Bob Iger On “Woke” Disney Criticism: “A Lot of People Don’t Even Understand Really What It Means”
Bob Iger On “Woke” Disney Criticism: “A Lot of People Don’t Even Understand Really What It Means”
The CEO also talked about succession planning in a wide-ranging CNBC interview.
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The whole "woke" buzzword thing is just dumb. It's just the latest bigotry dogwhistle / Fox "News" Pavlovian Response Training, where chuds are trained to react with visceral disgust at any word.
They made the chuds flip about WelFaRe QuEeN, HilLaRy, bEnGaZi, SoCiaLiSM and LIbRuLS and now WoKe. Fox could train these people to hate the word TURNIP.
I think there's a lot more nuance to it than that especially when we're talking about the products of a multi-billion dollar multinational corporation. There's definitely a lot of pandering happening where these companies slap a facade of inclusivity onto a product even when they don't really care either way whether marginalized people have a voice or not. These companies do it because of image and profit not because it makes sense or is the right thing to do.
There is certainly a giant crowd on the right that represent exactly what you're speaking about, but just because they're the bad guys doesn't make Bob Iger or Disney the good guys, nor does it mean there isn't some truth to what's being said.
There's a new show out from Zach Woods and Mike Judge called "In The Know" that does a great job of satirizing this very concept.
Calling wokeness a buzzword is like calling pornography a buzzword. People may struggle to define it, and definitions vary a lot, but everyone knows it when they see it.
That its hard to pin down is 1) why we’re even discussing this here, and 2) why the Republockans keep using it as a cudgel.