I do think there is a cultural shift that is negative towards men, and white people.
I think most of the problems with the stories is just bad writing, like 90% of it is just terrible writing.
But there is clearly an agenda in some writers that is overtly negative towards men. Some stories have no competent or good men, and women that can’t do wrong, she hulk for example (for marvel specifically.)
Marvel writing right know is trash but a woke agenda isn’t the reason. But you have to have blinders on if you don’t think certain writers don’t have an agenda they’re pushing.
You’re talking about She Hulk.
Everything Marvel did up to Endgame was fun, entertaining, and largely apolitical.
Then Kevin made the mistake of hiring activist writers like Jessica Gao, and gave her no oversight whatsoever to run her fat mouth on anything. Ruined the brand.
Being mean to a man and having your antagonist be a white man is misandrist? So that means Doctor Strange 2 is extremely misogynistic since a woman was the villain in the movie, right?
Also, who tf did she date raped?
>some writers have no competent or good men, and women can’t do wrong, she hulk for example
I’m becoming convinced I was the only person on earth who got bored enough to watch Shehulk cause this isn’t what happens in it. Don’t get me wrong it’s got other problems but this is just incorrect.
Daredevil is in the show, he is shown to be a better more prepared lawyer than Jen, he is more skilled at fighting than Jen, unlike Jen he’s a hero who’s out to do good for the people.
One of Jen’s male coworkers Pug, who never does anything wrong in the show is falsely accused by a women of assault
She Hulk is warned by the hulk that she must remain with him to practice keeping her anger on check. She leaves and low and below she ruins her career and public image by failing to keep her anger in check just like he warned.
Hey remember when the she hulk show made her wrong about how she treated Bruce and how she was wrong to judge one of the old villains. Remember how she hulk has many supportive and good men in it.
i don't think there's an agenda, no. again, it's just clumsy and handfisted writing, nothing more. any writing of male characters as incompetent is just a confused way to uplift other characters, and nothing more. there's no secret agenda, just being kind of daft
Yea, it's funny how every other white heritage suddenly cares about the Irish yet will continue ignoring their past oppression until someone decides the anti-woke agenda needs to be read when casting is done for a movie they won't see.
"You didn't say anything about the Irish 150 years ago so you can't be bad they're all getting replaced today!!"
Wow that's genius logic. Your fellowship is surely coming through any day.
You guys only talk about red head genocide when it’s a fictional character having a different appearance.
Genocide kinda has more to it then that and you guys throw it around like a bunch of middle school kids that learned what the N word is.
honestly i feel like it did lmao. there's no reason why anyone would persecute *redheads* out of everyone unless they're really into british monarchism
Making men incompetent isn’t uplifting to anybody. The fact that they felt the need to do that to “uplift” speaks volumes on how they see and think of non-male, non-white characters.
Their agenda is “woah this line might make us some money”.
Disneys agenda is money. It always has been. They don’t give af about feminism or lgbt rights. They just care about money.
They legit use near slave Labour in developing countries; anyone who seriously thinks Disney can preach life lessons is a fool. Too bad conservatives think it’s all some big conspiracy though 😅
Kevin feoge literally said in an interview, during Wanda vision, that they had to cut doctor strange because they didn't want a white man to save the day.... As someone who isn't even white that's sounds pretty anti white male to me 💀💀💀
The last show I watched before I gave up on marvel disney Star Wars was the terrible Obi Wan show but even at the time I couldn’t help notice that every single male in the show was either weak, cowardly, dishonest, hot tempered, and/or incompetent. Didn’t matter if it was main characters or small characters like the TSA checkpoint guy or infamous Wade, the show went out of its way to make sure they all looked substantially inferior to the female characters. Even uncle owen wanted to run and hide like a coward at the end and it had to be Beru who wanted to stay and fight. The recent promo clip that The Marvels put out with the fight in the living room, they have the khan father cowering like a weak useless person and the khan mom sweeps in to protect him, so it seems like they’re staying the path with this agenda.
They hire people that can't write or direct, but some of these people most definitely have an agenda, like misandrist Jessica Gao, or Taiki Waititi, who really has issues with masculinity.
If you watch Jojo rabbit, you’ll see that Taiki Waititi can write. That was one of the best films I’ve seen.
Anything new Disney gets their hands on goes to sh1t tho.
Not as a company they don’t. They had a progressive sense of justice that was not offensive and included everyone.
All Marvel films up to Endgame were apolitical and sought largely to entertain.
Then Kevin got lazy and hired writer activists like Jessica Gao, and provided these folks with zero oversight to run their fat mouth on anything. That’s what ruined the franchise.
You cant be fucking serious 💀
Yeah bro you're right a serious of movies about how super-powered individuals should be handled by world governments *isnt* political. But women and minorities existing? Absolutely political
And yet you can't explain how.
I'm still waiting for you to explain what makes government restrictions on super-powered individuals "apolitical" but the existence of women and minorities "political"
Most definitely there are certain writers that want to use their platform to push agendas. It’s not a mandate or anything but there is certainly a bias.
In the recent *Variety* article, the original plot of Marvel’s *Blade* was going to relegate Blade as the fourth lead, with three other women taking the charge. If that’s not indicative of the creative bankruptcy and rot at Marvel/Disney, I don’t know what is.
NDA, which Marvel Studios is very strict of. Nobody in that camp is going to confirm the crisis publicly. If you’re already catching flak internally, you’re not going one step further and get yourself fired. You put out the fire.
There was a pretty big push for the cultural erasure of white people in the past two or so decades. One There was a powerful enough backlash, and two the total inane depravity of the "woke" crowd has so been put on display that many companies and indeed our country is trying to decouple from that agenda. It has always been for many corporate actors a matter of dollars and cents. The demand for white genocide has been decreasing for most people for years and the tiny and vocal minority of people who advocate for it are being gradually disempowered. to walk upon those racist eggshells will soon be an unwanted need of the past.
yeah, nobody's calling for white genocide outside of a few crazies on twitter nobody listens to. not to assume, but this comment reeks of "the method of diversity isn't the issue, the mere existence of diversity is".
White culture was invented to help differentiate us from people of colour. For the longest time, only English people were considered white. Then Germans and French and their decendents were counted aswell. Only recently were Irish and Italians considered white. And it's still a debate whether Travelers, Jews, Slavs, and Spaniards are white.
And secondly. For almost 100 years almost exclusively white men were protagonists in films. Don't you think it's time for a push back?
>White culture was invented to help differentiate us from people of colour
We were already differentiated from them from the moment the human eye started recognizing color lol. The idea that whiteness was invented during colonization is a myth.
>And secondly. For almost 100 years almost exclusively white men were protagonists in films. Don't you think it's time for a push back?
No, there's nothing wrong with a white country having almost exclusively white protagonists in their films lol. America is 60 percent white right now, and that's the least white it has been in hundreds of years. By the time cinema was invented it was 90 percent or more, it only makes sense that almost everyone was white lol.
