Michael Ejercito <MEjercit@HotMail.com> wrote in
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> https://ethicsalarms.com/2023/07/15/ethics-verdict-disney-is-officially
> -incompetent/
>
> Ethics Verdict: Disney Is Officially Incompetent
> JULY 15, 2023 / JACK MARSHALL
>
>
> Yes, those are “the Seven Dwarfs” of “Snow White and” fame,
> according to our national steward of childhood fantasy and iconic
> fables, the Disney Corporation. That photo is smoking gun evidence of
> insanity, a production shot from the upcoming live action version of
> the 1937 movie that made Walt Disney’s artistic vision a cultural
> force, now retitled “Snow White.” Of course Snow White is going to
> be Snow Of Color, as the actress playing the German fairy tale
> princess is Latina Rachel Zegler, who has already embraced the
> company’s current “screw tradition, common sense and legacy”
> attitude by tweeting, “Yes I am Snow White; no, I am not bleaching
> my skin for the role.”
>
> You do recall why Snow White was called Snow White, right?
>
>
> This is the most throbbing evidence yet that Disney doesn’t know
> what the hell it is doing any more, or understand why it became an
> American cultural behemoth, or why it even exists. Churning out lame
> live-remakes of animated classics is, by itself, a symptom of creative
> bankruptcy, and allowing progressive fads and political correctness to
> dictate plots and artistic choices shows severe disorientation.
>
> The question Disney should be asking and used to ask is “What will
> make the most entertaining film while thrilling the largest number of
> kids?” not “What will make Peter Dinklage happy?” Yet that is
> exactly what Disney did, as discussed in this post last year. A dwarf
> actor of some note objected to casting dwarfs as dwarfs, (but not to
> casting dwarfs as non-dwarfs, which is crucial to his career), and
> that was all Disney needed to abandon the only aspect of “Snow White
> and the Seven Dwarfs” that made the story unique and memorable. As I
> wrote at the time, when Disney’s integrity crumbled and it babbled,
> “To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film,
> we are taking a different approach with these seven characters,”
>
> Is it a “stereotype” for dwarfs to be small, like Dinklage? Is it
> the term “dwarf” that he’s bitching about? The story is hundreds
> of years old: is Disney supposed to call it “Snow White and the
> Seven Little People”? It already has a movie in the vault called
> “Darby O’Gill and the Little People,” but those little people
> are leprechauns. In fact, at last report, Dinklage is going to star in
> the American comedy “O Lucky Day” playing a con-man who pretends
> to be a leprechaun. I assume he’ll be saying things like “Begosh
> and begorrah!” and “I see ye’ve come to steal me gold! Catch me
> if you can!” No stereotypes there! Or will Disney really cave, and
> call the thing “Snow White and the Seven Variably-Sized Miners”?
>
> I thought I was joking, but there they are in the flesh: the Seven
> Variably-Sized Miners.
>
> Look, I don’t care about what kind of hash Disney makes out of
> “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” I get why the original film was
> groundbreaking, but I wasn’t particularly fond of it as a kid, as it
> seemed awfully girly to me, and I wouldn’t pay money to see a
> faithful live action version of the movie anyway. I do care that
> Disney, which has played a major and overwhelmingly positive role in
> U.S. art and culture, has been taken over by ideologically-driven
> dolts who are abusing the company’s influence and seeding societal
> division without any compensating benefits to the nation, unless woke
> indoctrination is considered a benefit.
>
> How’s this for a startling concept? If you decide that it’s
> politically incorrect and not sufficiently diverse to cast a fairy
> tale character whose skin was white as snow and named Snow White with
> a white actress, and insensitive to cast seven dwarfs (aka dwarves,
> little people..) as the “Seven Dwarfs,” then don’t remake
> “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”! Come up with something new and
> original.
>
> Too radical?
>
> If some disability activists had objected to showing a mermaid as a
> half-fish girl who would just flop around on land, or objected to
> Ariel’s desire to have legs as “ableist,” would Disney’s
> current gang of idiots gone ahead and made their live-action “The
> Little Mermaid” without a mermaid character? It probably would have.
> These are foolish, radical, lazy and incompetent people. It is
> irresponsible to entrust one’s children to the influence of foolish,
> radical, lazy and incompetent people, and reckless to trust them with
> the nation’s culture.

Snow White is a story. The Snow White remake is simply a lie. That's all
Disney represents these days, packs of liars and fools.