- Disney shareholders rejected anti-DEI proposal on Thursday.
- A conservative think tank proposed that Disney stop participating in the Corporate Equality Index.
- Shareholders for Apple and Costco previously rejected similar proposals.
Maybe that’s because “DEI” has become code for “anything done by minorities” and “woke” now means “minorities.” With minorites here meaning “not white heterosexual men.” Also cis but these snowflakes can’t even accept that cisgender is a technical term.
Efficiency means monopoly
Nah, fuck disney. Won’t forget their “say no gay” policy. Also, a lot of their “woke” coded content is awful. It feels written by inexperienced writers. It’s not genuine and comes across as pandering.
Like damn bro. Timon and Pumba were gay, social outcasts and raised a child together. That shit felt real. Not the stereotype gay l, but just normal… well “normal” characters.
The new stuff doesn’t seem to have that. To the point that it feels as though they wanted their work to flop on it.
Kinda has that vibe Sandy from Spongebob had. At first, she was just a normal whacky character. Then Nickelodeon wanted more girl representation and Sandy became pretty much flawless. She wasn’t the butt of the joke anymore, while the other characters stayed that way. It made her seem less part of the gang. Unequal to the rest. She became unfun.
So many of the female characters seem flawless and yet unlikable. From star wars series, to the new disney movies. Where is our Katara from Avatar? Where is our Valerie from Danny Phantom? Where are the characters with character?
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They also slept together.
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No suprise there. A large portion of Disney’s viewers are girls and minorities. You know, those dreaded DEI folk.
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.
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.
Just 1% of shareholders voted to approve the proposal
1% of shareholders, or the holders of 1% of shares?
This is a great fuckin question and one that’s probably more important than we realize
And an easy question to answer - 1% of shares. All businesses weigh shareholder votes by number of shares held.
Not all companies do that. It is possible to make dual class voting, where some shareholders shares have more votes than others. For instance Google, Meta, Ford, Warren.
Yeah, but those systems still don’t count votes by “number of shareholders” as indicated above. They’re still weighted by number of shares, just some shares have more benefits than others
The class offered to the general public often has limited or no voting rights, while the class available to founders and executives has more voting power and often provides for majority control of the company.
Lots of media worried about upsetting the King of America with their reporting
“I guess you forgot whose really in charge,” said Mickey.
Disney is still a fraud and a fake. The Disney magic.
Probably because they realise that all the companies that ditched DEI have been doing significantly worse. Almost like it’s something people want.
Source/examples?
I haven’t verified but someone said Target above in the thread
I just compared Costco which didn’t roll back vs Target that did. In the last 3 months Costco is down 8% and Target is down 20%
I’ve been watching the stock market since the inauguration and companies like Target have been dropping significantly faster than companies like Costco that didn’t roll it back. It’s all going down, but the anti-dei ones are going faster.
Edit: just looked and Costco is down 8% in the last 3 months while Target is down 20%.
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?
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.
dint disney rollback some of DEI initiatives at least for a show, and introduced a “fully outed christian”
Yup, and removed a trans character.
Democrats and Republicans are aligned on trans erasure now.
Fucking idiot Dems think it’ll stop there I guess.
I don’t understand why Americans aren’t marching to war against this shit, it’s taking root.
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.
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
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.
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.
Especially Disney with their past…
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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I ain’t not gonna not believe that.
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Call of what if is and it becomes more clear.
DEI is diversity equity and inclusion. You know, inclusion of racial minorities, disabled people, and women in historically male dominated roles.
Disneys board rejected enacting a Trump inspired policy of racism, sexism, and general bigotry.
Shareholders in a company whose entire business is around being well liked globally thinks it would be a bad business move to cancel a program that is part of a good public image in favor of placating a relatively small chunk of Americans that would both be paying attention and against DEI.
They could still be pro-Trump, and not really caring about DEI, but they know the value of optics in the context of a company like Disney.
The most accurate takeaway is that the shareholders wish for Disney to continue participating in Diversity Equity and Inclusion measures.
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
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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
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I agree, but in the right circumstances. Posting it here in the comment section is one thing, we’re discussing their actions. But some people (not you, necessarily) will take it a step further and go bully a company when they take a good step because the step wasn’t big/good enough. We gotta positively reinforce good behavior
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It’s also about how much power Trump has though.
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My friend, have you not been paying attention? Trump doesn’t give a shit about any of that. He’s burning all the bridges to “eradicate woke”.
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Imagine if tomorrow they decided to stop DEI for good
I wonder if they could point towards their secession when handling that. Technically Disneyland and world aren’t part of America, but they’re not recognized as sovereign states by any country so they might have a hard time really putting that fight up
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Look into “Company towns” a bit. It could be done right, but putting that into the hands of the current oligarchs would be a spell for destruction
But I like your sentiment. I actually am planning to start a non-profit apartment complex and I’m trying to get my employer to be a primary investor. I plan on offering them a temporary exclusivity deal if they’ll let me build close enough to where we work but I’ll have to look into the laws about that. Exclusivity deals are a lil weird around housing, might not actually be able to offer that
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.
Oh how benevolent of them 🙄
They saw what happened to Target stocks after the boycott and said fuck that.
Boycotts do work, keep it up
