Should Catholics boycott Disney?

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theCardinalbird said:
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kill051:
Hmmm…I was not aware of this. Now I am glad I have never seen a Marvel movie.
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Apparently there is a list of names that support PP. Have I read it? No. Did I confirm that Marvel was on it? Nope…

Sorry if that sounds sassy! 😶
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Ah well. I still won’t be attending any Marvel films. Just not something I am interested in. Give me Charlie Chaplin, Akira Kurosawa or William Wyler and I am happy.
 
Disney apparently supports Planned Parenthood. Disney owns Marvel.

But I’ve learned that many of those “support” statements read like the story of the house that Jack built. As in, they contribute to a company that contributes to a company that may have supported PP.
 
Pup7 said:
Disney apparently supports Planned Parenthood. Disney owns Marvel.

But I’ve learned that many of those “support” statements read like the story of the house that Jack built. As in, they contribute to a company that contributes to a company that may have supported PP.
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Ah. So due diligence in research on my part is definitely warranted. Thanks Pup7.
 
There’s a danger inherent in all that, though. First off, eliminating every single possible affiliation between you and Company X’s thing that they support that you disagree with is pretty much impossible.

The second thing is the Kevin Bacon rule (LOL) - the six degrees of separation.

Party X wants to boycott Company Y because Company Y apparently supports Group J, which is A Cause They Don’t Agree With.

The problem is, Company Y once sponsored Cause B which was supplied by Company Z and endorsed by Group J…which is the actual Cause Party X Doesn’t Agree With. Company Y had NOTHING to do directly with Group J. It’s guilt by association, and a web no one has time to pick through.

You really can’t spend your life splitting hairs to that extent unless you’re going to go completely - and I do mean COMPLETELY - off the grid.

I wanted to put this in the other post, but I thought it would make it confusing. LOL. 🙂
 
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Pup7 said:
You really can’t spend your life splitting hairs to that extent unless you’re going to go completely - and I do mean COMPLETELY - off the grid.
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As I have said in some of my other posts, completely off-grid living is a great dream of mine. Unfortunately, recent medical issues necessitate my remaining in civilised society for the moment. I am impatient for the day I can leave high technology behind and live as I want.
 
kill051 said:
As I have said in some of my other posts, completely off-grid living is a great dream of mine. Unfortunately, recent medical issues necessitate my remaining in civilised society for the moment. I am impatient for the day I can leave high technology behind and live as I want.
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Would that make you a technophobe or just someone not into modern technology, in regards to media etc.😀
 
IWantGod said:
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kill051:
As I have said in some of my other posts, completely off-grid living is a great dream of mine. Unfortunately, recent medical issues necessitate my remaining in civilised society for the moment. I am impatient for the day I can leave high technology behind and live as I want.
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Would that make you a technophobe or just someone not into modern technology, in regards to media etc.😀
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Oh no, not a technophobe at all. Despite a certain inherent clumsiness which I have never outgrown, and an aversion to math and such, I have no real problem with operating hi-tech stuff. Rather, it’s the idea that it is silly to use a power grid for something that is just as well done manually. I remember in my teens trying to get my body clock adjusted to where I woke up at sunrise and fell asleep at sunset because I thought electric light was dumb. Weird, I know. To this day, when I cook I never use electric appliances when an alternative is available. For instance, while my mother used a rotary mixer to whip her mashed potatoes, I use an egg beater or a ricer. I own no blender, preferring to chop things up with a knife or, better yet, a mortar and pestle. I own no television, radio, refrigerator, microwave, home computer, laptop, nor Kindle. When I first heard of Kindle, the idea of a book that requires power to be read struck me as one of the most inane things I’d ever heard. Books are the lowest-tech entertainment available. Just the book and the sun; that’s all you need. So it’s not really so much a phobia as an aversion to anything that complicates my simple life.
 
I fly so much and am gone/en route to somewhere so often that a Kindle/iPad actually makes my life easier. (Not a criticism at all, more of an observation on how people can view things so differently. I think it’s interesting.) Oh, the load that lightened for me when traveling when I chucked a laptop and two books and put everything in a tablet.
 
It’s also worth noting that some companies will match donations that their employees make. Plenty of companies probably end up donating money to Planned Parenthood that way.
 
Which to me doesn’t mean they “support” it.

To be honest, I’m more bothered by all the stuff I own that’s likely built under questionable foreign labor laws than I am most things these days. Unless it’s blatant support, I can’t devote that much time to the ins and outs.

I know CFA is always a safe bet, though. 🙂
 
To buy Disney goods or services is to materially cooperate with evil. But that is true for almost everything these days. I don’t think Disney is so bad yet that it must be boycotted. But certain aspects of Disney certainly should.

Much of their children programming is dangerous for many reasons. They subtly teach children very bad things. Also the child stars are dangerous to glorify as they so often tend to suddenly turn bad once they are no longer minors.
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Ewan McGregor has a short and to-the-point response to those boycotting Beauty and the Beast over LeFou’s “exclusively gay moment.”

“It’s just like, he’s a gay character and it’s 2017 for f— sake,” the actor, who plays Lumière in the film, told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday. “There’s a lot of gay sex in this cartoon,” he joked earlier, “and I think if you live anywhere near Alabama you should not go and see this film. What would Jesus think?”
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Typical thoughtless comment from a lunatic entertainer. What 2017 has to do with morality is beyond me. Also they sure do hate the South. Liberals love to mock southerners. That is a safe group to make fun of since they more than any other area of the country hold on to morality and tradition.
 
So it depends on what you consider a distraction.
If someone can balance God and the world while always putting God first, it should be fine.
 
I grew up on Looney Tunes.

I didn’t think dropping anvils from cliffs on people was good practice.
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Typical thoughtless comment from a lunatic entertainer.
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That I agree with. Clearly Ewan McGregor is an idiot.
 
The violence was better than what they subtly promote now including homosexuality, insubordination, the occult etc.
 
Being true to yourself is not a Christian theme. It’s a very modern one, in fact.
 
I say vote with your wallet to let Disney know the kind of movies you want to see.

I like Star Wars, but I have not seen the new trilogy because it is full of SJW rubbish. I might go see Solo because I have seen reviews from some professional Star Wars YouTubers that it has less SJW cr@p and a lot of stuff brought in from Legends.
 
You do know kids have no idea, correct? Ever seen “Shrek” in a theater?

Kids don’t get it.
 
Kids are influenced by everything. Their minds are a spong. Just because they don’t ‘get’ something doesn’t mean they aren’t influenced.
 
Being true to yourself can definitely be a Christian theme. Not conforming to what the world or society expects from you.
 
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