Are you referring to their mild criticism (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dis...) of the state of Florida’s crusade against LGBT ?
Disney includes minorities because it pays off, what does not pay off is to create bad/mediocre movies. There are many movies even more progressive than the very conservative Disney that do better just because the movies are good.
They keep firing or abusing the talent, and the people left over make poor decisions.
For instance, Disney+ launched without any content that would appeal to parents, then went all puritanical on Daryl Hannah’s butt. In top of that, it was a middle-of-the-road offering for the under 10 crowd. I’m not really sure who that product was supposed to appeal to. Maybe teenage boys like watching angsty superhero dramas?
Roughly partitioning kids cartoons from a gen-x / millennial perspective, we have:
- loony tunes (thankfully torrents still exist)
- Disney movies up to and including Beauty and the Beast
(Most of the above are somewhat culturally dated, but more kid appropriate than, say, adult swim)
- Pixar up to the Disney acquisition and third party American animation.
- Kid’s Anime
- Whatever garbage Disney produced more recently (yes, there are a half dozen exceptions, but it is almost all direct to DVD or mediocre theater releases, and I am too busy to sift through the large library of “meh”).
Disney+ is still missing third party and anime. At launch, it was missing a bunch of older Disney and Pixar stuff.
The remaining category in my list is “mostly crap, with a few gems”.
Hell, even HBO+ has more/higher-quality kid-friendly content.
Corporate ethics for the two companies in recent years have both been dismal from a red and blue perspective.
I wish we’d go back to having reasonable copyright expiration windows, so that there was some ethical and also legal means to procure movies for the kids.
The cultural center of the country and the corporate and academic elite seem to be moving further apart.
