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Disneyland’s Electrical Parade is ditching its patriotic float. Why that’s a good thing
The most notable change appears to be happening with the Main Street Electrical Parade, which is doing away with an America-first finale that had survived a number of decades and featured a closing stars-and-stripes float of the United States flag, followed by a larger-than-life eagle.
The new float will give the Main Street Electrical Parade an infusion of fresh film- and park-inspired intellectual property and strike Disneyland of one of its last remaining symbols of arguably stale patriotism.
....One of the most impactful ways to get to know one another is through the stories we have told over different eras — tales that can represent the full spectrum of the American population — rather than rose-tinted American flag-waving.
I expect Tucker to be all over this, followed by a full-court Fox News press along with expressions of outrage from the likes of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis, who will demand that Disney promise never to do this at Florida's Disney World.
And how will Disney respond to all this? Wait and see. Tick, tick, tick.
Disney's gonna do what Disney's gonna do, but this is the sort of thing that really plays into Republican hands.
Really? I bet even Republicans are tired of the phoney performative patriotic bullshit.
sure they are but they never tire of faux outrage. it's their lifeblood. it's all they have.
At least Disney never billed the federal government for this, unlike the National Football League, which made bank off Salute to Service.
And you comment illustrates the huge divide between lefties and the rest of America. For most people, patriotism is real and not "performative".
Really? Even when it's done by Disney Corporation? Because in mind, EVERYTHING Disney does is performative and calculated.
True, everything Disney does is calculated. No question. I just wonder why they decided to do away with this form of patriotism? What was the reasoning?
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"What was the reasoning?"
Obviously, they reasoned that it would make more money. What did *you* mean by using the word "calculated?"
'performative' is an adjective that modifies the noun 'patriotism, Mr. English major. Contrast that 'real patriotism'.
No one disputes their patriotism is real. It's just that for too many it's patriotism in support of authoritarianism, not constitutional democracy. Witness Republican leaders goose stepping in unison to support an authoritarian thug taking over a neighboring democratic state.
I personally find most displays of “patriotism” to be insincere and performative. It should represent a love of country and a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. not a desire to bludgeon one’s political opponents into submission by appropriating the country’s national symbols for oneself.
George McGovern was a patriot. Madison Cawthorn is a poser.
Bingo! Just like most public displays of religiosity. Doesn't the New Testament have something to say about that?
Disney would not do this if they didn't think it would help them make money. So I am not sure it will be all that damaging politically. Disney has been pretty good at judging its audiences taste and in satisfying that taste over the years.
Yup!
Also, Fox is pretty big and pretty strong, but if I were running Fox, I think I'd try to steer clear of getting nose-to-nose with Disney.
Disney already made FOX/NewsCorp its bitch when they bought everything on the entertainment side, except FOXnews, FoxSports, & FOX Network.
To add to that: I find it encouraging that there apparently is an audience for a more honest style of patriotism.
I'm guessing that all those so-called 'real Americans' don't do a lot of real American things. Like visit Disneyland.
Unless they're Real Americans™ with a lot of Real Disposable Income™, they can't afford it. Have you seen what a couple of days at a Disney resort costs these days. It's eye-watering.
Lol, that article is beyond dumb??? America first??? Give me a break. Nor is there much change is practical float coverage.
Another journalist much like globalist con man Tucker Carlson, who hates America, it infers something that doesn't exist.
Disney now owns Fox News. Obviously Fox has continued to have a free hand to make money how they choose, but that may not extend to actual bashing of a Disney enterprise. Or have I missed real instances of such a thing? I admit I don't watch Fox every minute of the day.
Disney doesn't own Fox News you ninny.
I think it depends on the meaning of the word “owns” in this context. Rupert is a man without fixed principles or beliefs. The bulk of his wealth is in Disney stock,
Fox News+sports channels were spunoff into Fox Corporation which was not bought by Disney. They own no or miniscule amount of stock in it. So I'm using owns in the sense of owns. Try to keep up.