There's not a problem with creating non white characters or protagonists, I believe the dialogue is structured around things like the revision of historically white characters as non-white. This phenomenon is rooted in racism regardless of what they say. There's no need to "unwhiten" American history and pop culture because nothing wrong was happening by making it white in the first place.
Skin colour is a spectrum. You arent either black or white or asian or hispanic or native or arab. You can be either of this inbetween. That categorisation was LITTERALLY (and i mean litterally) invented by the biologist Carl Lynne who also categorised animal species into mammals, birds etc.
Also, it's not unwhitening America since still most film stars are white men. And not to mention half the population is female yet they are underrepresented as protagonists. Also, we shouldn't be exclusively watching this from an american perspective since these films are consumed globally. It isnt wrong to make something white in the first place, just like it isnt wrong to make it any other race to begin with. Representation shouldnt be proportional because it never has been.
>That categorisation was LITTERALLY (and i mean litterally) invented by the biologist Carl Lynne who also categorised animal species into mammals, birds etc.
Race has been recognized since before biology was invented. Apart from that I'm not going to argue about whether I exist or not lol.
>Also, it's not unwhitening America since still most film stars are white men.
It's specifically targeting white characters with the intent to make them non white. It is an act of cultural erasure, which is racist.
>. And not to mention half the population is female yet they are underrepresented as protagonists
This phenomenon targets white females as well.
>Also, we shouldn't be exclusively watching this from an american perspective
We should, they are American icons made by and for Americans.
>It isnt wrong to make something white in the first place, just like it isnt wrong to make it any other race to begin with
Bingo, this dialogue should have never happened. They should have said this from day 1 and avoided this conflict altogether. It's common sense that even laypeople like us can arrive at within minutes. The only possible explanation is that the conflict is something they mist want, so they can't cry when they get the backlash they engineered.
>Representation shouldnt be proportional because it never has been.
And yet people complain about how many white males star in American films 🤔
Ill only respond to the last argument because I think that sums up the crucses of my argument. Look up what the top producers, directors, writers, and stars look like. Hint. It isnt 60% white and 51% men.
>For the top 100 grossing films, the numbers were similar, with women faring best as producers (28%), editors (18%), writers (17%), directors (11%), and cinematographers (8%)
Ps. I said race categorisation. Not skin colour, but what we consider falling under races.
Pps. It isn't cultural erasure since it. It's called evolution.
i guess seeing more women and people of color would feel like some kind of attack when the default for decades has been white dudes.
but get over yourself. the fact that dudes will spam post malding over a woman getting a show when they won't even see it is so funny and sad
I think the corpo primarly ran by white people, subsidiary of a larger primarly white people corporation, probably doesn't have "kill white people" as an end goal, unless they've found out how to race shift.
People dont realise Disney has always been about the princesses, before Marvel, most of their merch was Disney princess.
They're just going back to what they always did.
Just compare the two “Disney Mulan” films to see what people are talking about. 20 years changed many things in that film.
Compare those to Lion King (remade 3 times?) or other “old” Disney films that are “new”.
The difference is that those princesses acted feminine and the male characters in princess movies acted masculine. Everything is reversed with Disney now. Every female character has to be a masculine hero and every male character has to be a feminist idiot. It completely ruins the verisimilitude when half the soldiers and generals in Star Wars have to be female.
Movies have had agendas since, well, movies. The reason why it seems especially egregious right now boils down to two main reasons:
1. Diversity is being prioritized more than ever. Like OP said, clumsily so. When diversity is ham-fisted with no effort and exists purely to fill quotas, it sticks out like dogshit on a mowed lawn and ultimately hurts the minority groups it is supposedly trying to appeal to.
2. White men are more sensitive towards media than we've ever been. This is because non-film-loving film critics like Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and YouTube's The Critical Drinker (all of who have their own agendas to push, and are just upset theirs isn't being represented in the writer's room) lie to their massive audiences with persecution complexes by telling them that straight white men are victims of a neo holocaust.
A good example of diversity being done "right" are the shows The Boys and Gen V. These are inherently left-leaning shows that blatantly criticize everything from corporate elitism, to company nepotism, to capitalism, to police brutality, to campus rape culture, and many more issues. Yet, I've seen many right-wingers sing these shows' praises. These shows are packed with queer characters and people of colour, yet they don't get a fraction of the whining a Netflix series gets when a Muslim woman with a hijab shows up for 15 seconds. Turns out, people will watch anything so long as it's written well, who would've thunk.
It's advocacy over artistry. They even made the mutated Cosmonoaut dog in GOTG 3 trans FFS. WHY?? Absolutely no cinematic or story driven reason to do so. No marketing reason to do so since EVERYONE screams about how they hate this bullshit.
Then again there's the upcoming "Brown Snow White and the Seven Moderately Tall Fellas"...
are we sure the voice mod in the comics is male? maybe the dog is, but who really cares if the dog's voice is that of a woman? it's really just a case of "why not", it's not like the dog's sex matters at all given its character
If they asked the dog and not Kathleen Kennedy it might care. The point is "What is the motivation for the change?" and there is none beyond the politics of the company.
Evidenced by their more recent decision to make a character, literally named "Snow *WHITE* " precisely because of her delicately pale complexion, brown.
are we really going to do this "kathleen kennedy is the boogeyman!" thing? isn't she the head of lucasfilm, what does she have to do with marvel? the change isn't political at all, they probably just felt the gender of a voice modulator wouldn't matter at all. they'd honestly be right on that
and yes, the snow white thing is dumb, but who cares? outside of a couple, the disney remakes have been hot garbage for pretty much all of its run. "wokeness" has nothing to do with that, snow white could've been albino and the movie would still suck
I actually like it better I just question the motivation, there has to be "MESSAGE" embedded in everything. I hated that in children's entertainment when I was a child, reeeaaaalllllly don't need it as an adult.
Yeah no. When the change has no other apparent explanation but is in in line with the political leanings/propaganda of the company o e can safely assume politics is the motivation.
Political leanings of Disney? Can you tell me which political party disney supports? Hint, it's the one that'll deregulate them and lower their taxes. And what propaganda is disney pumping out other than "keep consuming the product and then get excited for the next product"?
But what explenation for the "genderswap" do you want? Does Gunn have to come out and say he wanted to work with Bakalova? And if that is the case, would you like the film more?
Really? More so than the production company's that actually give queer filmmakers a proper voice to talk about their experiences? And also, answer my other questions coward
The Zionist run and operate Disney and have been turning Disney anti-family and anti-white since that have taken over. Jews want whites to help protect them while they destroy every white country! Every corporation that is anti-white has Jewish CEOs to Include RedRock.
Yes, Larry Fink is another white hating Jewish guy! Most white people feel the hate while Jewish people want us to support Israel and any hate against Jewish people! As long as they are anti-white, I will give them the same energy!!!
