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Michael Ejercito <MEjercit@HotMail.com> wrote in news:u8uc8i$dpgm$1@dont-email.me:

https://ethicsalarms.com/2023/07/15/ethics-verdict-disney-is-officially -incompetent/

Ethics Verdict: Disney Is Officially Incompetent
JULY 15, 2023 / JACK MARSHALL

Yes, those are rCLthe Seven DwarfsrCY of rCLSnow White andrCY fame,
according to our national steward of childhood fantasy and iconic
fables, the Disney Corporation. That photo is smoking gun evidence of insanity, a production shot from the upcoming live action version of
the 1937 movie that made Walt DisneyrCOs artistic vision a cultural
force, now retitled rCLSnow White.rCY Of course Snow White is going to
be Snow Of Color, as the actress playing the German fairy tale
princess is Latina Rachel Zegler, who has already embraced the
companyrCOs current rCLscrew tradition, common sense and legacyrCY
attitude by tweeting, rCLYes I am Snow White; no, I am not bleaching
my skin for the role.rCY

You do recall why Snow White was called Snow White, right?

This is the most throbbing evidence yet that Disney doesnrCOt know
what the hell it is doing any more, or understand why it became an
American cultural behemoth, or why it even exists. Churning out lame live-remakes of animated classics is, by itself, a symptom of creative bankruptcy, and allowing progressive fads and political correctness to dictate plots and artistic choices shows severe disorientation.

The question Disney should be asking and used to ask is rCLWhat will
make the most entertaining film while thrilling the largest number of kids?rCY not rCLWhat will make Peter Dinklage happy?rCY Yet that is
exactly what Disney did, as discussed in this post last year. A dwarf
actor of some note objected to casting dwarfs as dwarfs, (but not to
casting dwarfs as non-dwarfs, which is crucial to his career), and
that was all Disney needed to abandon the only aspect of rCLSnow White
and the Seven DwarfsrCY that made the story unique and memorable. As I
wrote at the time, when DisneyrCOs integrity crumbled and it babbled,
rCLTo avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film,
we are taking a different approach with these seven characters,rCY

Is it a rCLstereotyperCY for dwarfs to be small, like Dinklage? Is it
the term rCLdwarfrCY that herCOs bitching about? The story is hundreds
of years old: is Disney supposed to call it rCLSnow White and the
Seven Little PeoplerCY? It already has a movie in the vault called
rCLDarby OrCOGill and the Little People,rCY but those little people
are leprechauns. In fact, at last report, Dinklage is going to star in
the American comedy rCLO Lucky DayrCY playing a con-man who pretends
to be a leprechaun. I assume herCOll be saying things like rCLBegosh
and begorrah!rCY and rCLI see yerCOve come to steal me gold! Catch me
if you can!rCY No stereotypes there! Or will Disney really cave, and
call the thing rCLSnow White and the Seven Variably-Sized MinersrCY?

I thought I was joking, but there they are in the flesh: the Seven Variably-Sized Miners.

Look, I donrCOt care about what kind of hash Disney makes out of
rCLSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs.rCY I get why the original film was groundbreaking, but I wasnrCOt particularly fond of it as a kid, as it
seemed awfully girly to me, and I wouldnrCOt pay money to see a
faithful live action version of the movie anyway. I do care that
Disney, which has played a major and overwhelmingly positive role in
U.S. art and culture, has been taken over by ideologically-driven
dolts who are abusing the companyrCOs influence and seeding societal
division without any compensating benefits to the nation, unless woke indoctrination is considered a benefit.

HowrCOs this for a startling concept? If you decide that itrCOs
politically incorrect and not sufficiently diverse to cast a fairy
tale character whose skin was white as snow and named Snow White with
a white actress, and insensitive to cast seven dwarfs (aka dwarves,
little people..) as the rCLSeven Dwarfs,rCY then donrCOt remake
rCLSnow White and the Seven DwarfsrCY! Come up with something new and original.

Too radical?

If some disability activists had objected to showing a mermaid as a half-fish girl who would just flop around on land, or objected to
ArielrCOs desire to have legs as rCLableist,rCY would DisneyrCOs
current gang of idiots gone ahead and made their live-action rCLThe
Little MermaidrCY without a mermaid character? It probably would have.
These are foolish, radical, lazy and incompetent people. It is
irresponsible to entrust onerCOs children to the influence of foolish, radical, lazy and incompetent people, and reckless to trust them with
the nationrCOs culture.

Snow White is a story. The Snow White remake is simply a lie. That's all Disney represents these days, packs of liars and fools.
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