Disney shareholders reject anti-DEI proposal

They ... rejected ... anti-DEI ... making them ... pro-DEI ... and anti-Trump? Am I getting that right? Sorry, there are just getting to be a lot of double-negatives these days it's hard to keep track.

Disney wants as many customers as possible and doesn’t care about temporary optics based on hard right politics. Don’t mistake them for the good guys. Megacorps that buy up everything in sight and use their ridiculous piles of money to exert influence over politics are the core of the problem.

Guess why copyright laws in the US kept adding decades and decades to copyright protection from the death of the creator. HINT: Megacorp money controlling laws may have been involved.

Conservatives have been worshipping on the altar of Shareholder Value since the 80's.

Guess what? These shareholders just told us all what they value. Think Conservatives will accept it?

Just 1% of shareholders voted to approve the proposal

1% of shareholders, or the holders of 1% of shares?

Fuck this shit, now I gotta be pro Disney too? I'd gotten so used to hating them. They grew on me a little back when they stood up against DeSantis in Florida too.

I miss the days when we could just love/hate corporations based on their business practices instead of culture war bullshit.

They saw what happened to Target stocks after the boycott and said fuck that.

Boycotts do work, keep it up

Probably because they realise that all the companies that ditched DEI have been doing significantly worse. Almost like it's something people want.

It does not even make sense for Disney to be anti-DEI if their target audience is the entire world!

No suprise there. A large portion of Disney's viewers are girls and minorities. You know, those dreaded DEI folk.

As someone who actually works on real stuff, it's insane to me that for some people, they go to work and have high-level conversations revolving around things such as this.

This is not about "DEI" it’s about marketing and demographic, in short economic interest, personally i wouldn’t throw them flowers.

"I guess you forgot whose really in charge," said Mickey.

Lots of media worried about upsetting the King of America with their reporting

Nah, fuck disney. Won't forget their "say no gay" policy. Also, a lot of their "woke" coded content is awful. It feels written by inexperienced writers. It's not genuine and comes across as pandering.

Like damn bro. Timon and Pumba were gay, social outcasts and raised a child together. That shit felt real. Not the stereotype gay l, but just normal... well "normal" characters.

The new stuff doesn't seem to have that. To the point that it feels as though they wanted their work to flop on it.

Kinda has that vibe Sandy from Spongebob had. At first, she was just a normal whacky character. Then Nickelodeon wanted more girl representation and Sandy became pretty much flawless. She wasn't the butt of the joke anymore, while the other characters stayed that way. It made her seem less part of the gang. Unequal to the rest. She became unfun.

So many of the female characters seem flawless and yet unlikable. From star wars series, to the new disney movies. Where is our Katara from Avatar? Where is our Valerie from Danny Phantom? Where are the characters with character?

I am SO confused.

Disney is still a fraud and a fake. The Disney magic.

So Disney hasn't learned a damn thing. Got it.