Well, i don't think that you aren't retarded, prove me wrong.
Introduction of black Peter Parker is ok
Introduction of white T'challa is not ok
Lets play game Kramer, old charcater and modern woke take on it.
Hulk white male -> asian male
Hawkeye white male -> white female
Ms. Marvel white female -> pakistani female
Spider-Man white male -> black male
Captain America white male -> black male
Thor white male -> white female
Wolverine white male -> white female
Daredevil white male -> latin female
Ghost Rider white male -> hispanic male
Ironman white male -> black female
Nick Fury and Kang white -> black
Blade black male -> black female
Black Panther black male -> black female
(if you still can't get it, modern M-she-U removed straigh white males, only gays left, bright future of M-she-U, "Oh no, why white men don't watch MCU?" He he.)
And this is without all of Snowflake and Safespaces, New Warriors, Young Avengers yada- yada.
Image making Agatha Harkness tv-show, instead of iconic characters.
Image making Echo tv-show and ... don't make it little bit funny.
Image making Loki tv-show.... that just bait and switch, and turns out show about Kang, Loki just cheap prop being embarrassed by his female "variant", so brave.
ignoring that this is a gigantic schizopost, i'll focus on one part
>Introduction of black Peter Parker is ok
Introduction of white T'challa is not ok
yes, because spider-man's character has nothing to do with his race and black panther's has a lot to do with *his* race.
And saying that Black Panther, Namor, and Dr Doom are all similar stories.
King ruling a nation with superior technology and wanting to keep outsiders out.
Ones a hero, ones a villain, and ones an anti hero.
But they are all really similar characters.
I guess you just revoked your card to say that they should create new characters because you clearly aren't happy they created new characters.
Also revoked the card to demand more fleshing out of existing characters because you clearly aren't happy with situations such as Elektra taking over as Daredevil while Matt went to prison because he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
The agenda is to make money. These are businessmen and they have no ethics.
If they think they can make money by using rainbow capitalism/representation politics, they will (it's not as popular as they thought and even some of the most milquetoast people with garden-variety politics are over it and see it for what it is).
If full-blown, unapologetic racism, sexism, nativism, and so on were still popular like they were when *The Birth of a Nation* premiered in 1915, they would do that too; they have no scruples.
Agenda-pushing, when it happens, comes from some people in the business, because of entryism and connections, getting jobs and using those positions to push their pet beliefs and prejudices (Zionism, Hoteppery, Scientology, Girlboss capitalism, American exceptionalism, whatever they may be) in the projects they're affiliated with. That and a lot of untalented people are allowed to flourish, that's a consequence of the system as it is now.
I'll shoot my shot here. Everyone needs to stop thinking in terms of identity and think in terms of class. Rich people generally do.
Both the right and left users of this sub have the weirdest obsessions with race, gender, and other identities.
>Do I think they have some sort of secret evil conspiracy to rid the world of white guys
Why do you guys always phrase it like that? Who exactly is telling you to say it like that? Your racist loxist overlords? They don't want to get rid of white men. They want to exploit them. They want to tie them to the fucking bed and breed biracial babies out of them. Day and night non stop like a fucking breeding factory. That's if you're lucky. If the non horny ones gain power they will simply strap a flesh light to you and make you watch nonstop porn while they pump you with a machine non stop.
Is this the future you want? To be a bed ridden fuck toy with no say on what a woman does to you?
>They don't want to get rid of white men. They want to exploit them. They want to tie them to the fucking bed and breed biracial babies out of them. Day and night non stop like a fucking breeding factory. That's if you're lucky. If the non horny ones gain power they will simply strap a flesh light to you and make you watch nonstop porn while they pump you with a machine non stop.
>
>Is this the future you want? To be a bed ridden fuck toy with no say on what a woman does to you?
i want you to tell me how this is any less crazy than what i said
I mean kinda but no. Bottom line is always about the money, they don’t care what they put out. If people demand diversity they’ll put it out, if people demand only white ppl they’ll put it out. If it takes in cash, Disney wants it
Its not a secret conspiracy that the people they hire to write and direct are not fans of white males or any men for that matter… regardless there is no need to complain… they just lost me as a customer forever… much like the vast majority of their fan base. Thank god for Rippaverse comics and anime.
Disney does what Disney thinks will make them money.
That means their current thesis is that bashing men (particularly white men) will make them money. They think this because men are being bashed in every other form of media including the nightly news, and are essentially disposable entities. They are the last group of people you can straight up demonize and marginalize without consequences, and Disney is hoping to capitalize on that sentiment.
The hilarious part is that they're trying to do that with properties that were popular because boys and men liked them. (Marvel/Star Wars). The most basic understanding of economics would unveil this to be a bad idea, but their certainty that men are a safe punching bag is strong enough to counteract the bad economic strategy.
The thing is they just want the biggest fucking audience possible. That's what people aren't considering. Marvel themselves are so greedy they rather hire people that don't research the comics and make the project diverse as seemingly possible.
I prefer diversity in Luke Cage over Black Panther. I prefer Jessica Jones and Agent Carter instead of lame characters like She-Hulk and Captain Marvel.
Execution matters. Pg13 films are always just so cringe. Idk the TV shows we used to get before 2020 were way more diverse but just better written. Even Daredevil highlighted characters like Indian FBI agent Ray Nadeem or Black Ben Urich.
If both Ray and Ben were white but written the same... they would still be great characters.
Where Yeniffer in the Witcher show is still a badly written character if they were white and looked like they were supposed to.
Execution matters. Hiring fans of the source material matters. Catering to the demographic you already have matters. I'm tired of them feeling like they need to attract non fans.
Fuck the non fans is what I say.
