Disney Reverts to the Last Trump Administration
With a 2019-era content warning coming back and replacing the longer Biden-era one.
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Anyone who has a Disney+ account can take a trip back in time by watching an old Disney movie like Dumbo or Peter Pan. But not all the way back to the ’40s or the ’50s, when those movies were made, back to 2019. Disney sent out a letter to its employees on February 11 walking back some of its company DEI initiatives, Axios reports. The rollbacks included dropping its Reimagine Tomorrow initiative, which spotlighted employees from marginalized groups, and ditching “Diversity & Inclusion” as one of the factors used to evaluate executive compensation. Disney will also return to a less descriptive version of its content warning on Disney+, which will play before any of its movies that included things like crows named “Jim Crow” or super-racist portrayals of Native Americans, etc., Axios reported, though the company did not mention that change in the employee note. The warning will now read: “This program is presented as originally created and may contain stereotypes or negative depictions.”
The warning instituted in 2020 was much longer and directly acknowledged the content issues. “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now,” the disclaimer read. “Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it, and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.” It was an expansion of the original: “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions,” per the BBC. While much of the modern version is the same as the original, the word “outdated” is missing. Grim but accurate.
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