Completely dishonest virtue signaling from big corporations, as is usual.
Zentetsuken wrote:It's nice to see a big corporation like Disney using their influence to fight back against crazy anti-progressive ideologies like Florida's backwards "don't say gay" law.
Wikipedia article 'Disney and Florida's ''Don't Say Gay'' bill wrote:In late February 2022, it was discovered that The Walt Disney Company had previously made campaign contributions to the bill's sponsors.
Disney CEO Bob Chapek released an internal statement on March 7, stating that the company would not take a public stance on the bill and instead focus on affecting change through its content. This caused controversy, with many individuals associated with Disney speaking out against its stance. Pixar employees revealed that despite Chapek's statement, Disney often removed references to homosexuality and LGBT themes from the studio's films in past decades.
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Alongside Disney, many other corporations donated money to the bill's sponsors.[12] Some of them include UnitedHealth Group ($200,000), Publix ($125,000), Charter Communications ($102,000), AT&T ($86,000), Anheuser-Busch ($75,000), Duke Energy ($34,000), Comcast/NBCUniversal ($28,000), and Walgreens ($28,000).[12][13] Many of these companies—such as UnitedHealth Group, AT&T, Duke Energy, Comcast/NBCUniversal, and Walgreens—have been noted for "publicly promot[ing themselves] as fighting for LGBTQ rights".[12]
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Many of Disney's subsidiaries have denounced the bill and the company's stance. A statement attributed to "the LGBTQIA+ employees of Pixar, and their allies" was released,[8] where it is stated that "beautiful stories, full of diverse characters, come back from Disney corporate reviews shaved down to crumbs of what they once were".[18][19] They further criticized Chapek's statement about the biggest impact Disney can have being through its inclusive content, by revealing that "nearly every moment of overtly gay affection is cut at Disney’s behest, regardless of when there is protest from both the creative teams and executive leadership at Pixar".[20][21]
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In response to the controversy surrounding Disney's involvment in the bill, the company reinstated a kiss between Uzo Aduba's character Alicia Hawthorne and another woman in Pixar's upcoming film Lightyear.[26]
(That last part indicates they're still cutting shit even now, a practice they will no doubt go back to once the current social media outrage blows over.)
They'll please the side using social media by pretending to care, while at the same time pleasing the more conservative side by not actually making any real changes. It's win-win for major corporations which feel zero shame at blatant dishonesty.
by Zentetsuken » Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:40 pm 
