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Is Disney Evil?
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 I was asked, regarding my statement in the Voting With Your Dollar article, to put my money where my mouth was regarding my whole Disney = Evil theory. I had said that you could do a Google search for Disney and Evil, and come up with about a half a million results. Which is true, but it is hard to sort out the good stuff. So I compiled the results of my own search below, and have provided some links to websites that talk about why Disney is Evil.One word: Lemmings. |
| Snopes on Disney: Snopes goes to great lengths to debunk common urban legends, as well as confirm true ones. Check out the Lemmings article under Disney Films. In short, Disney filmmakers forced lemming off of a cliff and filmed it. This movie is the source of the common misconception that lemmings commit suicide when their numbers grow too large. Another good read is the bit about how Disney made a children's day care center remove their paintings of Disney characters, which I'm sure impressed the children immensely. Read all of Snopes' Disney stuff before the rest of these links, because obviously some of the following writers haven't. Anomalies Unlimited on Disney - Perhaps one of the premier anti-Disney sites out there. Lots of articles. Review of The Mouse That Roared: What Disney Teaches - A review that pretty well summarizes a book that critiques Disney's handling of the edutainment of our children. I personally don't feel that Disney is bent on world domination - simply on making lots and lots of cash, but that's what corporations are good at. Christian Courier's Review of Disney: A Mouse Betrayed - A review written from a Christian perspective, which is interesting. A choice quote: "It has been known for a good while, for example, that Disney caters to the homosexual community." It also mentions Disney's complacency with pedophiles, and obstruction of homicide investigations. I include this link because it seems that Christians in particular seem to have an overwhelming affinity for Disney, despite some of it's seemingly anti-Christian views. I just thought Disney was ghey, not gay. Disney owns some not-so-family-friendly companies - Specifically: Touchstone, Miramax, ABC, E!, ESPN, etc. I leave it to the reader to find some movies or TV shows made by these companies that you wouldn't want your kids to watch. They also own a huge number of TV and Radio stations, so there's a good chance you get to hear or see more of their commercials than you'd probably like. Especially if you don't want to see any. The Reedy Creek Improvement District - Disney also saves millions of dollars in taxes every year because it is both a 'local government', called the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID), and a company. This allows Disney to: issue bonds; tax itself to pay for them; claim some of these expenses as local taxes; then deduct those taxes from its corporate federal income tax. But that's not all, of course. Man, I wish I was a government. That would be so cool. The National Labor Committee thinks that Disney is a humans right violator because they don't pay their foreign employees enough to live on. How silly is that? Human Rights? For non-Americans? Pish posh! der Fuehrer's Face - A Donald Duck cartoon that features Hitler... No, really. Okay, it's a anti-Nazi propaganda piece, and that's good, sure, but Hitler in a children's cartoon? Do we need that? Oh, here's the song that plays from the animation (halfway down the page, first link - you'll have to unzip it). Would you like your kid to sing this song?: When der Fuehrer says, "We ist der master race," We HEIL! HEIL! Right in der Fuehrer's face! Won't somone please think of the children? My personal observations are that Disney distorts reality for easy consumption. "Great," you might say, "their stuff is meant for children! Children shouldn't be subjected to the horror that is reality." Granted, there are things that kid's minds just aren't ready for. That doesn't mean that you distort the truth and rewrite history. It's okay to tell most of the truth, and leave out the horrible stuff for when kids can handle it, but to actually change facts - to lie, as in the case with Pocahontas, is not okay. Nor is it conscionable to partner with McDonalds to make kids fat, and equip them with cartoon shaped choking hazards. Plus, Disney stuff is really annoying. Sing it with me, and then see if you can get it to stop playing in your head: it's a small world after all, it's a small world after all. It's a small, small, small world. (repeat until your head explodes) |
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Wayne - #1 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 5:00 AM 254 words |
| Aaron, This is all in good, but wait till your little one watches her first Disney movie and loves it. I know when [child's name] saw Lady and the Tramp she loved it. The look in her eyes and the smile on her was worth it. I know Disney has done some bad things in the past. But hey, the are a major corporation and 99.9999% of them are evil. The Pocahontas story should have never been made into a Disney movie. That is just plain wrong on many levels. As parents, we should try and shield our children from the bad things in the world. They are evils out there around every turn. That is why we should censer things from our children's eyes. But Disney films for the most part are a good part of growing up. Plus it is something that can bring a family together. With [child's name], she loved the movies a lot. This was a great way for us to introduce books to her. Most of these movies have a book you can buy. I believe that this help her in growing a great love for reading. Remember, there is evil in many things. Us as parents can show our children what is good and what is bad. But if we keep them in a bubble, they will never learn how to recognize the danger. Just a thought. |
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Aaron - #2 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 7:19 AM 151 words |
