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BTW, another reason I seem to fall in so easily with the alt-right is that I do tend to be skeptical of efforts to "increase diversity". That was my knee-jerk reaction when Marvel announced so many movies with X non-white ethnicity in the lead, until I reasoned it out being that every movie before Black Panther had a white male lead by executive mandate according to both Bob Iger and Kevin Feige, so the lack of diversity in earlier MCU phases was at least equally forced. I say this as a person of color myself, to boot.

Stuff like this led me to keep checking on Midnight's Edge, and what do you know, they seemed to revel in Iger getting "ambushed" by shareholders questioning him about the failure of Lightyear and Strange World, in addition to complaining about "over-representation" of LGBT people in both movies, as if a lesbian couple who disappear after the first act and the first gay protagonist in the Disney Animated Canon are somehow over-representing. The only reason I mention this is how ironic I continue to find that people who complain so much about cancel culture are openly advocating for censorship of ideas they don't like, especially since they claim there are political agendas at work (can't deny there are agendas, just the idea that merely acknowledging the LGBT community is somehow a political statement that disgusts me). This additionally just brings to mind how they used to complain so much about feminists complaining about "rampant violence against women in video games", as if the games expressly condoned such just by containing it when all those feminists were really concerned about was precisely how common such a narrative was. This isn't even the most blatant red flag here, but I just find it particularly precious how these guys keep citing the same 6-7 movies, with maybe only 1 or 2 new examples per year at best, as indications of "Get Woke, Go Broke". Now I know there's no point arguing with them that stuff like the Ghostbusters reboot and Solo flopped for circumstances other than Internet outrage, especially considering some of them continue to insist Disney must have bought Captain Marvel's box-office despite how little that holds up under scrutiny (I caught a livestream where some of them said they saw Disney pulling the same stunts for Shang-Chi and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and then straight-up admitted they had no evidence. Plus, why would Disney explicitly try to "protect" is most surefire cash cow this way and not stuff like the aforementioned Lightyear and Strange World?).

No sympathy for Iger from me though, guys is responsible for Disney over-extending itself. Good riddance, but rampant capitalism is why Disney is struggling now and not so-called wokeness.