Disney shareholders reject anti-DEI proposal
Disney shareholders reject anti-DEI proposal
Fuck this shit, now I gotta be pro Disney too? I'd gotten so used to hating them. They grew on me a little back when they stood up against DeSantis in Florida too.
I miss the days when we could just love/hate corporations based on their business practices instead of culture war bullshit.
It's almost like there were nuances to almost everything instead of the world being neatly divisible into good and bad.
Oh, you get out of here! this is not how the internet works!
It's always more complicated than the binary. Disney might be getting DEI but still forces creators to censor out any LGBT references in their shows, or cancel them if they do them anyway. They still are anti union and work people to the bone.
If you want it simple, no corporation is your friend, ever. They are there simply to take your money, without regard for scruples, and any form of morality they seem to be acting on is either because it will make them more money or it is illegal and not cost effective to break the law.
It's still a good sign the shareholders have some sense in this specific case, but make no mistake, Disney doesn't care about anything other than money.
i heard they were trying to promote christian inclusivity, by adding one of them in the shows. we know what happens when a show just caters to christians, it ruins the show.
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I mean, Disney is still evil. They probably saw how much Target fucked up and don’t want to make the same mistake.
There’s more money in appealing to everyone instead of just white evangelicals Americans.
Their brand of diversity is some bs anyways so you don't have to be pro Disney.
Remember, they gladly took help from a Chinese concentration camp to make their girl boss Mulan remake.
They also fired all their park workers during covid and gave themselves 10 million bonuses while their workers were surviving on food stamps. Some workers had even signed non compete clauses so they literally could not use their talents elsewhere to feed themselves.
Further more, Disneys current version of DEI is divisive, soulless and insincere.
It isn't a black or white situation. You can hate Disney AND MAGA. To me, they are all two sides of the same rotten coin. Ruthless, selfish and greedy people who use others to get ahead and pull the ladder up after themselves.
they also began to renege on thier "Dei" i think for a show they removed the lgbtq+ person and including a " persecuted christian in the mix". additionally they started public resumed donation to desantis and GOP in florida when all the news blew over.
Oh, they have done shit like that for years. Removing black actors from their movie posters when sending their films to places like China, removing all LGBT stuff from their oh so diverse remakes when sending them to countries that dislike gay stuff.
They are so fake.
one thing i do notice they never touch christians though, most people watching disneys arent christians, its just to get them from not complaining about Disney. SPN was one show that have to astroturf with christianty is the one true religion" and disrepecting other dieties/mythology.
They also fired all their park workers during covid and gave themselves 10 million bonuses while their workers were surviving on food stamps. Some workers had even signed non compete clauses so they literally could not use their talents elsewhere to feed themselves.
There are plenty of things to hate Disney for, especially as they approach super-monopoly status, ruin nearly every franchise they touch, and have trouble telling what's good or not. As a company, Disney's morals and decisions grow more concerning every month. Disney is basically a disaster in progress.
However, this specific complaint seems bad: it's the wrong scale. Many companies were in the wrong during COVID, but it's hard to look at these numbers and say the layoffs here were bad decisions based on $10M in bonuses. The scales are just too different.
Disney laid off 32,000 park workers At a measly 40 hours per week at their "minimum wage" (formerly $15/hr, now $24/hr): that's $83.2 million PER MONTH: $998M a year. A $10M "bonus" is 1% of that, and even smaller compared to the $6.4B of park revenue they had loss.
The former CEO "gave up" their salary ($3M) and "bonus" ($45M in 2019), had 20-30% pay cuts to the executive staff, and a few other items. The CEO did get "$10M" in stock awards, but stock awards don't get you off food stamps. Those stocks become nothing if the company posts bad financials, which would hurt more than just the execs.
The $1.5B dividend payout in April 2020 looks much worse. Abigail Disney ranted about it on Twitter (now X). His rant is at the appropriate scale: Disney paid out billions before they chose to save millions. The execs got quite a bit of that dividend payout. That's the greed.
god, remeber when america could run its own concentration camps, instead of just subcontracting everything out? and the chinese ones are nicer than ours ever were. didn't america used to be, like... something?
Saying that current day Chinese concentration camps are nicer than some concentration camps America had in the past is very tone deaf.
Besides, I hear your president is talking about sending immigrants to guantanamo so maybe you guys get to compete with the Chinese on who has the nicest concentration camps in this say and age soon enough.
no, no, they're all getting sent to cheap megaprisons in venezuela. the americans can't even run their own foreign-torture-pits anymore. I bet everything in venezuela is going to be industrialized and use prison labor, fucking death of the artisan; i guess ALL labor needs to be de-skilled and fungible now. remember when torturers were SOMEONE in society? like, fuck, remember the first couple pages of 'discipline and punish'? an entire craft, just dead.
They have met their fundamental duty as an organization led by human beings who can and should be held to moral standards.
I despise their behavior with copyright but here they've earned the right to not get the "caved to fascists" boycott
Is it a boycott if you just refuse to buy from a company because all of their products are shit?
you don't have to love them, you just maybe shouldn't put them at the top of your "FUCK YOU" list. one could argue that their treatment of copyright is a part of what got us here.
Nah, its just more proof that this think tank is shit at making money. Disney doesn't have morals, but it does have a very profitable "princess" marketing strategy. This think tank didn't really read the room very well.
Conservative think tanks don't exist to make money or spread prosperity, they exist to find justifications to enact conservative policies
Well, now I wonder what benefits they could offer a for profit company. Why would anyone even meet with them?
This is like rooting for the villain. Ok, whatever ... Disney is cool again.
I miss boycotting Disney because some prude thought she saw sex hidden in dust in the Lion King.
The kooky, fun kind of crazy we can all share a laugh at
While the Rescuers 2 had an actual naked woman in it.
They're still a massive company that's way bigger than it should be and could be considered a monopoly.
None of these companies actually care. They will go woke until it sends them broke.
Tesla is woke?
Who said anything about Tesla?
Tesla is going broke, so, according to you, Tesla became woke, right?
How the hell did you draw that kind of logic, are you ok dude? 😂
It's a shame that it's only the companies with more money than God that feel comfortable standing up for their values. The Felon will attack anyone who disagrees with them, and while everyone gets mad about nobody standing up to him - that's not exactly a zero risk scenario for most. But for these hundred billion and trillion dollar companies, they know they can defend themselves just fine.
Any decent company should be pro-DEI. Bare minimum if you ask me.
They will role ever sooner or later. Fuck them, never stop hating.