ABC got rid of Jimmy Kimmel and am just here shaking my head at cis white people.dearly beloved, Disney owns ABC.
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ABC got rid of Jimmy Kimmel and am just here shaking my head at cis white people.
dearly beloved,
Disney owns ABC. it also co-owns the Harry Potter franchise. after all the transphobic #violence JK Rowling unleashed and championed in the past few years,
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT.
#TRANSPHOBIA is a point of intersectional violence for #eugenics #misogyny #classism #racism #colonialism
it was never a question of if but when.
Disney *is* the paragon of fascist USA media.
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ABC got rid of Jimmy Kimmel and am just here shaking my head at cis white people.
dearly beloved,
Disney owns ABC. it also co-owns the Harry Potter franchise. after all the transphobic #violence JK Rowling unleashed and championed in the past few years,
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT.
#TRANSPHOBIA is a point of intersectional violence for #eugenics #misogyny #classism #racism #colonialism
it was never a question of if but when.
Disney *is* the paragon of fascist USA media.
And was from the beginning:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/walt-disney/walt-the-quasi-nazi-the-fascist-history-of-disneyBefore the US entered WWII, Walt and his personal lawyer are reported to have been regular attenders at meetings of the German American Bund (i.e. US Nazi party).
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And was from the beginning:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/walt-disney/walt-the-quasi-nazi-the-fascist-history-of-disneyBefore the US entered WWII, Walt and his personal lawyer are reported to have been regular attenders at meetings of the German American Bund (i.e. US Nazi party).
@EndemicEarthling @blogdiva
This profile of Disney as a quazi-Nazi is FALSE.
"The Walt Disney Family Museum acknowledges that ethnic stereotypes common to films of the 1930s were included in some early cartoons[y] but also points out that Disney donated regularly to Jewish charities and was named the 1955 "Man of the Year" by the B'nai B'rith chapter in Beverly Hills.[200][201] The organization itself found no evidence of antisemitism on Disney's part. The plaque read: "For exemplifying the best tenets of American citizenship and inter-group understanding and interpreting into action the ideals of B'nai B'rith."[176] Disney had numerous Jewish employees, many of whom were in influential positions.[202] None of Disney's employees – including animator Art Babbitt, who disliked Disney intensely – ever accused him of making antisemitic slurs or taunts.[194] Jewish story man Joe Grant, who worked closely with Disney throughout the 1930s and 1940s stated, "As far as I'm concerned, there was no evidence of antisemitism. I think the whole idea should be put to rest and buried deep. He was not antisemitic. Some of the most influential people at the studio were Jewish. It's much ado about nothing. I never once had a problem with him in that way."
~source: Wikipedia
Regardless of this source, & skeptics of Wikipedia, I don't see how he could be antisemitic, LET ALONE "been a regular attender at meetings of the German American Bund (i.e. US Nazi party)!!
I call bullshit on this.
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@EndemicEarthling @blogdiva
This profile of Disney as a quazi-Nazi is FALSE.
"The Walt Disney Family Museum acknowledges that ethnic stereotypes common to films of the 1930s were included in some early cartoons[y] but also points out that Disney donated regularly to Jewish charities and was named the 1955 "Man of the Year" by the B'nai B'rith chapter in Beverly Hills.[200][201] The organization itself found no evidence of antisemitism on Disney's part. The plaque read: "For exemplifying the best tenets of American citizenship and inter-group understanding and interpreting into action the ideals of B'nai B'rith."[176] Disney had numerous Jewish employees, many of whom were in influential positions.[202] None of Disney's employees – including animator Art Babbitt, who disliked Disney intensely – ever accused him of making antisemitic slurs or taunts.[194] Jewish story man Joe Grant, who worked closely with Disney throughout the 1930s and 1940s stated, "As far as I'm concerned, there was no evidence of antisemitism. I think the whole idea should be put to rest and buried deep. He was not antisemitic. Some of the most influential people at the studio were Jewish. It's much ado about nothing. I never once had a problem with him in that way."
~source: Wikipedia
Regardless of this source, & skeptics of Wikipedia, I don't see how he could be antisemitic, LET ALONE "been a regular attender at meetings of the German American Bund (i.e. US Nazi party)!!
I call bullshit on this.So, a decade after the horrors of WWII, Walt's bona fides are washed clean via donations?
Art Babbitt, cited as an authority in the Wiki you cut and paste, is the source of the claim about Walt's frequent attendance at the German American Bund.
He was the only figure in Hollywood to welcome Nazi propagandist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in late 1938, *after* Kristallnacht.
