of "cold" Civil War?"

My reply was in no sense defeatist rather it was to say that there is no reasonable impediment to such boycotts out of fear of hurting the economy. To the contrary I fully support such boycotts.

My reference to Chinese influence is, I think, demonstrated in the mindset of the Disney Corp. to which you allude. First, Disney lives in its own bubble and it is growing increasingly isolated from its middle-class customer base and more attached to the culture of Hollywood.

Even worse, when Disney/Hollywood looks at the danger from a backlash from its middle-class customers, if it sees that danger at all, it would no doubt minimize its impact on the bottom line because Disney is increasingly looking to China for the bulk of its profits.

When I was in the equivalent of middle school in the 1950s, we got home after school to turn on the Disney afternoon show to be treated to an infomercial for the original Disney World in California. As kids we did not understand how we were being manipulated. Disney's management regards the public as something easily and effectively managed and funneled into its attractions, cruises etc. One Disney enterprise carefully flacks for another and this surely must affect management's deliberations made inside their bubble. Disney China is in a different world from Disney World Florida.

I do not object to boycotts, in fact I believe we need to replicate on a national scale the original Boston tea party uprising.

Best.

[alexander_busek]

Even worse, when Disney/Hollywood looks at the danger from a backlash from its middle-class customers, if it sees that danger at all, it would no doubt minimize its impact on the bottom line because Disney is increasingly looking to China for the bulk of its profits.

...and the Chinese just love their non-binary, "wokified" cartoon characters, right?

...and the majority of DisneyLand and DisneyWorld attendees are Chinese, right?

Sorry for the snark, but I still don't believe that any even only junior executive at Disney could possibly believe that it is in their best interests to "go Woke."

The only possible explanation I see - and you do directly refer to "isolation" and "bubble" - is that Disney is truly caught in some weird solipsism.

Regards,

[nathanbedford]

If the critical theory that is the spawn of The Frankfurt School can make one believe that 2+2 is not 4 but 5 or anything one wants to believe, it can make one believe virtually anything. If one is a devout student of the critical theory, if one swims in the woke culture, one sees the world through the translucent membrane of one's bubble.

For the denizens of Disney's woke culture who can affect our culture, it is easy to believe that there would be little blacklash from parents whom they have manipulated for generations, easy to believe that China will be indifferent to Disney's transgender adventures, easy to believe that Disney will simply continue to furnish one set of fantasies to China and another to Western consumers, and easy to believe that the people they value, the elites who control the media, social media and the news, will enthusiastically toast them for their progressivism.

Finally, it will be easy for them to believe that the elites who control Disney, like elites who are managing so much of our world, will not themselves suffer from their own actions, that is, their children will survive blissfully unaffected by Disney's perversions.

For these people, a green eye shade application of best business school principles is unlikely to control.

[FrdmLvr]

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