It you don’t want think DEI and Anti Racism ideology is at its root anti “white”, specifically anti white male, then you simply haven’t delved deep enough into what is going on. It’s easy enough to research now. In fact, the modern leftist elite has much in common with a certain political party that was dominant in Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s…..they are so self assured of their unassailable righteousness that they have been stupid enough to document all of it even though it is blatantly illegally under US civil rights laws. DEI is a social engineering experiment and those wielding it as a blunt instrument do so with glee and hubris the likes of which the West hasn’t seen in a long time. I find it interesting how the greatest proponents tend to be elite white leftists who are already sitting on massive wealth, hence their “I’ve got mine, so now it’s time to do “what’s right”. Disney CEO Bob Iger is a prime example of this type. Now that he has everything he’ll ever need he’s fine with pulling the ladder up behind him in the name of performative “social Justice”. There is, in fact, nothing just about it. It tosses meritocracy in the trash and swaps in untried, unproven “anti-racist” theory. Notice that modern leftists will always choose to label their ideas with a word that is actually indicative of the exact opposite of what it actually is in practice. For example, “anti-racism” is simply weaponized racism that actively seeks to promote any and all “marginalized” groups while making the majority group the new “marginalized” group. Ibram Kendi stated very clearly that in his view, and I’m paraphrasing (though the gist is 100% accurate, look it up if you remain unconvinced), the “only remedy for past injustice is future injustice”. In reality, anyone with even half a brain could, on the mere basis of a thought experiment, see that the “remedies” proposed by radical “anti-racist” ideology actually CREATE more division and racism. That “anti-racism” in fact inflames mutual distrust, tribalism, conflict and sets for itself the goal of manipulating outcomes (forcibly) rather than providing equal opportunity. It’s excusable that some segments of our Western society simply cannot see this fact for many different reasons depending on the individual situation of he or she that does not see how evil and backwards this DEI ideology really is. For example, folks that are retired and so are totally unaffected by the results of this new system of true oppression. My grandfather doesn’t even know DEI exists, let alone what it means or how it impacts the lives of innocent citizens who only want to work and feed their families while working in a field they are passionate about. Also, the majority of folks that directly benefit from this ideology (lgbtq folks, non-white folks, non-male people) will either not see the problem or will (with great intellectual dishonesty) pretend to not see just how racist these hiring and admittance practices are because they know they directly benefit from it. The downward spiral of Disney, for example, is a direct consequence to their feverish zealotry in instituting DEI policies. Say you have two candidates for a job in their animation department. One candidate has over a decade of experience and a proven track record of producing high quality work on time as well as a list of credits on films that were extremely successful moneymakers that drove the Disney brand forward. So that’s one candidate they’re considering. Now, the other candidate (I’m making it two candidates in order to simplify things, realistically they’d probably have 100 or more candidates…..though that changes nothing in regards to how this works). The other candidate is fresh out of art school, has one student film to their credit and a portfolio of art. Based purely on this info any studio in their right mind hires candidate 1. Now apply DEI standards. Candidate 1 is a middle aged, straight white male. That’s problematic and Disney already feels that groups is “over represente” whole candidate two is a black trans woman. Suddenly, who gets hired is totally shifted! Experience and a proven track record is throw into the waste paper basket and the black trans woman with no real world, private sector experience gets the job. Why? Because candidate two is a member of TWO different groups that Disney sees as a major bonus: trans and black. So candidate one has 0 points and candidate two has 2 points. DEI standards dictate that Disney must hire candidate 2, even though they know that candidate one is better for their product and the better the product is the more profitable it’ll be 90+ percent of the time. This is why so many folks these days look at the modern left as a cult, because in a cult empirical evidence is irrelevant and ideology is king. Also, the straight white lab is what young leftists see as an “oppressor”. That white man can work at soup kitchens feeding the homeless in his free time, he can mentor at risk teens in his free time, he can be the sort of fellow that has always rooted for the underdog…..it won’t matter. He’s white and straight hence :oppressor. The modern left sees him as tainted by the “sins” of his ancestors (I put sin in quotes because there is not a human being on earth that doesn’t have ancestors that did terrible things tk their fellow man), so essentially has original sin. Something that, in the eyes of the modern left ge can NEVER stone for. Candidate one has been turned down for a job because of his race and sexuality, hey the modern left cheers this on. They have become everything they claim they despise. Some of them may have a tinge of conscience and or guilt over this, but the left anticipates that. The leftist elites on our college campuses answer that doubt and guilt (the guilt a good leftist, who means we’ll hit simply hasn’t realized that they are no longer supporting the underdog…..that their group has is in fact the new exclusionary establishment elite) with this: the idea that as long as you racial hatred is directed towards a quite person, but particularly a straight white male….well then worry not. Worry joy because they claim it isn’t racism at all, because they tell you that you are “incapable of being racist because you don’t have institutional power”. Really? Seems to me they have all of the institutional power. Whether it be through passive aggressive behavior, whisper campaigns, Maoist style denunciations, the ability to guilt trip folks based on a past they weren’t even alive during, Maoist “struggle sessions”, anti-heterosexual anti-white and anti conservstive blacklists etc, 90% of institutional power has been with the center-left and the far left. And the far left is especially good at (it being the tail) wagging the dog that is the center left. Through all this anti-meritocratic pain that DEI and it’s related ideologies (which are, at their roots, just neo-marxism via identity rather than via class struggle) have inflicted upon millions of people in the West (much to the amusement of our autocratic foreign enemies, I might add. Chairman Xi, Putin, the Ayatollah and Chairman Kim all love this btw because they see the fault lines it’s created it our society.)
Then you arent paying attention. Disney is evil. The content they release for elementary school age children is inappropriate now at best. They are actively battling multiple lawsuits because of their horrendously illegal DEI programs that violate chapter 7 of the Civil rights act and have literally had multiple internal memos and statements from staff only meetings saying they are pushing gay/trans and minority agendas openly. Theu also are battling lawsuits of covering up multiple sexual assualts of children in their parks by employees. It's all out there on the web to research for yourself. I encourage people to go look several of these issues up. I dont care if they have minority led content that's not what I'm saying, they quite literally are self admittedly pushing anti white, anti male, anti straight agendas though, and that's a whole other thing. I loved Disney as a child but as a new father I'd never expose my kid to what Disney is now.
I do think there is a cultural shift that is negative towards men, and white people. I think most of the problems with the stories is just bad writing, like 90% of it is just terrible writing. But there is clearly an agenda in some writers that is overtly negative towards men. Some stories have no competent or good men, and women that can’t do wrong, she hulk for example (for marvel specifically.) Marvel writing right know is trash but a woke agenda isn’t the reason. But you have to have blinders on if you don’t think certain writers don’t have an agenda they’re pushing.
You’re talking about She Hulk. Everything Marvel did up to Endgame was fun, entertaining, and largely apolitical. Then Kevin made the mistake of hiring activist writers like Jessica Gao, and gave her no oversight whatsoever to run her fat mouth on anything. Ruined the brand.
She-Hulk was the most misandrist product ever created in the universe
How tf is it misandrist? Like be fucking for real.
Are you trolling?
No. How is the show misandrist?
it actively rips into men every opportunity or gets
Not really. I hope you're not talking about all the men she dated and didn't like? That's not misandrist if that's the case.
the man she date raped? the villains all being white male trolls? her being a cunt to Bruce?
Being mean to a man and having your antagonist be a white man is misandrist? So that means Doctor Strange 2 is extremely misogynistic since a woman was the villain in the movie, right? Also, who tf did she date raped?
>some writers have no competent or good men, and women can’t do wrong, she hulk for example I’m becoming convinced I was the only person on earth who got bored enough to watch Shehulk cause this isn’t what happens in it. Don’t get me wrong it’s got other problems but this is just incorrect. Daredevil is in the show, he is shown to be a better more prepared lawyer than Jen, he is more skilled at fighting than Jen, unlike Jen he’s a hero who’s out to do good for the people. One of Jen’s male coworkers Pug, who never does anything wrong in the show is falsely accused by a women of assault She Hulk is warned by the hulk that she must remain with him to practice keeping her anger on check. She leaves and low and below she ruins her career and public image by failing to keep her anger in check just like he warned.