He was virulently anti-union, anti-communist (appearing at the McCarthy hearings as a friendly witness, making accusations against others in Hollywood), and his vision for EPCOT has more than a bit of corporations-as-government vibe.
Whether or not he personally felt or expressed racial/religious animus against Jewish people is neither here nor there when it comes to his sympathies for fascism. Fascism comes in more than one form: the current US version involves active support for Israel's genocidal violence in Gaza, for instance. So gaining an award from a pro-Zionist organisation is no proof of non-fascism. (Indeed, the current Israeli government includes members who are *self-described* fascists).
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ABC got rid of Jimmy Kimmel and am just here shaking my head at cis white people.
dearly beloved,
Disney owns ABC. it also co-owns the Harry Potter franchise. after all the transphobic #violence JK Rowling unleashed and championed in the past few years,
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT.
#TRANSPHOBIA is a point of intersectional violence for #eugenics #misogyny #classism #racism #colonialism
it was never a question of if but when.
Disney *is* the paragon of fascist USA media.
1. yup, i stand corrected. Disney does not have a claim to the Harry Potter franchise. NBC/Universal/Warner Brothers
2. the point of transphobia still stands; because it’s related to…
3. the fact that, as @haljor pointed out, they didn’t oppose the “Don’t Say Gay” law until it was politically expedient to claim they did
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60714063which leads me to Ron DeSantis: his beef with Disney wasn’t about “wokeness”… 🧵
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So, a decade after the horrors of WWII, Walt's bona fides are washed clean via donations?
Art Babbitt, cited as an authority in the Wiki you cut and paste, is the source of the claim about Walt's frequent attendance at the German American Bund.
He was the only figure in Hollywood to welcome Nazi propagandist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in late 1938, *after* Kristallnacht.
He was virulently anti-union, anti-communist (appearing at the McCarthy hearings as a friendly witness, making accusations against others in Hollywood), and his vision for EPCOT has more than a bit of corporations-as-government vibe.
Whether or not he personally felt or expressed racial/religious animus against Jewish people is neither here nor there when it comes to his sympathies for fascism. Fascism comes in more than one form: the current US version involves active support for Israel's genocidal violence in Gaza, for instance. So gaining an award from a pro-Zionist organisation is no proof of non-fascism. (Indeed, the current Israeli government includes members who are *self-described* fascists).
@EndemicEarthling @blogdiva
hmmm...so we have conflicting narratives that neither of us has in-person observation or knowledge of which is true..correct?
I call it a draw, because we both lose, in this century...
If you haven't already heard, ABC network execs removed Jimmy Kimmel's monologue tonight because of his Kirk content...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-kimmel.html
How's that for virulent Fascism, eh?
So while you and I debate the past Disney sins, we're sliding into FULL BLOWN 1940's NotSee lock down of our former United States constitutional government.
Feel better now? 🤨
I don't....
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1. yup, i stand corrected. Disney does not have a claim to the Harry Potter franchise. NBC/Universal/Warner Brothers
2. the point of transphobia still stands; because it’s related to…
3. the fact that, as @haljor pointed out, they didn’t oppose the “Don’t Say Gay” law until it was politically expedient to claim they did
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60714063which leads me to Ron DeSantis: his beef with Disney wasn’t about “wokeness”… 🧵
De Santis’ beef was that Disney w̶a̶s̶ is a de facto company town, created with a law to specifically free it of any local government while creating a closed-circle taxation arrangement for public works:
Reedy Creek Improvement Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_ActDe Santis got the legislature to change the law, not because he’s against company towns, but because he’s against the ones that won’t bow to his dictatorship. stupidly, it’s gonna cost Florida:
Disney v. DeSantis
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._DeSantis🧵…
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De Santis’ beef was that Disney w̶a̶s̶ is a de facto company town, created with a law to specifically free it of any local government while creating a closed-circle taxation arrangement for public works:
Reedy Creek Improvement Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_ActDe Santis got the legislature to change the law, not because he’s against company towns, but because he’s against the ones that won’t bow to his dictatorship. stupidly, it’s gonna cost Florida:
Disney v. DeSantis
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._DeSantis🧵…
the thing is, why would anybody write into law a company town run by a union-busting, McCarthy sympathizing rat king?
i answered my own question, didn’t i?
from the Mickey Mouse Extension Act:
Copyright Term Extension Act - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Actto it’s insatiable appetite for franchises & companies, Disney is beyond too big to fail. it’s too big to not be broken up.
this image is absolute bananas:
Chart: Everything That Disney Owns
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/chart-every-company-that-disney-owns-172130.html🧵…
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the thing is, why would anybody write into law a company town run by a union-busting, McCarthy sympathizing rat king?
i answered my own question, didn’t i?
from the Mickey Mouse Extension Act:
Copyright Term Extension Act - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Actto it’s insatiable appetite for franchises & companies, Disney is beyond too big to fail. it’s too big to not be broken up.
this image is absolute bananas:
Chart: Everything That Disney Owns
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/chart-every-company-that-disney-owns-172130.html🧵…
so am going to leave y’all with this thought: rarely agree with Matt Stoller, but we do on one particular thing:
The case for breaking up Disney
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/07/marvel-lucas-pixar-fox.htmlnot only are they running their own company town, they are the textbook case of regulatory capture: liberal-speak massaging the fascist capture of government and legislation by corporations.
