Walt Disney's Politics: Farthest Star to the Right?

Alternative title: Snowflake SJW DESTROYS Hundred Year Old Man
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SECTIONS
0:00 - Prologue
03:55 - Part 1: Who Was Walt Disney?
07:33 - Part 2: Walt's Politics
14:41 - Part 3: Walt's Beliefs
22:28 - Part 4: The Disney Animators Strike
28:20 - Part 5: Walt's Work
38:39 - Part 6: The Artifice of American Liberalism
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SOURCES
Books
- Brode, Douglas. From Walt to Woodstock: How Walt Disney Created the Counter-Culture (2004)
- Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyperreality (1986)
- Eisenstein, Sergei. Eisenstein on Disney (1986)
- Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (2006)
- Thomas, Bob. Walt Disney: An American Original (1976)
- Williams, Pat. How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004)
Movies
- Cinderella (1950) dir. Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, and Clyde Geronimi, Walt Disney Studios
- Fantasia (1940) dir. James Algar, Walt Disney Studios
- Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Studios
- Modern Times (1936) dir. Charlie Chaplin, United Artists
- Mean Girls (2004) dir. Mark Waters, Paramount Pictures
- Olympia (1938) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
- Pinocchio (1940) dir. Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Studios
- The Reluctant Dragon (1941) dir. Alfred Werker and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Studios
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) dir. Robert Mulligan, Universal Studios
- Saving Mr. Banks (2013) dir. John Lee Hancock, Walt Disney Studios
- Song of the South (1947) dir. Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney Studios
- Victory Through Air Power (1943) dir. James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, and Jack Kinney, Walt Disney Studios
Shorts
- Der Fuehrer's Face (1943) dir. Jack Kinney, Walt Disney Studios
- E.P.C.O.T. (1967) dir. Arthur J. Vitarelli, Walt Disney Studios
- The Three Little Pigs (1933) dir. Burt Gillett, Walt Disney Studios
TV Shows
- BoJack Horseman, "Angela" (2020) dir. James Bowman, Netflix
- Walt Disney's Disneyland, "A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris" (1956), Walt Disney Studios
- Seinfeld, "The Race" (1994) dir. Andy Ackerman, NBC
- Veep, "Veep" (2019) dir. David Mandel, HBO

[@UndercoverAkatsuki]

"is this your excuse that the subject was literally neurodivergent and a minor" I am sobbing i choked on my drink thank yhou

[@JallyJam]

"neurodivergent" is possibly one of the best leftist abortions of ideology to ever occur. Yes usually we try to help people who have depression since it leads to a unhealthy lifestyle, therapy is not conversion therapy.

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[@sassylittleprophet]

Oh hi, Caelan! 👋

[@ethanuyeda7352]

That last point about absolution hit hard; I wasn't expecting that. My friends and I have discussed Disney's impact on our early ideas about authority, so it was interesting to see that topic show up again here. Great video as always.

[@ilikecookies9796]

Great video, top notch presentation, and insightful analysis. The mean girls skit in particular had me rolling. 👍

[@DubiousConsumption]

Excellent work. Absolutely loved the callbacks to trains.

[@robertadler4354]

Such a great video! Amazing analysis, thank you so much. I remember reading Disney kicked out Tommy Kirke for being gay. It's all complex and complicated. Love love love your channel, thank you

[@KWilliamWhite57]

I know we discussed this, but I really think this is my favorite one you've done so far. I just love the drama!

[@anajulia-mi1bf]

Such an interesting video and a take I would’ve never considered! Great video :)

[@Furore2323]

I know it's just aesthetics, but your fit is fire.

[@basicwhitegirl3558]

Excellent video, as always!

[@Good_Praxis]

This was a very insightful take, redeeming a lot of the strong-bad I had in my mind about Walt. Now I feel betrayed by the loose portrayal of Bendy and the Ink Machine leaning on Walt's relationship with Disney. There are so many nuanced stories in his life to retell in a medium such as that

[@dstinnettmusic]

Walt Disney was a classical liberal proto-libertarian. Got it. This is an interesting story and I think something that needs to be more known. I notice Disney and Ford kind of get mind swapped in these stories. I think they both went for a similar “industrialist building the future” image and both dealt with unions, who even if for noble causes, were willing to slander their boss to get their way. At the end of the day, both were products of their position in life. Probably further right than the audience of videos like these, but I don’t feel these were evil men. I’m many ways they were doing their best, and came up short in pretty human ways.

[@toothlessdavid]

All the likes, all the shares! Your best video yet? Maybe after “Decolonizing Adventure”, but still excellent work!