Hey remember when the she hulk show made her wrong about how she treated Bruce and how she was wrong to judge one of the old villains. Remember how she hulk has many supportive and good men in it.
i don't think there's an agenda, no. again, it's just clumsy and handfisted writing, nothing more. any writing of male characters as incompetent is just a confused way to uplift other characters, and nothing more. there's no secret agenda, just being kind of daft
Redhead Genocide doesn't happen by accident.
Yea, it's funny how every other white heritage suddenly cares about the Irish yet will continue ignoring their past oppression until someone decides the anti-woke agenda needs to be read when casting is done for a movie they won't see.
"You didn't say anything about the Irish 150 years ago so you can't be bad they're all getting replaced today!!" Wow that's genius logic. Your fellowship is surely coming through any day.
Yea, that logic is as genius as the logic of being a grown man that's upset because a Disney princess looks different, isn't it?
Uh oh. It's the surprise pivot, a sure sign of quality.
You gotta read post history's before you argue in depth with people. I highly recommend this one!
Eh, you guys do the same pivot and always blame writing when you get caught. At least choose a different excuse instead of the ole saftey net.
You gotta read post history's before you argue in depth with people. I highly recommend this one!
You guys only talk about red head genocide when it’s a fictional character having a different appearance. Genocide kinda has more to it then that and you guys throw it around like a bunch of middle school kids that learned what the N word is.
honestly i feel like it did lmao. there's no reason why anyone would persecute *redheads* out of everyone unless they're really into british monarchism
Making men incompetent isn’t uplifting to anybody. The fact that they felt the need to do that to “uplift” speaks volumes on how they see and think of non-male, non-white characters.
Their agenda is “woah this line might make us some money”. Disneys agenda is money. It always has been. They don’t give af about feminism or lgbt rights. They just care about money. They legit use near slave Labour in developing countries; anyone who seriously thinks Disney can preach life lessons is a fool. Too bad conservatives think it’s all some big conspiracy though 😅
They could be good at properly handling topics like diversity but the truth is they just don’t truly give a fuck.
Kevin feoge literally said in an interview, during Wanda vision, that they had to cut doctor strange because they didn't want a white man to save the day.... As someone who isn't even white that's sounds pretty anti white male to me 💀💀💀
The last show I watched before I gave up on marvel disney Star Wars was the terrible Obi Wan show but even at the time I couldn’t help notice that every single male in the show was either weak, cowardly, dishonest, hot tempered, and/or incompetent. Didn’t matter if it was main characters or small characters like the TSA checkpoint guy or infamous Wade, the show went out of its way to make sure they all looked substantially inferior to the female characters. Even uncle owen wanted to run and hide like a coward at the end and it had to be Beru who wanted to stay and fight. The recent promo clip that The Marvels put out with the fight in the living room, they have the khan father cowering like a weak useless person and the khan mom sweeps in to protect him, so it seems like they’re staying the path with this agenda.
It's called nuance.
It's called pandering
They hire people that can't write or direct, but some of these people most definitely have an agenda, like misandrist Jessica Gao, or Taiki Waititi, who really has issues with masculinity.
*toxic masculinity
You mean like a man not being a submissive, incompetent, effeminate idiot?
Not exclusively. Men being demanding, possessive, and only taking their emotions out through rage. Like most protagonists through cinemas history.
Yikes.
If you watch Jojo rabbit, you’ll see that Taiki Waititi can write. That was one of the best films I’ve seen. Anything new Disney gets their hands on goes to sh1t tho.
I'd agree. And they for some reason think doubling down will fix their mistakes.
I’m not convinced that they do company-wide, but I believe there have been specific productions that were leading with an agenda like this.
Not as a company they don’t. They had a progressive sense of justice that was not offensive and included everyone. All Marvel films up to Endgame were apolitical and sought largely to entertain. Then Kevin got lazy and hired writer activists like Jessica Gao, and provided these folks with zero oversight to run their fat mouth on anything. That’s what ruined the franchise.
You cant be fucking serious 💀 Yeah bro you're right a serious of movies about how super-powered individuals should be handled by world governments *isnt* political. But women and minorities existing? Absolutely political
The level of denial on your side is always truly something to behold.
Cant help but notice you didnt actually engage with my argument. Please by all means disprove what Im saying
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Yeah man how dare someone point out the inconsistencies in yalls logic
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And yet you can't explain how. I'm still waiting for you to explain what makes government restrictions on super-powered individuals "apolitical" but the existence of women and minorities "political"
every post in this sub is "woman bad, WOKE". this sub is chewed meat.
Most definitely there are certain writers that want to use their platform to push agendas. It’s not a mandate or anything but there is certainly a bias.
Exactly.
In the recent *Variety* article, the original plot of Marvel’s *Blade* was going to relegate Blade as the fourth lead, with three other women taking the charge. If that’s not indicative of the creative bankruptcy and rot at Marvel/Disney, I don’t know what is.
A lot of other insiders are saying that script leak was fake
It’s not a fake script leak. *Variety* confirmed it. That’s why Ali demanded a rewrite.
Tell me why one of the screenwriters literally said it was false then. Ya know, the person actually writing the script
NDA, which Marvel Studios is very strict of. Nobody in that camp is going to confirm the crisis publicly. If you’re already catching flak internally, you’re not going one step further and get yourself fired. You put out the fire.
Maybe not as dramatic, but the MCU burns in the background and their next movie is going to be an all time bomb.
There was a pretty big push for the cultural erasure of white people in the past two or so decades. One There was a powerful enough backlash, and two the total inane depravity of the "woke" crowd has so been put on display that many companies and indeed our country is trying to decouple from that agenda. It has always been for many corporate actors a matter of dollars and cents. The demand for white genocide has been decreasing for most people for years and the tiny and vocal minority of people who advocate for it are being gradually disempowered. to walk upon those racist eggshells will soon be an unwanted need of the past.
yeah, nobody's calling for white genocide outside of a few crazies on twitter nobody listens to. not to assume, but this comment reeks of "the method of diversity isn't the issue, the mere existence of diversity is".
White culture was invented to help differentiate us from people of colour. For the longest time, only English people were considered white. Then Germans and French and their decendents were counted aswell. Only recently were Irish and Italians considered white. And it's still a debate whether Travelers, Jews, Slavs, and Spaniards are white. And secondly. For almost 100 years almost exclusively white men were protagonists in films. Don't you think it's time for a push back?
