01-04-2025, 05:37 AM
https://www.resetera.com/threads/politics-is-bad-for-business-why-disneys-bob-iger-is-trying-to-avoid-hot-buttons.1073334/page-3#post-133799721
BlackGoku03 wrote:The diversity from Disney and other large corpos is a progressive facade. The number one goal for these studios are profit. In some or most cases, having a diverse cast can lead to more profit. But even if it doesn't, studios like Disney knows they can rely on an army of defenders to focus on combating the anti-DEI/racist/misogynistic chuds. Doing that distracts from their dirty business practices and quality of work.
Hollywood will never care about marginalized folks until it comes down to protecting their pockets. And one thing they are very good at is obfuscating predatory business practices. They do this by having identity politics as a scapegoat. They're able to get people to argue about the wokeness or argue with the anti-woke crowd and Hollywood wins every time. Every time. It takes nothing for these studios to get people to hold up their diverse projects as the next best thing for our culture, ignoring the smaller independent film projects that are diverse because they want to be.
We all know the chuds are racist and should be called out. But that shouldn't be used as a flame shield from criticism AND it shouldn't be the dominant conversation surrounding a piece of media. Projects with a diverse cast that score low with audiences are bad because they're bad… not because they're diverse.