[@shades88]

The aesthetics of this are brilliant

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[@JoePescisAngryCousin]

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[@lenawalters1866]

This is a small thing but I love your soft, correct, pronouncing of "Sergei". Cheers!

[@robertadler4354]

I think "Mary Poppins" is great and yeah the neoliberalism/social darwinism/capitalism ideology is a huge "blind spot" these days too

[@Furore2323]

Super good.

[@TheErikaGuy]

This was riveting

[@Tomartyr]

40:14 Average American: I'm not political, damn commies, I'm just waiting for Star Trek's utopia to become a thing.

[@JallyJam]

Average European: Im not American, you damn hillbilly, I'm just waiting till for our American defense subsidized societies get us out of the decline ever since America rebuilt us for another European war!

[@candide1065]

Average SJW-commie: I read 2 pages of Marx but i didn't understand anything so I read 2 pages of Noam Chomsky but I didn't understand anything so I watch youtube videos of a pseudo-latino zoomer who uses shallow buzzwords in order to legitimize brainwashing little kids about s*x and ideologies that killed more people than Mr. austrian painter.

[@flyingfoamtv2169]

interesting

[@willowwright8526]

here before it's viral lol

[@robertadler4354]

By the way Abigail Disney is very left wing (although very rich), maybe also in Illusion but at least she criticizes all the structural problems

[@freedfg6694]

Kind of a "judging long dead people by modern view point" but sure. It's kind of a moot point to judge Disney on standards such as representation or preconceived bias. We are talking about a person that was working in the 20s to the 60s. The fact that he hired a black dude in the mid fifties is something to see. We give credit to mister Rogers for inviting a black man on his show. Something that didn't happen until 1969. So why do we ignore things like that for Disney?

[@TheDeadmanstrolling]

Yeah, not a fan of holding people from ages ago to modern standards. Everyone should only be judged by their own times. An example in the opposite direction of how we treat Mr. Roger's inclusivity: Lovecraft is *particularly* racist because he was already considered racist by his peers in his own time

[@freedfg6694]

@@TheDeadmanstrolling exactly. The idea of gender or race quotas wasn't exactly a point of note in the 50s. Not saying they shouldn't be, but it's not fair to judge someone who was doing more than most people at the time because they don't conform to modern standards

[@afgor1088]

@@TheDeadmanstrolling did eichmann do anything wrong?

[@TheDeadmanstrolling]

@@afgor1088 yes, because genocide is evil across all generations and all cultures across time have looked down on it. Even the ones that have orchestrated their own! Also, being a lukewarm racist who was surprisingly open to hiring "undesirables" in the 50s is nowhere near comparable to orchestrating genocide of millions of people. It's not even comparable to a singular murder! There's a reason one of the first recorded laws in human history was to protect against murder, and every ancient culture has a myth or parable about the evils of taking life.

[@afgor1088]

@@TheDeadmanstrolling why not? I thought everything was relative and all that mattered was the standard of society at the time By the standards of German society at the time eichmann did nothing wrong You can't hold both things to be true, either there are some things wrong no matter what or the most brutal murderers in human history did nothing wrong. Pick one Goodbye

[@ZackPaslay]

first

[@marcellawaganer420]

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[@deathdome2572]

Oh no you can’t lecture other peoples children on sexuality without parental consent, how terrible. Honestly if that’s anti gay maybe that’s on the movement not the bill, it’s just a shame that something good has been twisted by corporate evils

[@indy7448]

I don't understand how not being able to talk about gender to 5-8 year old's in school is a threat to the LGBT community ?

[@dstinnettmusic]

Imagine a male teacher is talking about a school topic and wants to use a personal story as an example “My husband and I were shopping and saw….and it reminded me of this lesson” Has this teacher violated the law? What if a student asks about it? Can the teacher say “well you and your family are entitled to your opinion, but I am a gay and I am married to a man, now let’s get back to the lesson.”? It is really unclear and that is kind of the point. It is meant to stifle speech and bully people. It was written just so Desantis could lean back and smile like an asshole and go “did you even _read_ the bill? It says you can’t discuss sexuality and gender with young kids. Why would you want to do that, groomer?” And then you have to explain, but at that point he has already won. It is using a vulnerable minority as a political pawn in a purely negative way. He is scapegoating people who already face violence so he can run for President. It’s abhorrent and evil. It is unbecoming of anyone who calls themselves a Christian. It is an insult to my faith. I spit on his name. Ps. This should be your sign that it was never about free speech. It was about _your_ speech and forcing people to hear what _you_ want them to hear. Also, the insistence on making Robert Desantis’ literal penis a talking point makes me doubt your motives on this topic.