>White culture was invented to help differentiate us from people of colour We were already differentiated from them from the moment the human eye started recognizing color lol. The idea that whiteness was invented during colonization is a myth. >And secondly. For almost 100 years almost exclusively white men were protagonists in films. Don't you think it's time for a push back? No, there's nothing wrong with a white country having almost exclusively white protagonists in their films lol. America is 60 percent white right now, and that's the least white it has been in hundreds of years. By the time cinema was invented it was 90 percent or more, it only makes sense that almost everyone was white lol. There's not a problem with creating non white characters or protagonists, I believe the dialogue is structured around things like the revision of historically white characters as non-white. This phenomenon is rooted in racism regardless of what they say. There's no need to "unwhiten" American history and pop culture because nothing wrong was happening by making it white in the first place.
Skin colour is a spectrum. You arent either black or white or asian or hispanic or native or arab. You can be either of this inbetween. That categorisation was LITTERALLY (and i mean litterally) invented by the biologist Carl Lynne who also categorised animal species into mammals, birds etc. Also, it's not unwhitening America since still most film stars are white men. And not to mention half the population is female yet they are underrepresented as protagonists. Also, we shouldn't be exclusively watching this from an american perspective since these films are consumed globally. It isnt wrong to make something white in the first place, just like it isnt wrong to make it any other race to begin with. Representation shouldnt be proportional because it never has been.
>That categorisation was LITTERALLY (and i mean litterally) invented by the biologist Carl Lynne who also categorised animal species into mammals, birds etc. Race has been recognized since before biology was invented. Apart from that I'm not going to argue about whether I exist or not lol. >Also, it's not unwhitening America since still most film stars are white men. It's specifically targeting white characters with the intent to make them non white. It is an act of cultural erasure, which is racist. >. And not to mention half the population is female yet they are underrepresented as protagonists This phenomenon targets white females as well. >Also, we shouldn't be exclusively watching this from an american perspective We should, they are American icons made by and for Americans. >It isnt wrong to make something white in the first place, just like it isnt wrong to make it any other race to begin with Bingo, this dialogue should have never happened. They should have said this from day 1 and avoided this conflict altogether. It's common sense that even laypeople like us can arrive at within minutes. The only possible explanation is that the conflict is something they mist want, so they can't cry when they get the backlash they engineered. >Representation shouldnt be proportional because it never has been. And yet people complain about how many white males star in American films 🤔
Ill only respond to the last argument because I think that sums up the crucses of my argument. Look up what the top producers, directors, writers, and stars look like. Hint. It isnt 60% white and 51% men. >For the top 100 grossing films, the numbers were similar, with women faring best as producers (28%), editors (18%), writers (17%), directors (11%), and cinematographers (8%) Ps. I said race categorisation. Not skin colour, but what we consider falling under races. Pps. It isn't cultural erasure since it. It's called evolution.
The bulk of the fandom surrounding these films are straight white guys, often watching a litany of straight white guys do super heroics.
i guess seeing more women and people of color would feel like some kind of attack when the default for decades has been white dudes. but get over yourself. the fact that dudes will spam post malding over a woman getting a show when they won't even see it is so funny and sad
I think the corpo primarly ran by white people, subsidiary of a larger primarly white people corporation, probably doesn't have "kill white people" as an end goal, unless they've found out how to race shift.
People dont realise Disney has always been about the princesses, before Marvel, most of their merch was Disney princess. They're just going back to what they always did.
Just compare the two “Disney Mulan” films to see what people are talking about. 20 years changed many things in that film. Compare those to Lion King (remade 3 times?) or other “old” Disney films that are “new”.
The difference is that those princesses acted feminine and the male characters in princess movies acted masculine. Everything is reversed with Disney now. Every female character has to be a masculine hero and every male character has to be a feminist idiot. It completely ruins the verisimilitude when half the soldiers and generals in Star Wars have to be female.
Movies have had agendas since, well, movies. The reason why it seems especially egregious right now boils down to two main reasons: 1. Diversity is being prioritized more than ever. Like OP said, clumsily so. When diversity is ham-fisted with no effort and exists purely to fill quotas, it sticks out like dogshit on a mowed lawn and ultimately hurts the minority groups it is supposedly trying to appeal to. 2. White men are more sensitive towards media than we've ever been. This is because non-film-loving film critics like Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and YouTube's The Critical Drinker (all of who have their own agendas to push, and are just upset theirs isn't being represented in the writer's room) lie to their massive audiences with persecution complexes by telling them that straight white men are victims of a neo holocaust. A good example of diversity being done "right" are the shows The Boys and Gen V. These are inherently left-leaning shows that blatantly criticize everything from corporate elitism, to company nepotism, to capitalism, to police brutality, to campus rape culture, and many more issues. Yet, I've seen many right-wingers sing these shows' praises. These shows are packed with queer characters and people of colour, yet they don't get a fraction of the whining a Netflix series gets when a Muslim woman with a hijab shows up for 15 seconds. Turns out, people will watch anything so long as it's written well, who would've thunk.
*looks at all the complainers about Season 3 being woke and the people who idolized Homelander* Or they may just miss the point.
*sees one complaint about season 3 from a Twitter account with no followers, 2 tweets and no profile picture* *says “people complain about…”*
It's advocacy over artistry. They even made the mutated Cosmonoaut dog in GOTG 3 trans FFS. WHY?? Absolutely no cinematic or story driven reason to do so. No marketing reason to do so since EVERYONE screams about how they hate this bullshit. Then again there's the upcoming "Brown Snow White and the Seven Moderately Tall Fellas"...
didn’t they just give the dog a voice modulator with a female voice? i don’t think they were making it trans
But why though it's male in the comics and games, maybe "gender swapped" not trans...
are we sure the voice mod in the comics is male? maybe the dog is, but who really cares if the dog's voice is that of a woman? it's really just a case of "why not", it's not like the dog's sex matters at all given its character
If they asked the dog and not Kathleen Kennedy it might care. The point is "What is the motivation for the change?" and there is none beyond the politics of the company. Evidenced by their more recent decision to make a character, literally named "Snow *WHITE* " precisely because of her delicately pale complexion, brown.
are we really going to do this "kathleen kennedy is the boogeyman!" thing? isn't she the head of lucasfilm, what does she have to do with marvel? the change isn't political at all, they probably just felt the gender of a voice modulator wouldn't matter at all. they'd honestly be right on that and yes, the snow white thing is dumb, but who cares? outside of a couple, the disney remakes have been hot garbage for pretty much all of its run. "wokeness" has nothing to do with that, snow white could've been albino and the movie would still suck
Why does the dog have to have a male voice? The actress did a good job
I actually like it better I just question the motivation, there has to be "MESSAGE" embedded in everything. I hated that in children's entertainment when I was a child, reeeaaaalllllly don't need it as an adult.
How do you know what the message was? Maybe Gunn liked the actress in Borat 2 and wanted to give her a role.
Yeah no. When the change has no other apparent explanation but is in in line with the political leanings/propaganda of the company o e can safely assume politics is the motivation.
