JK Rowling wrote a whole book series about how bullying is a horrible and self-perpetuating cycle, and now spends most of her time bullying a marginalised group
This just came out and shows this theme. It is awesome Knights of Guinevere: pilot https://youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE
Superheros also just preach that you have to maintain the status quo, never tackle the root of the problem, just violently attack the symptoms and that only a small few special people can save you, so everybody else just has to get out of the way and cheer.
While this is a good narrative to make about Disney if we want to hate on them, it’s not true though.
The Disney movies for kids is almost all about not maintaining status quo and actually challenge it. Or being different than anyone else
Frozen and Moana are recent examples. Pirates of Caribbean for an older audience. There’s many more.
Disney kids movies aren’t about super heroes usually. But even Lion King is how you can’t escape adult responsibilities and have to continue the cycle.
You forgot the peasants cheering the birth of their new predator
That sounds like the villains’ motive in My Hero Academia. A good series about superheroes, and what it means to be a hero. And what it means for those who aren’t qualified to work as heroes but do, or try to do heroic things (the fourth season addresses this, as will the upcoming final season (it was in the manga, which is complete), and the Vigilantes spinoff directly covers it.
Now look at who’s running Nintendo (of America). Guy named Bowser. That will never not be funny. (Coincidentally, a guy who hacked one of their consoles and is now essentially a wage slave to them, forced to give up like half his paycheck to them, is also named Bowser.)
Disney and Nintendo are both widely loved companies that have done some very bad things for the world. Maybe the true villains. But, like anything and anyone else, it’s shades of grey, neither of them are completely diabolically evil.
neither of them are completely diabolically evil
You sure? I don’t see any redeeming qualities in Disney nor Nintendo.
Nintendo and Disney aren’t evil because they’re cooperations, not people. It’s the people who sit on top of Disney and Nintendo who are either diabolically evil or spineless cowards who want money and power but are too scared to use it for good. Either way, Nintendo and Disney “don’t serve the public interest”.
Y’all see the latest Captain America movie? The one where the whole moral was “maybe we can still appeal to their better nature?”
You still watching that crap?
Well, yeah, this is like saying Santa Claus isn’t real lol
Does Santa Clus support genocides?
Since Santa isn’t real, I would say the answer is a definitive, no.
Santa has an ethnicly homogenous slave workforce trapped in a secret location facing sub-zero work conditions and runs a global child surveillance system supporting an opaque punishment algorithm.
There is no way he’s a good guy.
Dumbledore is Santa Claus?
Both are old, bearded, and project a friendly, wise-grandfather image.
Both lead a closed community with strict hierarchies.
Both have elf slave labor.
Both run surveillance operations: Dumbledore has the portraits, Fawkes, the Marauder’s Map (by proxy), and Santa has the Naughty-or-Nice list.
Both maintain a mystique that disguises how much control they actually wield.
However, I still think Santa is more likely to be evil.
Roger Meyers, Sr., the gentle genius behind Itchy & Scratchy loved and cared about almost all the peoples of the world
Ok fanboy
It is any better.
It’s also not okay what DC did, but the transgressions are very different in scale.
Kimmel was faired for saying “MAGA is trying to make it look like the shooter wasn’t a MAGA activist”, while Felker-Martin got fired for saying “it’s a good thing Kirk can no longer take part in podcasts.”
I don’t think either of those is grounds for firing, but it’s not good to bring them to the same level.