[@JallyJam]

@@dstinnettmusic The ambiguity of the law is the only fair criticism you can have of it but let's have some common sense here, the real purpose of the law is to stop curriculum based on woke identity politics which includes actively enforcing your ideology since if you aren't 100% supportive of the current thing your 100% enabling the negative counterpart. Nobody cares about someone talking about their husband, parents care about schools not telling them their kids have gender dysphoria and letting them transition in schools. Have you ever seen videos of teachers coming out to their kids? how is that normalizing and not attention-seeking? how is that not weird? "It is using a vulnerable minority as a political pawn in a purely negative way. He is scapegoating people who already face violence so he can run for President." You can't even see the irony in this statement, right? The left literally does this at every single chance it can thats why theirs a counter-reaction in republican strongholds, the teacher is there to teach math to kids, not morals or political theory. If thats now their job, then accept that they won't spoute your version of politics. also violence? dude grow up and get out of the identity political chamber of oppression, how about the 40% of kids who are bullied in general? for anything and everything? "This should be your sign that it was never about free speech. It was about your speech and forcing people to hear what you want them to hear." Isn't it you guys who stand loud and proud at the social destruction of people? awww I'm sorry you are now getting the same treatment but you are absolutely right, why would you let your enemy subvert your children and society to destroy you? do they believe that views should live in isolation from a person's private life? oh of course not so why would you? oh, they want you to so they can win the culture war. Cope, you may be able to leash Cali or new york but county by county we will win in our strongholds, you aren't the clergy, you are not a divine party and we should use every single trick your side uses and worse. The new right doesn't want to lose slowly, we want to win. Fear that, fear trump has made the right more diverse than any other candidate in a century. All you have is shame and fear as a governing policy, it's the future and one people in one nation is what we want to create while you cry about kids not being able to be given puberty blockers then try a guilt tactic "but this is hate speech! they are gonna kill themselves!".

[@indy7448]

@@dstinnettmusic Why does the teacher have to include that his husband and him where shopping ? it would make just as much sense to say "I was shopping and saw". I think the teacher should just say when presented with a question about gender or sexuality " that topic is inappropriate for class ask your parents" saying that the teacher should answer the question makes it seem like you've never been too school😂 I agree that the bill is going too stifle speech that's the point, since you gave a bunch of examples on why the bill may be vague Ill give you an example of why the bill is in place, lets say were in class of 6 year old's who are very impressionable and a teacher who is using her position of authority to to teach these kids her specific ideology that is not based on comprable scientific research. you say that the point of the bill is also to bully a minority but you didn't provide any evidence to that statement. also your ps doesn't make any sense? how was I using desantis penis as a talking point ?

[@flyingfoamtv2169]

why are people like you spamming in his comments?

[@indy7448]

@@flyingfoamtv2169 I didn't spam at all but if you go to 1:12 that part is the basis for my question.

[@illeagle9560]

Why do kindergarten-3rd graders need to know about sexual orientation?

[@Baby4HeadAutographer]

Why do 3rd graders need to be discussing sexuality? Am I missing something?

[@flyingfoamtv2169]

another one of you guys? how did you even get here?

[@Baby4HeadAutographer]

@@flyingfoamtv2169 I'm the only one of me, so your comment doesn't really make sense... Context maybe? And I came to this video the same way everyone else does. Why did you even bother typing that? I asked an honest, good-faith question. What was your motivation in your reply to my question? Looking for an "amirite or what guys?!" Jerk yourself off... don't crowsource it.

[@flyingfoamtv2169]

@@Baby4HeadAutographer well, i was refering to the oddly large group of people who are commentinh about the exact same thing ss you, over a single line in one video, there sre whole videos disgussing thst point, so why choose this one for the brigading?

[@Baby4HeadAutographer]

@@flyingfoamtv2169 so I'm going to introduce you to a couple of intriguing concepts. In every conversation there is a point where you walk in for the first time, that is this instance for me. And from what he said it's not just him that is calling foul, but an entire community. For that to be so I assumed that there was an explanation of why this community was upset about something that seems fairly non-controversial to me, who is on the left. Secondly there is a complex piece of software programming called an "algorithm", in this piece of software places videos in front of curious minded individuals who want to learn about a vast amount of atypical information. Again, that is me.

[@flyingfoamtv2169]

@@Baby4HeadAutographer im sorry you found the wrong video.🤣 but id i found something i did not like in a random video that showed up in my feed, i would never decide to comment on it repeatedly,

[@anajulia-mi1bf]

Also lol I agree trains are amazing (&the first step to communism) ❣️🚇

[@JallyJam]

Yet you are losing, again, not even in previous strong holds of communism do they support such halrious beliefs. Maybe the old reds and the new right can unite over this.

[@candide1065]

Holy fck the cringe

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