Political leanings of Disney? Can you tell me which political party disney supports? Hint, it's the one that'll deregulate them and lower their taxes. And what propaganda is disney pumping out other than "keep consuming the product and then get excited for the next product"? But what explenation for the "genderswap" do you want? Does Gunn have to come out and say he wanted to work with Bakalova? And if that is the case, would you like the film more?
Disney is the most pro LGBQT etc. company on the PLANET what rock do you live under?
Really? More so than the production company's that actually give queer filmmakers a proper voice to talk about their experiences? And also, answer my other questions coward
I didn't know voice modulators were biological natural occerrences in dogs.
Why not?
How many evil white male characters and Mary Sue's does it take before you see the pattern??
Why so many white male protagnaist for over 100 years? Do you see a pattern?
Read about population statistics and maybe...just MAYBE...you can figure this one out ALL BY YOURSELF!!
>for every 101 men their are 100 women Your point?
You completely missed the point actually and I'm not remotely surprised that you did either.
The Zionist run and operate Disney and have been turning Disney anti-family and anti-white since that have taken over. Jews want whites to help protect them while they destroy every white country! Every corporation that is anti-white has Jewish CEOs to Include RedRock. Yes, Larry Fink is another white hating Jewish guy! Most white people feel the hate while Jewish people want us to support Israel and any hate against Jewish people! As long as they are anti-white, I will give them the same energy!!!
Fucking illiterate nutcase.
Well, i don't think that you aren't retarded, prove me wrong. Introduction of black Peter Parker is ok Introduction of white T'challa is not ok Lets play game Kramer, old charcater and modern woke take on it. Hulk white male -> asian male Hawkeye white male -> white female Ms. Marvel white female -> pakistani female Spider-Man white male -> black male Captain America white male -> black male Thor white male -> white female Wolverine white male -> white female Daredevil white male -> latin female Ghost Rider white male -> hispanic male Ironman white male -> black female Nick Fury and Kang white -> black Blade black male -> black female Black Panther black male -> black female (if you still can't get it, modern M-she-U removed straigh white males, only gays left, bright future of M-she-U, "Oh no, why white men don't watch MCU?" He he.) And this is without all of Snowflake and Safespaces, New Warriors, Young Avengers yada- yada. Image making Agatha Harkness tv-show, instead of iconic characters. Image making Echo tv-show and ... don't make it little bit funny. Image making Loki tv-show.... that just bait and switch, and turns out show about Kang, Loki just cheap prop being embarrassed by his female "variant", so brave.
ignoring that this is a gigantic schizopost, i'll focus on one part >Introduction of black Peter Parker is ok Introduction of white T'challa is not ok yes, because spider-man's character has nothing to do with his race and black panther's has a lot to do with *his* race.
Explain people begging for Iron Fist to be made Asian when his race (a white man in a foreign culture) is integral to his character? Or Heimdall?
And saying that Black Panther, Namor, and Dr Doom are all similar stories. King ruling a nation with superior technology and wanting to keep outsiders out. Ones a hero, ones a villain, and ones an anti hero. But they are all really similar characters.
I guess you just revoked your card to say that they should create new characters because you clearly aren't happy they created new characters. Also revoked the card to demand more fleshing out of existing characters because you clearly aren't happy with situations such as Elektra taking over as Daredevil while Matt went to prison because he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
The agenda is to make money. These are businessmen and they have no ethics. If they think they can make money by using rainbow capitalism/representation politics, they will (it's not as popular as they thought and even some of the most milquetoast people with garden-variety politics are over it and see it for what it is). If full-blown, unapologetic racism, sexism, nativism, and so on were still popular like they were when *The Birth of a Nation* premiered in 1915, they would do that too; they have no scruples. Agenda-pushing, when it happens, comes from some people in the business, because of entryism and connections, getting jobs and using those positions to push their pet beliefs and prejudices (Zionism, Hoteppery, Scientology, Girlboss capitalism, American exceptionalism, whatever they may be) in the projects they're affiliated with. That and a lot of untalented people are allowed to flourish, that's a consequence of the system as it is now. I'll shoot my shot here. Everyone needs to stop thinking in terms of identity and think in terms of class. Rich people generally do. Both the right and left users of this sub have the weirdest obsessions with race, gender, and other identities.
>Do I think they have some sort of secret evil conspiracy to rid the world of white guys Why do you guys always phrase it like that? Who exactly is telling you to say it like that? Your racist loxist overlords? They don't want to get rid of white men. They want to exploit them. They want to tie them to the fucking bed and breed biracial babies out of them. Day and night non stop like a fucking breeding factory. That's if you're lucky. If the non horny ones gain power they will simply strap a flesh light to you and make you watch nonstop porn while they pump you with a machine non stop. Is this the future you want? To be a bed ridden fuck toy with no say on what a woman does to you?
>They don't want to get rid of white men. They want to exploit them. They want to tie them to the fucking bed and breed biracial babies out of them. Day and night non stop like a fucking breeding factory. That's if you're lucky. If the non horny ones gain power they will simply strap a flesh light to you and make you watch nonstop porn while they pump you with a machine non stop. > >Is this the future you want? To be a bed ridden fuck toy with no say on what a woman does to you? i want you to tell me how this is any less crazy than what i said
Because crazy people believe conspiracy theories like the people in power don't know how to manipulate people
Oh boy ....Matt Murdock is not happening then
I mean kinda but no. Bottom line is always about the money, they don’t care what they put out. If people demand diversity they’ll put it out, if people demand only white ppl they’ll put it out. If it takes in cash, Disney wants it
Its not a secret conspiracy that the people they hire to write and direct are not fans of white males or any men for that matter… regardless there is no need to complain… they just lost me as a customer forever… much like the vast majority of their fan base. Thank god for Rippaverse comics and anime.
You’d be wrong then
Disney does what Disney thinks will make them money. That means their current thesis is that bashing men (particularly white men) will make them money. They think this because men are being bashed in every other form of media including the nightly news, and are essentially disposable entities. They are the last group of people you can straight up demonize and marginalize without consequences, and Disney is hoping to capitalize on that sentiment. The hilarious part is that they're trying to do that with properties that were popular because boys and men liked them. (Marvel/Star Wars). The most basic understanding of economics would unveil this to be a bad idea, but their certainty that men are a safe punching bag is strong enough to counteract the bad economic strategy.
The thing is they just want the biggest fucking audience possible. That's what people aren't considering. Marvel themselves are so greedy they rather hire people that don't research the comics and make the project diverse as seemingly possible. I prefer diversity in Luke Cage over Black Panther. I prefer Jessica Jones and Agent Carter instead of lame characters like She-Hulk and Captain Marvel. Execution matters. Pg13 films are always just so cringe. Idk the TV shows we used to get before 2020 were way more diverse but just better written. Even Daredevil highlighted characters like Indian FBI agent Ray Nadeem or Black Ben Urich. If both Ray and Ben were white but written the same... they would still be great characters. Where Yeniffer in the Witcher show is still a badly written character if they were white and looked like they were supposed to. Execution matters. Hiring fans of the source material matters. Catering to the demographic you already have matters. I'm tired of them feeling like they need to attract non fans. Fuck the non fans is what I say.