Disney doesn’t just manufacture popular entertainment. by how it wields its power, it’s the champion of American corporatist fascism./🧵
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so am going to leave y’all with this thought: rarely agree with Matt Stoller, but we do on one particular thing:
The case for breaking up Disney
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/07/marvel-lucas-pixar-fox.htmlnot only are they running their own company town, they are the textbook case of regulatory capture: liberal-speak massaging the fascist capture of government and legislation by corporations.
Disney doesn’t just manufacture popular entertainment. by how it wields its power, it’s the champion of American corporatist fascism./🧵
PS¹: here’s @mcc with the receipts on Disney’s #transphobia.
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115223417028506223
BTW
since transgenderism is the new communism for the fascistocracy, did y’all know Walt Disney slandered some of his union organizing workers to McCarthy’s HUAC (aka House Un-American Activities Committee) in 1947?
of course you did!
❝ The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (24 October 1947) ❞
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PS¹: here’s @mcc with the receipts on Disney’s #transphobia.
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115223417028506223
BTW
since transgenderism is the new communism for the fascistocracy, did y’all know Walt Disney slandered some of his union organizing workers to McCarthy’s HUAC (aka House Un-American Activities Committee) in 1947?
of course you did!
❝ The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (24 October 1947) ❞
PS²
Roy Disney was the brains behind the Walt Disney brand. the famous 1941 cartoonists strike happened because of his rabid hatred of labor unions:
❝ Whistle while you strike: The great Disney walkout of 1941
https://www.avclub.com/the-great-disney-strike-of-1941-1850623261his grand-daughter, Abigail Disney, has described him and her uncle Walt, in no uncertain terms, as fascists: https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/abigail-disney-calls-great-uncle-walt-disney-a-fascist/
yet NOT as nazis: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/13/disney-grandfather-spinning-in-grave-nazi-display/70319122007/
this is an incredibly important nuance to understand American corporatist fascism.
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PS²
Roy Disney was the brains behind the Walt Disney brand. the famous 1941 cartoonists strike happened because of his rabid hatred of labor unions:
❝ Whistle while you strike: The great Disney walkout of 1941
https://www.avclub.com/the-great-disney-strike-of-1941-1850623261his grand-daughter, Abigail Disney, has described him and her uncle Walt, in no uncertain terms, as fascists: https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/abigail-disney-calls-great-uncle-walt-disney-a-fascist/
yet NOT as nazis: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/13/disney-grandfather-spinning-in-grave-nazi-display/70319122007/
this is an incredibly important nuance to understand American corporatist fascism.
PS³:
and @paul reminds me that Disney’s #sports broadcasting monopoly would grow bigger if they bought #FuboTV
https://deadline.com/2025/07/fubo-disney-hulu-live-tv-merger-close-moved-up-1236472062/
that’s why Senator Elizabeth “we could have had 8 years of her as #POTUS but fucking corporatist democrats rammed through a geriatric corporatist fascist-bootlicking genocide-enabling quisling” Warren has activated her antitrust lasers against Disney:
just for the sports alone ―including the betting―, Disney needs to be imploded.
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PS³:
and @paul reminds me that Disney’s #sports broadcasting monopoly would grow bigger if they bought #FuboTV
https://deadline.com/2025/07/fubo-disney-hulu-live-tv-merger-close-moved-up-1236472062/
that’s why Senator Elizabeth “we could have had 8 years of her as #POTUS but fucking corporatist democrats rammed through a geriatric corporatist fascist-bootlicking genocide-enabling quisling” Warren has activated her antitrust lasers against Disney:
just for the sports alone ―including the betting―, Disney needs to be imploded.
PS⁴ and last thing about #Disney… for now:
they make hand-over-fist money with #ESPN. you wanna boycott them? boycott ESPN ―including NBA.com and MLB.com, of which they also get a slice.
y’all know how much i like my sports; but they know the last thing people will give up is their live #sports entertainment.
wanna go hard? boycott ESPN along with Disney and #ABC.
