Should Catholics boycott Disney?

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AndrewAxland said:
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on_the_hill:
I don’t remember what it is called?
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“Rumspringa”. Literally, “jumping up and down all over the place”.
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That wasn’t me. I know what rumspringa is. 😁
 
I don’t think that as a whole, Disney needs to be boycotted. There were some decent Disney Channel shows back in the day and there are also some decent movies.
As a Star Wars fan, I’m not the most pleased with how they’ve injected their liberal agenda into Star Wars, especially with Solo.
The new Channel shows are raunchy and I will admit that a lot of the movies had some “hidden” adult jokes but that’s hard to avoid these days.
I’d say to keep an eye on what the theme and plot of the movie is and just be watchful. If it’s something you definitely don’t agree with, don’t see it or at least don’t buy a ticket and get it from a library.
If I see them taking anything with Star Wars much farther than they already did with Solo, I will probably just wait to see stuff from the library so I’m not buying a ticket. Avengers actually hasn’t been too bad but it can be raunchy.
Disney is practically buying everything or it’s sister/parent companies are so it’ll be hard to boycott it truthfully…
 
Some of that is just farcical. There’s no way you can boycott every company that supports (no matter how indirectly) something that you disagree with.

And some of that “support” is really indirect. If Planned Parenthood had that many corporate sponsors, they wouldn’t need tax money.
 
fredystairs said:
According to Life Decisions International, yes. According to their literature, LDI does research on individual companies to see if they support PP. If the name is on the list, then they are sure that the company does support them.

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and Marvel does too 😭 ??

When your childhood bubble pops
 
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Every major airline is on that list.

To fly home, I have no affordable option other than a legacy carrier.

A train from Seattle to Raleigh takes about five days. Sorry, but it’s AA for me. Home in nine hours.

This one is insane:

https://www.2ndvote.com/this-weeks-scores-at-a-glance-61518/

(Although I will say I don’t shop at Dick’s since the AR15 insanity, but I think I’ve been in one about four times in the last three years, so that’s not saying much. LOL.)
 
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Every major drug manufacturer, every major insurer (good luck avoiding BCBS, Humana, Cigna, Prudential, John Hancock, MetLife…they’re all big corporate insurers as well as private insurers…), most major banks (sorry, but given what I don’t pay for car insurance through USAA they’ll be staying, plus they know how to handle all my military stuff including car insurance in foreign countries)…most communications and electronics companies…

My head is spinning. I’m serious - how do you pull this off?
 
I cannot say that I avoid doing business with every company on the list. Sometimes its not possible to know who owns what. And sometimes doing business with a company on the list is unavoidable. However, not going to a movie put out by one of these companies is, in my opinion, low hanging fruit.

However, I am reminded of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, who was the orthodox defender of the Faith during the Arian crisis in the fourth century. Because he held to the Faith, he was exiled five times for years from his See, If he can do that, I can miss seeing a couple of movies.

And please understand that I am not trying to put myself on some pedestal. I have failed in many areas.

Blessings
 
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I don’t have that strength of conviction. I just don’t. I honestly admire it.
 
Couple of things here. First, I get my information from Life Decisions International, so I cannot speak to 2nd Vote and what they put out on their web page.

Second, if my wife needed some special medicine to prevent some life threatening medical problem, and Johnson and Johnson was the only manufacturer, you can believe that I’d be the first in line to get it.

Blessings
 
bassmansteiny said:
Even Meijer (midwest version of Walmart)
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HOW DARE YOU INSULT MEIJER LIKE THAT YOU HEATHEN!!!

OT: I’m not really sure my calling for a boycott of Disney will matter much since I only watch an occasional movie from them through Netflix. That said, I’m generally not in favor of calling for boycotts of other companies. We’d pretty much have to stop using tech at that point, since Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google all support things we’d find immoral as Catholics, some more than others.
 
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Just an aside: Has anyone ever noticed how many Disney characters have no mom?
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Did you ever notice how many figures in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson have no mom? Dealing with the “wicked stepmother” is a very common theme in children’s stories from times past, because many, many women used to die in childbirth or at a young age. So stepchildren and orphans were much more common than today.
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Actually, the missing parents aren’t just a matter of “women used to die in childbirth.”

It is a literary device to separate children from their parents so that the children have to act on their own and rely on their own strength to overcome the odds. Whether the children are orphaned, or kidnapped, or run away, or just left with a babysitter – the literary point is to place them in peril while on their own, so they can find their own way through it.

 
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It is a literary device to separate children from their parents so that the children have to act on their own and rely on their own strength to overcome the odds.
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That makes a lot of sense.

I remember how painful it was, while watching The Land Before Time, with my 3 or 4 year old. She was in tears, and I was holding back mine. We had gotten that far, so, gulp, I knew we could not stop there, but just had to continue to go through the grief and disaster to the end. Whew! It turned out ok. Not great, we still missed mom, but we made it. Sigh.
 
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But if it is only a literary device, why is it always the mother that is dead?
 
Irishmom2 said:
But if it is only a literary device, why is it always the mother that is dead?
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The mother is the most important in a child’s life. I read once that babies experience a kind of panic when they first become aware of the fact that mother is not an appendage of their own body.
 
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I was listening to Relevant Radio a year ago and the film specialist said there have been many movies and some as of late where the young child goes against the parents will with the child being the one that is right, such as in the Little Mermaid.
 
…which is adapted from a fairy tale written in 1836, in which the protagonist actually dies.

(The Disney cartoon, which turns 30 next year, is hardly “of late”.)
 
Classic Disney? No.

Today’s Disney? Yes, boycott by all means. What they’re offering nowadays isn’t wholesome anymore (homosexual characters, weak male protagonists, etc.) to say nothing of the ugly things that happen behind the scenes.
 
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