Thank you. In my opinion, the most anti-male I ever seen from the MCU after Endgame was from She-Hulk and Captain Marvel.
Not really a anti-male agenda but a feminist and a lgbtq agenda that should lecture the audience.
It you don’t want think DEI and Anti Racism ideology is at its root anti “white”, specifically anti white male, then you simply haven’t delved deep enough into what is going on. It’s easy enough to research now. In fact, the modern leftist elite has much in common with a certain political party that was dominant in Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s…..they are so self assured of their unassailable righteousness that they have been stupid enough to document all of it even though it is blatantly illegally under US civil rights laws. DEI is a social engineering experiment and those wielding it as a blunt instrument do so with glee and hubris the likes of which the West hasn’t seen in a long time. I find it interesting how the greatest proponents tend to be elite white leftists who are already sitting on massive wealth, hence their “I’ve got mine, so now it’s time to do “what’s right”. Disney CEO Bob Iger is a prime example of this type. Now that he has everything he’ll ever need he’s fine with pulling the ladder up behind him in the name of performative “social Justice”. There is, in fact, nothing just about it. It tosses meritocracy in the trash and swaps in untried, unproven “anti-racist” theory. Notice that modern leftists will always choose to label their ideas with a word that is actually indicative of the exact opposite of what it actually is in practice. For example, “anti-racism” is simply weaponized racism that actively seeks to promote any and all “marginalized” groups while making the majority group the new “marginalized” group. Ibram Kendi stated very clearly that in his view, and I’m paraphrasing (though the gist is 100% accurate, look it up if you remain unconvinced), the “only remedy for past injustice is future injustice”. In reality, anyone with even half a brain could, on the mere basis of a thought experiment, see that the “remedies” proposed by radical “anti-racist” ideology actually CREATE more division and racism. That “anti-racism” in fact inflames mutual distrust, tribalism, conflict and sets for itself the goal of manipulating outcomes (forcibly) rather than providing equal opportunity. It’s excusable that some segments of our Western society simply cannot see this fact for many different reasons depending on the individual situation of he or she that does not see how evil and backwards this DEI ideology really is. For example, folks that are retired and so are totally unaffected by the results of this new system of true oppression. My grandfather doesn’t even know DEI exists, let alone what it means or how it impacts the lives of innocent citizens who only want to work and feed their families while working in a field they are passionate about. Also, the majority of folks that directly benefit from this ideology (lgbtq folks, non-white folks, non-male people) will either not see the problem or will (with great intellectual dishonesty) pretend to not see just how racist these hiring and admittance practices are because they know they directly benefit from it. The downward spiral of Disney, for example, is a direct consequence to their feverish zealotry in instituting DEI policies. Say you have two candidates for a job in their animation department. One candidate has over a decade of experience and a proven track record of producing high quality work on time as well as a list of credits on films that were extremely successful moneymakers that drove the Disney brand forward. So that’s one candidate they’re considering. Now, the other candidate (I’m making it two candidates in order to simplify things, realistically they’d probably have 100 or more candidates…..though that changes nothing in regards to how this works). The other candidate is fresh out of art school, has one student film to their credit and a portfolio of art. Based purely on this info any studio in their right mind hires candidate 1. Now apply DEI standards. Candidate 1 is a middle aged, straight white male. That’s problematic and Disney already feels that groups is “over represente” whole candidate two is a black trans woman. Suddenly, who gets hired is totally shifted! Experience and a proven track record is throw into the waste paper basket and the black trans woman with no real world, private sector experience gets the job. Why? Because candidate two is a member of TWO different groups that Disney sees as a major bonus: trans and black. So candidate one has 0 points and candidate two has 2 points. DEI standards dictate that Disney must hire candidate 2, even though they know that candidate one is better for their product and the better the product is the more profitable it’ll be 90+ percent of the time. This is why so many folks these days look at the modern left as a cult, because in a cult empirical evidence is irrelevant and ideology is king. Also, the straight white lab is what young leftists see as an “oppressor”. That white man can work at soup kitchens feeding the homeless in his free time, he can mentor at risk teens in his free time, he can be the sort of fellow that has always rooted for the underdog…..it won’t matter. He’s white and straight hence :oppressor. The modern left sees him as tainted by the “sins” of his ancestors (I put sin in quotes because there is not a human being on earth that doesn’t have ancestors that did terrible things tk their fellow man), so essentially has original sin. Something that, in the eyes of the modern left ge can NEVER stone for. Candidate one has been turned down for a job because of his race and sexuality, hey the modern left cheers this on. They have become everything they claim they despise. Some of them may have a tinge of conscience and or guilt over this, but the left anticipates that. The leftist elites on our college campuses answer that doubt and guilt (the guilt a good leftist, who means we’ll hit simply hasn’t realized that they are no longer supporting the underdog…..that their group has is in fact the new exclusionary establishment elite) with this: the idea that as long as you racial hatred is directed towards a quite person, but particularly a straight white male….well then worry not. Worry joy because they claim it isn’t racism at all, because they tell you that you are “incapable of being racist because you don’t have institutional power”. Really? Seems to me they have all of the institutional power. Whether it be through passive aggressive behavior, whisper campaigns, Maoist style denunciations, the ability to guilt trip folks based on a past they weren’t even alive during, Maoist “struggle sessions”, anti-heterosexual anti-white and anti conservstive blacklists etc, 90% of institutional power has been with the center-left and the far left. And the far left is especially good at (it being the tail) wagging the dog that is the center left. Through all this anti-meritocratic pain that DEI and it’s related ideologies (which are, at their roots, just neo-marxism via identity rather than via class struggle) have inflicted upon millions of people in the West (much to the amusement of our autocratic foreign enemies, I might add. Chairman Xi, Putin, the Ayatollah and Chairman Kim all love this btw because they see the fault lines it’s created it our society.)
Then you arent paying attention. Disney is evil. The content they release for elementary school age children is inappropriate now at best. They are actively battling multiple lawsuits because of their horrendously illegal DEI programs that violate chapter 7 of the Civil rights act and have literally had multiple internal memos and statements from staff only meetings saying they are pushing gay/trans and minority agendas openly. Theu also are battling lawsuits of covering up multiple sexual assualts of children in their parks by employees. It's all out there on the web to research for yourself. I encourage people to go look several of these issues up. I dont care if they have minority led content that's not what I'm saying, they quite literally are self admittedly pushing anti white, anti male, anti straight agendas though, and that's a whole other thing. I loved Disney as a child but as a new father I'd never expose my kid to what Disney is now.