is this meryl streep??? or a left winger who posts based on rhetoric rather than fact?
Walt Disney was nowhere near an anti-Semite- quite the opposite....one of his favorite employees from the 30’s happened to be a Jewish man Kay Kayman, his merchandiser....due a bit of serious research (may i suggest Neal Gabler’s biography on Disney) before spouting BS....http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2014/1/12/was-walt-disney-anti-semitic#.U9WAd2PG-So=
if Walt Disney was anything he was an original Tea Party member; someone who fought the unions bare knuckles outside his studio because he knew they had communist influences....someone who was a Barry Goldwater conservative, so much so that when he received the Medal of Freedom Award from LBJ, Disney wore a Barry Goldwater pin on his lapel...
but please- let me stop with facts and let you babble-on....
I was just re reading that the Jewish head of Disneys New York sales department said his office had “more Jews than the book of Leviticus”.
LOL
CC
I think his anti-Semitism was of a type that was totally normal for his time and people in his economic class. But it existed. He was an active member of a number of openly anti-Semitic organizations, he included broadly drawn Jewish caricatures in his early shorts and he apparently had a flirtation with the Bund movement in the 1930s. None of these were exceptional for the time period. But in the light of subsequent history, what else can we call such affiliations?
And no, “I had Jews working for me” is not a free pass, any more than “some of my best friends are”