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Disney Exec Blames Woes on Racist, Sexist Fans
Hollywood in Toto ^ | 19 Feb 2024 | Christian Toto

Posted on 02/22/2024 2:55:16 PM PST by Rummyfan

Newsletter reveals corporate arrogance behind Mouse House's fall

Few would deny Disney is in serious trouble.

Stock woes. Box office flops (“Wish,” “Haunted Mansion,” “The Marvels“). Theme park struggles. Beloved brands struggling for relevancy after years of culture dominance (Indiana Jones, Pixar, “Star Wars,” the MCU).

There’s a cottage industry of alternative media outlets documenting Disney’s decline.

- Nerdrotic
- The Critical Drinker
- The Quartering
- Film Threat

What went wrong?

The company’s hard-Left turn, for starters. Disney declared war on popular Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, pushed a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and embraced DEI principles behind closed doors.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodintoto.com ...


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Lousy products that push politics and wokeism above their core business - which is entertainment!

And taking political stands totally outside their business and alienating potential customers.

1 posted on 02/22/2024 2:55:17 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Evidently this guy spent too much time as a youth, in
Fantasy land.


2 posted on 02/22/2024 2:57:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Rummyfan

This is the gaslighting game. They provoke you then you are the guilty one according to them when you dont want to give them money to fund the next garbage reboot.


3 posted on 02/22/2024 2:58:12 PM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Rummyfan

These are the products of the seeds that 0bama planted so proudly..


4 posted on 02/22/2024 2:59:18 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: Rummyfan
You know, George Lucas could have easily started a Lucasfilm streaming channel and gotten way more money than selling it to Disney. One of the worst business decisions in history.

Also, he should have told Ford to take a hike and said there's going to be a new Indiana Jones actor. Now I read that because of Ford's petulant behavior, they're not going to make any more Jones movies.

Disney is just too big, they're the Ma Bell of the entertainment industry.

5 posted on 02/22/2024 3:00:32 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic's most controversial and outspoken FReeper)
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To: Rummyfan

Reap!


6 posted on 02/22/2024 3:01:14 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: All

It’s those darned Christian Nationalists fault. Not our crappy content.


7 posted on 02/22/2024 3:01:21 PM PST by BipolarBob (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Rummyfan

what a freaking moron.

Just make movies that are ENTERTAINING and STOP trying to push various liberal agendas on us!!!!

It is THAT simple!

If any liberals are watching this imagine if nearly every movie and show made had women pregnant and in the kitchen barefoot, every joke made fun of liberals, and then they remade shows like Shaft and always cast the main character as a white man and then remade the color purple with white ladies and thelma and lousie is now played by two men!

It is FREAKING annoying!


8 posted on 02/22/2024 3:02:14 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Rummyfan

Critical Drinker is my go-to now.
If he doesn’t like it, I don’t go.


9 posted on 02/22/2024 3:05:31 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Zathras

Same here!


10 posted on 02/22/2024 3:08:14 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan
Light feedback this holiday week, but I want to share a DM I got from a Disney executive in response to Thursday's column on whether the politicization of the Disney brand impacts box office..

"Everyone says 'It's the movies, stupid,' which is an easy thing for people to say. More appealing movies are a great way to jump the political issues. But more and more, our audience (or the segment of the audience that has been politicized) equate the perceived messaging in a film as a quality issue. They won't say they find female empowerment distasteful in The Marvels or Star Wars [the latest trilogy starring Daisy Ridley), but they will say they don't like those movies because they are 'bad.' So 'make better movies" becomes code for 'make movies that conform to regressive gender stereotypes or put men front and center in the narrative.' Which is what you're seeing now, and what Bob [Igerl's pivot is about right now." — A Disney executive

11 posted on 02/22/2024 3:08:14 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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It is not the sexist and racist fans who got Disney into trouble, the problem is Disney for wanting to impose a radical agenda that consumers do not accept, if they want to return to having the same million-dollar profits, they should not try to impose what the consumer don't want to or get out of the business
12 posted on 02/22/2024 3:08:38 PM PST by californian by choice
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To: Rummyfan
"If you want to send a message, call Western Union"

Samuel Goldwyn (I think)

13 posted on 02/22/2024 3:12:59 PM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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It's called hubris. Their foolish pride does not allow them to see the truth that is obvious to anyone else--almost no one wants to go to a movie or whatever that lectures them or promotes a Woke agenda. The only ones who approve of it are the ones who want other people to watch it so they can be subject to the propaganda.

I have stopped watching new movies and TV shows because everything about them is so bad--the stories, the acting, the constant in-your-face political correctness and "inclusiveness." I've taken to catching up on all the good TV series from the 1960's that I've never seen and revisiting a lot of old favorites (currently I'm going through "The Outer Limits." and "Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea"). I ran across an old and obscure TV Western series that I never heard of called "Outlaw" from about 1961 or so. Episode 1 had so many stars and future TV stars I lost count (William Shatner and Cloris Leachman, to name a couple) . It was a joy to watch.

14 posted on 02/22/2024 3:15:09 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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Ditsney is running scared. Snow woke and the seven ding a lings is supposed
to save their carcasses.......but its release will further underscore their DEI delusions.


15 posted on 02/22/2024 3:16:10 PM PST by Liz (Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
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To: Rummyfan

According to documents purporting to come from inside Disney, they have a regimented quota system for everything from producers to directors to writers to actors to film crews and even storylines. If that is true, they handcuffed themselves. There is nothing wrong with using “underrepresented” people per se, but when it becomes regimental and forced, they actually inhibit creativity in favor of appearance of “diversity”. People are not free to produce the best content or hire the best people for a specific project, they are forced to make compromises in various ways to fit the quota system. Meeting the quota becomes more important than the quality of the content, and knowing you have to meet the quotas you end up only being able to make content that meets the quotas; you end up creating content around the quotas because that’s the only way to get it made.

Complaining that the audiences are racist is a bit daft. The content quality obviously suffers, by design, because it is creatively inhibited and actually quite insincere, because it wasn’t developed from creative imagination but designed and created specifically to fit a quota, to check various boxes, instead of being created for maximum enjoyment by maximum numbers of people.


16 posted on 02/22/2024 3:17:08 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Rummyfan

Arrogant attitude from modern reprobates. Doing their part to ruin our world.


17 posted on 02/22/2024 3:17:29 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: californian by choice

I have no issue with them making movies with blacks or women or even gays.

But stop recasting roles for men as women, blacks for whites and including a perfect loving mentally normal gay guy in everything!

Want to make a movie about gays? fine, I had no problem with them making broke back mountain. They can make barbershop 15 with an all black cast and I could care less.


18 posted on 02/22/2024 3:17:44 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Rummyfan

I’m proud to say in the past year, I convinced two families to remove Disney from their list of potential vacation plans


19 posted on 02/22/2024 3:18:09 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Rummyfan

Attack your customers—brilliant plan.

Lol.

They hate us.

We hate them.

Game on.


20 posted on 02/22/2024 3:19:18 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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