that old jam by Revolting Cocks just popped in my head....
Those chanting people that you mention, they are the same people who boast about being rational and insist on trusting science, but, at the same time, call Dylan Mulvaney and Lia Thomas a 'woman', or can't define a 'woman' because they are 'not biologists', yet they boast about their Harvard education. It is insanity.
I think you've mischaracterized this to some degree. Christmas is one of two religious holidays celebrated in December. The other is Chanukah. What Christians oppose is removing the core reason for their holiday. I know no one who would oppose "Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah!" Advertisers (and the militantly anti-Judeo-Christian) don't want to do that because they want to secularize everything. If you aren't Christian, why are you offended by the phrase "Merry Christmas?"
Based on the video from the clueless Marketing VP that conceived of the ad campaign in question, she has no idea what their customer demographic is and admitted she was inserting her own beliefs into corporate marketing. She should own the negative response to her tone-deaf ideas.
Not everyone thinks that normalizing extreme narcissistic and mental health problems (there aren't 97 genders) is good for anyone. In fact, it seems like a lot of A-B InBev customers responded negatively. The corporation can explain to their shareholders how they screwed up.
It certainly isn't about anything Puritanical. Straw man again?
No, they were engaged in capitalism 5+ years ago. Get woke, go broke. And the CEO's ridiculous statement and the obvious pandering fake patriotic ad change nothing. In fact, they just made it worse because everyone can smell the BS.
Didn't Christians basically steal the Christmas story from the Pagans to try to be more inclusive or something like that?
I think it was around 500 AD that the Catholic church, in its never ending lust for power, decided to usurp the Pagan festival and decide that Christ was born in December (he wasn't).
Yes, the time of year was changed to be near the Winter Solstice and I believe the tree and yule log were incorporated to assist in converting pagans. Doesn't Easter also coincide with the Vernal Equinox and it's pagan festival?
I don't think so. Never thought about it. Just loosely remembered that from a bible study .
It would seem like Disney no longer cares about getting a large profit out of movies; they seem to constantly flop in theaters. I assume this "Snow Latinx" movie will be no exception. So, if profit is not the main drive for Disney, one can only assume that indoctrinating the new generations is their main objective. Perhaps they are getting extra money elsewhere in order to do exactly what they are doing.I've been asked to define "woke" and it seems to be a constantly shifting target... Kind of like the characterization of pornography made by Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart: "I know it when I see it" (1964). So I will only offer that the Disney remake of Snow White looks like they jumped the woke shark.
These are the new 7 "magical creatures".... and they don't have a problem with the name "Snow White"?
JR
PS; Bob Iger who came out of retirement to quickly right the Disney ship has just extended his un-retirement another two years... Disney has issues and may not be simpatico with their customers.
What is it exactly we are supposed to be rolling our eyes at here?
IMO the inmates are running the asylum... Bob Iger was supposed to return adult judgement to the process, but the new culture seems pretty deeply entrenched.
The hyperbolic appeal to diversity. Disney’s forthcoming live-action “Snow White” is under fire for being so “politically correct” that it’s reimagining the seven dwarfs as “magical creatures” of all sizes and genders.
I see: the diversity is the problem? If they decided to remake Snow White, it should have been done with a white woman in the lead, with 7 caucasian dwarfs, abiding by the strict medical height limit of 4'10"?
sorry if I am not being clear... I am not a fan of remakes at all, while modern Disney seems short on creativity (unlike the original Disney pioneered by Walt).
Yes. Better yet, don't remake anything and release something original, rather than ruining what we already have.
