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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 11 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

What if I am offended by Christian characters, something wildly inappropriate for young impressionable minds?

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 2 points 6 minutes ago

Any way the wind blows...

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

The State Religion, I guess.

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 hour ago

Spineless? They're rainbow capitalists through and through. Fuck them.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

it was only a matter of time. Ms Marvel had openly Muslim characters and Turning Red had Buddhists.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 minutes ago (1 children)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Chronicles of Narnia

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

Crazy how they just gave up on the Narnia series. You'd think the original YA novel series would have been easy to punch up and deliver as AAA Cinema slop. Instead the whole thing fell apart inside three films (the first two of which were fairly well received, and riding tight on the LotR blockbuster adaptation, to boot).

I guess it was just too many characters, too much technical expertise, and too much hard work. Far easier to release a bunch of Sound of Freedom tier psycho-sexual thrillers. Something you can film with a handy cam, a fist full of confused child actors, and a dime bag of columbian white to get Jim Caviezel zooted out of his gord.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 65 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Religion or LGBT is a false dichotomy and shit like this just fuels division.

Fuck you Disney

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Priesthood was a religious answer for gay men historically, before more modern sects that are openly accepting. The modern non-denominational Christian churches are just cancer.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 hours ago

Yup. Disney doesn't stand for anything. They just pander to wherever they think the money is.

[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Really hope Jesus makes his comeback via an appearance on RuPaul. The bible does say it will be unexpected.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

The stories in the bible happened long ago. There arent any prophecies reaching into our age.

[–] Potatar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

(Actual inquiry, I don't know): Really? There is no rupture or some sort of apocalyse in the new testament?

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Nah, the thing that Christians claim is the antichrist was the description of Nero.

[–] dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

As someone that doesn't belive in the bible, the whole antichrist being nero thing doesn't add up. Nero reigned from 54 AD to 68 AD while the book of revelation, the one with the antichrist prophecies and that was published in 95 AD. I've heard the explanation that it was code, but why would they have to have code for someone that died 40 years before they wrote the code?

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The word antichrist isnt meantioned in the bible, only John does mention it.

[–] dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The gnostic nag hamadi also mentions the antichrist and that was written at least the 2nd century. Interestingly they say the antichrist will have a female likeness which makes sense if you entertain it because if the antichrist is meant to be the complete opposite of christ, why wouldn't they identify as female?

[–] binary45@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I feel that Mango Mussolini is very Nero-like… so does that count for anything?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Rainbow capitalism, I've looked into LGBTq+ forums, subs it hurts the community and movements more than it helps them

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago

See, I actually agree with a lot of people who say they hate "Woke Things"

Because 7 out of 10 times, they're just mad at Rainbow Capitalism trying and failing to pander to "t3h gays", but for some reason believe that "t3h gays" asked for it, when in reality we did not.... the other 3 times nothing's wrong and "Woke" is just code for "There was a black guy who did something outside of be comic relief, but if I said that aloud people would call me racist... Which I am"

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

This is the first openly Christian character to feature in a Disney film since 2007's Bridge to Terabithia.

So it's not really the first then, is it?

An exclusive poll for Newsweek conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies in July found that 34 percent of viewers disapproved of Disney's attempt to add more LGBTQ+ topics to its content.

This I never understand. If Disney is a for profit company, why would they not listen to their majority? Aren't they leaving money on the table like this? "Well, because of Trump." Yeah but how does that matter, specifically? (The article does not go in to detail about that) Is Trump going to compensate them for it??

This article isn't very well written. Many such cases, sadly.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Isn't Captain America Christian too? Like, he openly says there's only one God, he goes to church etc.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It could be seen as a product of his time (the 1940s).

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Agent Coulson says something like that too, I believe

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Note your comment states 34 percent disagree, but didn't state how many didn't care one way or the other, or rate the relative likelihood of spending money or refusing to based on the stance.

The snowflake conservatives may be more likely to get offended and boycott. It may be that 50 percent didn't care either way, so the trade off becomes 34 versus 16 percent. I suppose from another comment it seems like their poll returned approximately 1/3rd disliked, 1/3rd wanted, and 1/3rd didn't care. So they can probably have their cake and eat it too by waffling a bit on the issue to have both sides buying up their preferred content to "prove" to Disney the right way to go, even if they boycott the current "wrong" mindset, they may want to spend on their favored content to steer things. But those thirds still don't reflect the nuance of how much they like/dislike to know if liking LGBT inclusion is a "good on them, even though I'm not that personally invested" or more "I will not give them a dime if they don't have inclusion".

Of course they may also be concerned about their place in a potential authoritarian state and aligning themselves is a way to avoid being a target. If after all of the doom and gloom turn out to be wrong and progressives come back in a few years, then they just have to have their logo be rainbow colored for a bit and have a few progressive characters and all will be forgiven.

[–] DougHolland@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

It's Newsweek.

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[–] Hellsfire29@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I hope this means that they have canceled the Snow White movie.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Nah, they just made her whiter and the dwarves a white supremacist survivalist militia.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Disus Christ enters chat - because Disney and Jesus are now brothers.

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