https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8RlOaGoFeQ&t=4s
Walt Disney was a staunch anti-Communist:
He wanted Disney Land to inspire patriotism:
What Disney has become is the complete opposite of what he intended.
Update:
The House of Mouse is trying to lie their way out:
Iowahawk was right when he described the 3-step M.O. of the Left:
Target a respected institution,
Kill it and clean it, and
Wear it as a skinsuit while demanding respect.
“I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without my colleagues suspecting I got it because of my race.”
And
“I don’t like affirmative action because it creates a stigma on people.”
If you answered yes to EITHER of these questions -you have privilege.
There are malevolent people in America. They work in HR, in corporate communications, in school administration. They’re on faculties. They’re Democratic politicians. Then there are the clueless fools in the executive suite allowing the people under them to play these games with their work force.
Excellent article by Victor Hanson this morning in American Greatness:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/09/tuning-out-wokeism/
There’s been a meme for years now about how antisemitic Disney was. They don’t care any more about his wishes or legacy. He’s now just another nazi to be memory holed.
I keep having an urge to start playing this game…..
“I am able to publicly disclose my political views without fearing physical violence.”
“My religious teachings are not publicly targeted for removal.”
“I am not the target of public attention aimed at causing mental distress by my employer because of my race, sex and marriage status.”
Jews who worked for Disney have said what a canard this charge was. Disney ran afoul of Communists attempting to take over unions in the entertainment industry, sent them packing, and that is when the smearing of Disney began. You can always rely on Communists to resort to lies, since the truth is never their friend.
There’s been a meme for years now about how antisemitic Disney was.
A defender of Disney has offered the thesis that he hired his relatives like all the other studio moguls; Jews aspiring to studio jobs benefited from social-network recruitment at the other studios; they didn’t benefit from it in re Disney because Disney himself was not enmeshed in any Jewish social network. Don’t know if this explanation is true or not. Paramount, Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox, MGM, Columbia, and Universal were founded by Jews, and Jews retained a controlling interest and the chief executive positions for some time. (RKO was founded by a mixed set of investors. Disney and United Artists were founded by gentiles. The content and business model of Disney and United Artists was quite different from the other studios, btw).
I’ve heard that Disney supported eugenics. Is that a separate accusation from the anti-Semitism or part of the same smear?
I found this which I think does a good job disproving the lies.
https://www.jns.org/was-walt-disney-anti-semitic/
But try explaining to people nowadays the villain they thought wasn’t that bad a guy and see how far it goes. I do my best but it’s so very tiresome how much feelings are prioritized over the truth.
I have never seen the eugenics smear. The usual attack on Disney was that he was pro=Nazi. Anyone seeing Disney’s Education for Death knew that was a lie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XNLnbvqsxo
Good catch Nate:
I love this:
Gabler also revealed that Disney “frequently” made unpublicized donations to a variety of Jewish charities, including a Jewish orphanage, a Jewish old age home, Yeshiva College (precursor to Yeshiva University), and the American League for a Free Palestine. The League, better known as the Bergson Group, publicly supported the armed revolt against the British in Palestine by Menachem Begin’s Irgun Zvai Leumi. Disney was embracing not just Zionism, but its most militant wing.
I would love to have been a fly on the wall if a meeting had ever been held between Disney and Begin:
Both hard cases, both patriots and both geniuses, Begin in politics and Disney in building an entertainment empire out of nothing.
Some people make a big deal out of the fact the Big Bad Wolf in the Three Little Pigs cartoon was originally depicted as a Jewish peddler was proof that Disney was Anti-Semetic. Hogwash! It was a fact of life in rural America for many years that a lot of the peddlers were Jews. Disney, being raised on a farm, probably saw many of these fellows as a child. So it was natural for him to see the peddler as being Jewish. Why there was such an uproar about this, I don’t know. But at the other animation studios, which were mostly owned or controlled by Jews, Jewish stereotypes were used in their cartoons frequently, especially in the early 1930’s.
“What Disney has become is the complete opposite of what he intended.”
They are retro-fitting a false narrative about Walt Disney to write their own new one which appeases the vocal minority at the expense of our children. I’m sure Walt Disney would be equally appalled by the gay pride merchandise in link below, marketed to children. Also, the Disney-Pixar movie “OUT” is a short animation about a gay man coming out to his parents, and it’s streaming on Disney+ straight into the lounge rooms for children everywhere to watch.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/disney-unveils-lgbt-themed-rainbow-colored-toys-and-clothes.html
No fun to be had in this – such as, Mickey and Minnie or Donald and Daisy? Sharing comic books and hearing their voices in the movies was good and wholesome culture with common sense and understated morality woven throughout. Today’s children – deprived of innocence.
But at the other animation studios, which were mostly owned or controlled by Jews, Jewish stereotypes were used in their cartoons frequently, especially in the early 1930’s.
I think you mean the animation divisions of the other major studios, Warner Bros. especially. Unless I’m mistaken, Disney was the only major studio at the time specializing in animation.
Flannery O’Connor once remarked that fiction trades in the possible, not the probable. It’s always struck me as asinine to complain about the portrayal of a member of this or that segment unless it’s pervasive in a company’s oeuvre and suggests in sum a sociological reality that is not there. Michael Medved did make the case 20 years back that evangelicals are uniformly trashed in Hollywood products. It tells you something that you already knew that you can issue one film after another wherein the evangelical characters alternate between smarmy, vicious, and crazy but a Warner Bros cartoon which depicts Bugs Bunny getting the attention of a black man by taking a pair of dice out of his pocket is withdrawn from circulation.
I wonder how many woke white business executives are willing to quit their jobs and give them to a person of color as a show of solidarity and equity? Those who seek equity must do equity.
Art, in the early 30’s, all of the animation studios were independent contractors. By the mid 40’s most of them were owned and controlled by the major studios except for Disney and Walter Lantz Productions, which made the Woody Woodpecker cartoons.