Loved this show. Went through it in two days.

I explicitly referred to Lewis’s own comments as to what the show was about.

“I lack reading comprehension skills” - you

Yes because the educated should all think the same way. Fascistic.

Lewis’s own comments pitching the show make clear this is left-wing propaganda

If you are looking at TV for a “message” you are probably a loser. Fact.

Welcome to the NFL, rookie

Who is “We"?

And it is telling that where you draw the line at what prepubescent children might be exposed to is nothing less than outright hardcore pornography. Presumably things below that are fine in your mind. For prepubescent children. Sickening. You can talk about defending gay people all you like. This is still sickening and most gay people would, i am certain, agree.

Very convenient and disingenuous that specifically promoting a self-described agenda (not my phrase!) apparently does not = exposing adult sexual themes to prepubescent children. What? Hardly convincing and deeply concerning. You are convincing no-one.

You mention reason and logic. Why not just accept that adult themes are for adults and ought not to be specifically targeted at prepubescent children? If people are keen to reach prepubescent children with an adult sexual “agenda”, that is manipulative and predatory.

I’m not the one who used the word “agenda“. I’m quoting it. I’m still waiting for you to answer my question about you.

OK. Thanks. So to be clear, in your view the heroes here are the people pushing adult sexual themes onto prepubescent children?

I’m quoting the words of Disney’s own employees who repeatedly described using characters to push sexual themes as part of an “agenda”. I’m clearly not making this up, the intent is clear and the wording their own - I am merely quoting. Over to you.

I answered your question as best I could. Now let me pose one to you. Hopefully you will answer in kind. Let’s follow your own points to their “logical conclusion” this time. Why are you keen to expose prepubescent children to adult sexual themes?

Well see the words of Latoya Raveneu. Her words, not mine. This entails deliberately packing Disney content aimed at prepubescent children with a sexual agenda. Adults keen to expose prepubescent children to sexual material are inherently suspicious. Many of them will be predators.

Or not

You mean the “trash people” who do not want sexual “agendas” (the gleeful word if one Disney insider) pushed onto prepubescent children? Those “bigots”?

You smear people as bigots. These people do not want a sexual “agenda” (the words of one gleeful Disney insider) pushed on prepubescent children. So those people are the problem? People who do not want sexual “agendas” consciously pushed on prepubescent children are the problem. Those pushing sexual content onto prepubescent children are doing (your words from above) “the right thing”. That’s not suspicious at all!

Another fucking Andor article

The systematic mass murder and sterilisation carried out by the CCP against its Muslim population is classifiable as genoicude. To say “where is it?” is a sign of a non-existent moral compass. You are simply not worth speaking to.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/22/disney-needs-to-get-rid-of-more-than-its-ceo/

This kind of activism is extremely controversial and smearing everyone who disagrees as a bigot is ridiculously immature. For a major corporation that makes most of its money from families, it is verging on the moronic.

Disney is a political clusterfuck, for example https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/22/disney-needs-to-get-rid-of-more-than-its-ceo/

If they want us to take them seriously, they had better show consistency. And in terms of “evils” the two are not remotely comparable. You mentioned about “promoting” issues. Surely it is easy to see that lots of people, customers, vehemently disagree with the political stance of the employees, don’t consider it “the right thing”, in fact quite the opposite, and hence it is unwise for a company to engage in activism that attacks the beliefs of those people - particularly related to parenting and children.

Disney employees didn’t kick up a fuss when the company was partnering with an agency of the Chinese state currently engaged in genocide. I find their posturing about a policy issue in democratic Floria nauseatingly hypocritical. And anyway “the right thing” is a matter of debate.

Well the fact that Disney employees wanted the company to pick a fight with elected lawmakers in service of their enthusiasms underscores that this isn’t as simple as you imply.

Well it depends what is meant by ”‘inclusive“. If it means pushing a particular agenda/worldview that lands the company in public controversy and quite possibly alienates many parents, it’s probably an unwise idea.

Chapek did at least try to withdraw Disney from divisive political issues. That was very smart. The company exists to satisfy its consumers and make money, not act as a platform for the political enthusiasms/activism of its staff. Meanwhile some current issues, not least the unsatisfactory performance of Star Wars since 2012 and recently the over-saturation of Marvel content in order to populate the new streaming service, are decisions that date back to Iger, not Chapek. Overall Chapek was a definite failure - the Black Widow salary scandal - but he inherited a problematic situation from Iger.

I was joking. I don’t really find any entertainment “horrendously troubling”.