Let it go, State Department. …Yes, I am a bad man for that.

Missed this when it came out: apparently a State Department guy (Admiral Robert Papp, the Special Envoy to the Arctic*) asked a chief minion over at Disney to go do some global warming agitprop.  The Mouth of Mouse’s response? “The Disney exec had a very “perplexed” reaction and apparently told Papp they’re in the business of “optimism and happy endings.””

Translation: …dude.  Do some demographic research**. We’re not going to tick off the people who are still committed to producing replacements of our target audience.  Notice how Disney largely*** stays out of this stuff? That’s precisely why. They like money. They don’t much like getting in grudge matches with the parents of said target audience.

Via @NoahCRothman.

Moe Lane

*I laughed at first, too, but that actually makes sense. There’s at least a half-dozen countries with legitimate or at least vehement claims to Arctic territory, and there are resources up there. Makes sense to have one person to coordinate diplomatic responses to situations.

**I imagine that the people who do do demographic and sociological research for Disney enjoy very well-compensated jobs that they may never, ever speak of to outsiders.

***Oh, I’m sure that the Mouse has done something to tick off social conservatives****, at one point or another. But they largely keep their head down and don’t do anything too overt.

****Regular conservatives get twitchy with the Mouse over Disney’s unique view on copyright. But that’s just business on Disney’s part.

13 thoughts on “Let it go, State Department. …Yes, I am a bad man for that.”

  1. Perhaps they could do an American version of Britain’s “No Pressure” videos?
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1HBOvXZO-g
     
    Regular conservatives get twitchy with the Mouse over Disney’s unique view on copyright. But that’s just business on Disney’s part.
     
    Here “just business” has the same meaning as in The Godfather …

  2. Well, they do advocate for gay-rights positions. And their animators used to have a habit of slipping sexual easter eggs into movies.
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    But for the most part, they’re very aware of the line where doing so would cost them business.

  4. Actually Disney does a fair bit of environmental activism at Epcot and Animal Kingdom parks. With Avatarland coming into Animal Kingdom, that place will be overflowing with nonsense.

    1. .. which is probably why Admiral Asterix thought this’d be a natural fit.
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      Mew
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      p.s. I’d been about to blame Disney for “Ferngully” and “Land Before Time” ..

    2. True, but you expect that at anything involving animal exhibits these days. What the State Department guy wanted was the deep ecology equivalent of the WWII propaganda cartoons.

    3. Yes we were at Epcot in October. Some of the stuff was really annoying. We watch the Disney channel and they do a fair amount of pushing green and sustainability on their channels. They also push healthy eating and exercise. Of course before I wouldn’t blink , but with the recent introductions of Feds into my kids diets (school lunches), everything feels like a conspiracy.

      1. Parents will watch the movies with their children, but for the most part will turn on the Disney channel on Saturday morning and let their kids watch while they do work around that house ( that’s what my parents did atleast when I was a child)

        Disney can afford to be annoying on their tv shows, they can’t for the most part do so on their movies, where they make most of their money.

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