I think you missed my point. Murdoch’s fortune is now in Disney stock. What’s bad for Disney is disastrous for Rupert. Murdoch owns Disney and Disney owns Murdoch.
Fox used to be a media empire built around their movie studio. Disney bought out most of that empire, but the deal did *not* include Fox Sports, Fox News, or the Fox broadcast network.
(They did, however, buy most of the shows aired on the Fox broadcast network, such as "The Simpsons.")
Asm the foreigner in the group I just want to point out that Disney Land and Disney World both get huge numbers of foreign customers and they probably want to emphase Disney more than America to that audience. Also Disney is no friend of DiSantis so pissinh him off would be a bonus.
Perhapes Trumpworld will pause their Putin adulation campaign for a few minutes to go all batshit about this.
Of all that, the thing I found most distasteful was the use of “impactful” …
Wait. So Fox and the GOP will try to cancel Disney over this? Is there no limit to right-wing cancel culture?
Yeah...good luck with trying to cancel Disney! Sometimes you see the lion who was resting in the grass, and when he gets up and stretches out from his nap you say, "Oops, sorry sir, I was just leaving."
American patriotism doesn't sell anymore (hey, even Fox is taking the Russian side against Ukraine).
American flag-waving took a hit last year when Superman (DC/Warner/AT&T) ditched its "truth, justice, and the American way" motto for "truth, justice, and a better tomorrow." Now Disney is replacing the flag parade with Mickey Mouse. (D.F. Wallace would have something to say about this.)
Maybe the reason is that the entertainment biz is not about America anymore. What's the top-grossing movie in the world this year? "Water Gate Bridge," a 100th anniversary tribute of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. What was Disney's top movie in 2021? The Asian-themed "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings."
The marketplace that matters is Asian. That goes for tourists from overseas too. America as a brand (like all things connected to Trump) has taken a hit. It's a small world now, and we're an even smaller part of it.
It was all downhill for the Man of Steel when an effete Welshman like Henry Cavill was tabbed to portray him.
Christopher Reeve was a true blue American Yale grad like recently elevated Supreme Brett Kavanaugh, & Dean Cain stands with America's Real President, Donald Trump, in MAGA.
I am pretty sick and tired of Brits portraying American super heroes. You couldn't find a good American actor? Fuck.
Brandon Routh's penis was too large for the suit.
A big American flag at the end of an everyday Disneyland parade is like starting professional sporting events with the national anthem--it'd seem deeply weird if you weren't already used to it.
It's not obviously objectionable, but one wonders why anyone thought it was a good idea.
Because patriotism is always a good idea.
What Patriotism????? For dying bourgeois states?? Atticus, capitalism should have died in 2008. It's little wonder that was also the year Russia began its outreach to the Republican party, Trump "stormed off" in fury at the DNC in the spring of 2008 and Democrats made huge gains with Midwestern voters, the real key for the Obama coalition sending Republicans reeling into Oligarchs hands.
One who describes himself as a “patriot” is probably the most amenable to treason. It’s really is true that "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." (Samuel Johnson, 1775)
This is a prime example of the types of things that fire up republicans and makes them hate the left. "Stale patriotism"? Really? For most people I know, patriotism can never be stale. If anything we should be injecting more patriotism into our culture to counter the left's hatred of America.
"...the left's hatred of America."
Hey, sport, that's the Trump party rootin' for Putin. Try to keep up.
Considering 60% of "right wing" dialectics is backed by Russian Oligarchs, you may want to rephrase this. Understand said article way overblew the change. Should have never been published.
Reading the Limbaugh/FBI questions before he died is illuminating as well.
NO LIES DETECTED.
I’d like to see the Republican Party actually be patriotic to America instead of Russia. Your party has become a bunch of lickspittles to tinhorn dictators. So sad to see the depths to which the “patriots” have fallen.
"...One of the most impactful ways to get to know one another is through the stories we have told over different eras — tales that can represent the full spectrum of the American population — rather than rose-tinted American flag-waving."
Where are the woke-police when we need them?
Offduty whenever the Dream Police are on the clock.