| Well, that's one of the classically defined aspects of that which is "evil" isn't it? How easy it is. I am not adovcating a bubble either. I fully expect my little one to be into Disney. I don't see that there's much I can do about it without being a complete Nazi about it, which is certainly worse in the long run. Commercials, freinds, grandparents, are all going to bring Disney closer to my family than I'd like, and I will just have to deal with it. Whatever happens though, I will be there to give the other sides of a story whenever my kid is ready for it. NOTE: Please do not use any kids names that you know in discussion in this forum. Remember, this is a public website, and anyone can view it. |
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Anon - #3 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 8:11 AM 121 words |
| Well I know my little Tommy... er... I mean [child's name] just loves Disney movies. Though if my little [child's name] lived in a plastic bubble, I could "re-vamp" the Disney classics for him. Like for instance, the tale of Pinnochio: Pinnochio lives in a plastic bubble thinking days on end about the girl that lives next door - how he would long to meet her. One day Pinnochio leaves his plastic bubble to touch the "whore" next door and dies. THE END. Isn't that great?!?! I'm kidding... the precedubg was from the movie Bubble Boy - a great flick which deals with this sort of topic (to an extent). |
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Aaron - #4 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 8:21 AM 21 words |
| I liked that movie! (Bubble Boy) I thought it looked really terrible from the previews, but it was actually pretty funny. |
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Greg - #5 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 8:33 AM 61 words |
| I never bought the "disney owns this un-kid-safe company" so it must be evil crap. Thats just business. Its not as if Disney is putting up billboards "Real mousketeers smoke Marbs" There are plenty of REALLY evil things they've done to focus on. Phillip Morris owns Kraft - does that make their delicious macaroni any less delicious?????????? |
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Aaron - #6 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 8:39 AM 16 words |
Are you sure? |
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Wayne - #7 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 10:16 AM 27 words |
| So that's why I can't understand Donald. Too many years abusing his throat and lungs. I hope they have a good heath plan at Disney. |
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Aaron - #8 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 10:30 AM 11 words |
| You'd think they could just draw him some new lungs. |
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Aaron - #9 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 11:20 AM 30 words |
Oh, I almost forgot! The outright THEFT of the storyline of NHK's Nadia for Atlantis: |
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Aaron - #10 Mon, Aug 18th 2003 @ 11:21 AM 9 words |
| FYI, the Nadia/Atlantis subtract is not a joke. |
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Shay - #11 Tue, Aug 19th 2003 @ 2:21 PM 160 words |
| The most I found when searching for Disney is evil is all the Christians, mainly the Baptists, complaining about Disney supporting gays and so thus they are evil. I guess I just have a different interpretation of what is truly evil because you just haven't convinced me yet.... I totally agree with Wayne on many points. We can find good and bad in almost anything, it's all about perspective and it's the parents job's to relate that to the children who don't really want to see evil so they are not looking for it. I don’t care to sniff out all the bad in Disney and so what I see are animals talking (cute) beautiful splashes of color intermingled with catchy music. Yes, I like Disney’s music; in fact I bought a CD “Disney Song’s Volume 2, long before I had a child. chim chimmney chim chimmney chim chim charoo..... |
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Steven - #12 Thu, Aug 21st 2003 @ 4:22 PM 88 words |
| Michael Eisner is the Devil. He and his toadies control a percentage of the world. I speculate he controls the entertainment we see, for example Disney works with Pixar. Pixar's CEO is Steve Jobs, he is also the "Acting CEO" of Apple Computers and together these companies make movies and games. Those movies and games brainwash us and our children. I recommend going to theyrule.com (very cool!). There you will other nasty people greedily sucking the earth for all it is worth, at a medium pace. |
| Guest:YourMother - #13 Wed, Mar 22nd 2006 @ 7:02 PM 99 words | |
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Attack the theory, not the pers... to hell with that!! YOUR ALL STUPID!! LoL sike but yea i tell everyone Disney is the devil but only because its funny to hear it. Is Disney bad?? Yes. Is Disney good?? No. (HAHAHA) But is Disney entirely bad?? No. So Shut up!! AND CATHOLICS SHUD SHUT DA F*CK UP TALKIN ALL DAT SMACK BOUT DISNEY SUPPORTS GAYS. DEY CAN ALL SUPPORT MAH NUTS IN DEY MOUTHS!! End of story.   |
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Steven - #14 Sun, Mar 26th 2006 @ 7:56 PM 4 words |
| Your a Fag bitchface. |
| Guest:Anon - #15 Fri, Apr 21st 2006 @ 8:49 PM 0 words | |
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| Guest:Anon - #16 Fri, Apr 21st 2006 @ 8:49 PM 19 words | |
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http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/7940/untitled37so.jpg |
| Guest:Anon - #17 Fri, Apr 21st 2006 @ 8:50 PM 3 words | |
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sorry about that |
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Aaron - #18 Fri, Apr 21st 2006 @ 8:58 PM 4 words |
| About what? The penis? |
| Guest:Kari - #19 Wed, Jul 19th 2006 @ 11:54 PM 5 words | |
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DISNEY SUCKS ASS!!! disney=gay |
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Bernardwatson - #20 Mon, Feb 18th 2008 @ 7:31 AM 30 words |
| Interesting, I just posted an article with the same title: Is Disney Evil? (via WhyDoesDisneyAlwaysKillTheParents.com) |
Aaron #124
Sun, Aug 17th 2003