True Evil: Disney Strikes Again

August 16, 2008 3:00 pm     Posted in Reality  mapofrussia g+ page

capt4b5df75afcfd45b695918f0d070004f2disneyland_protest_cacd106.jpgThanks to satirical cartoons and recorded history, it’s pretty common knowledge that Walt Disney was a nut bag. Besides being obsessed with cryogenically freezing his own head, the guy was an anti-Semite and hired Nazi rocket scientists to design his rides.


By Mapofrussia

Then there’s the racism and sexism in all of the cartoons his company has produced.

But I guess we’d all thought, with the advent of the first ever black female lead in a Disney cartoon, that the company had turned a new, desperate leaf and was actually interested in being a culturally aware organization rather then a profit-hungry global conglomerate steeped in Nazi tradition (Did you know?: Pirates of the Caribbean is powered by the OCCULT!).

We thought wrong. Looks like theres’ a huge labor dispute going on right now between Disney and a few thousand hotel employees, which was brought to a head today when protesters marched on the California Disney locations, dressed (hilariously) as Disney characters.

Bewildered tourists in Disney T-shirts and caps, some pushing strollers, filed past the commotion and gawked at the costumed picketers getting hauled away. The protest shut down a major thoroughfare outside Disneyland and California Adventure for nearly an hour.

“It’s changing my opinion of Disneyland,” said tourist Amanda Kosato, who was visiting from north of Melbourne, Australia. “Taking away entitlements stinks.”

The dispute involves about 2,300 maids, bell hops, cooks and dishwashers at three Disney-owned hotels: the Paradise Pier, the Grand Californian and the Disneyland Hotel.

The workers’ contract expired in February and their union says Disney’s latest proposal makes health care unaffordable for hundreds of employees and creates an unfair two-tier wage system. The union also says Disney wants to create a new category of part-time employees who would receive greatly reduced benefits. (YahooNews)

Companies do this sh*t all the time. Actually, the security firm that my college (WOO LIBERAL COLLEGE REFUSING TO SUPPORT WORKERS BECAUSE IT’S JUST A PROFIT MACHINE) uses to supply guards for class buildings and dorms did this to their employees when their union contracts ran out and totally HOSED them with removal of daycare options and lower wages. Then there is the whole Congress Hotel debacle that’s been going on for five years here in Chicago…

Looks like lots of big companies enjoy screwing the little man.

Kudos Disney, spread that love.

6 Comments on "True Evil: Disney Strikes Again"

  1. Victoria W - Bingham says:
    Sun, 17th Aug 20085:21 pm 

    Love it, you're absolutely right. Disney as a company is a far cry from their fuzzy image.

    I agree, the racism and sexism in their cartoons is awe-inducing. Its all warm and fuzzy watching Ariel when you're five, but then you grow up and realize how backwards all of their cartoons are- the helpless, stereotyped female searching for her prince to make her life complete. Please.

  2. Lilly says:
    Sun, 17th Aug 20087:32 pm 

    Oh please, Disney cartoons aren't half as bad, and damaging as some of the crap out there. Their movies are works of art, and frankly exactly what every little girl (and boy) wants to watch. The few messed up things don't even equate to the amounts of garbage kids watch daily now a days.

  3. Victoria W - Bingham says:
    Tue, 19th Aug 20088:27 am 

    Really? Disney movies are 'exactly what every little girl and boy wants to watch'? How about what their empowered, enlightened mothers want them to watch? How about films with strong female role models, whose sole aspiration isn't finding prince charming? What about more diverse and less bigoted characters? What about a lead female that doesn't need to be rescued by a strong, aggressive male?

  4. Olua - Washington Co says:
    Tue, 19th Aug 20088:58 am 

    I think all you guys are right. Disney is NOT the pink fairy fuzzy happy times image that they put out on the market (which parents are more often than not quick to gobble up). They have put out some movies that have implications that are really kind of horrible (The Little Mermaid with its blatant segregation and racism (speciesism?), or Beauty and the Beast with the abusive relationship).

    But some of the stuff kids are watching now is just atrocious. I've been watching TV with my little cousins over the past few weeks, and it's really mindboggling. I'm not saying that all the Nicktoons I grew up on (I love you, Ren and Stimpy!) were wonderful enlightening educational quality children's programing.

    But as a kid, when I watched WHATEVER I was watching, my mom watched it with me. We would talk about the movie or show and giggle and laugh and cry. And when it was done, we'd talk about it some more. I KNEW this stuff was fiction, I KNEW that wasn't how the real world worked, because my mother told me. Heck, I still have difficulty holding up my suspension of disbelief NOW, at twenty years of age.

    I'm not saying that Disney doesn't have a lot of work to do. But you can't just dump a kid infront of a movie and leave them. Maybe parents need to do a little work of their own.

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  5. What says:
    Sat, 23rd Aug 20088:16 pm 

    Disney is far better than the incest promoting Ben 10 that is all the rage and on TV after school. Nickelodeon isn't much better either. People forget that.

  6. abbay says:
    Tue, 14th May 20136:10 pm 

    old article, but still wanted to give my opinion, Disney makes thousands of children (and in fact not only childrens) happy. that s all i see, the joy it brings to theme, i hate it when people critisise dead people , they arent there anymore to defend themselfs, beside everything should be seen in its timeframe, the past wasnt the same as the présent is now. i ve dreamt all my life to work for that compagny and i hope i wille. i got my whole childhood in Disney , it learned me that every dream cab come truelle if you try. i see nothing wrong with it

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