Corporate Virtue Signalling Begins

[Black Orchid]

Disney has pulled all advertisements from Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program. But the company is willing to collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party which oppresses black people and has Muslims in concentration camps.

Disney’s exodus from Tucker Carlson Tonight is the latest display of corporate virtue-signaling, prompted by the top-rated host refusing to mindlessly pledge allegiance to the Democrat-funding Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in light of nationwide protests over George Floyd’s death.

“This may be a lot of things, this moment we’re living through, but it is definitely not about black lives,” Carlson has noted.

While Disney is keen to display their “wokeness” and often peddles its own social justice-inspired content, their work with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is deeply entrenched and widely noted.

The CCP has an appalling human rights record by the left’s own standards, repressing ethnic minorities, quashing protests with lethal force, and silencing feminist, #MeToo activists.

Despite this, Disney has pursued joint ventures with the CCP worth billions of dollars.

“Disney is not going to offend China — they’ve had so much invested there, with theme parks, etc., and their films,” said Stanley Rosen, a professor of political science specializing in Chinese studies at the University of Southern California.

Take Shanghai Disneyland, a $5.5 billion venture, where the state-owned Shanghai Shendi Investment Group owns the majority of the park, profiting immensely.

The CCP also retains managerial control over “everything from the price of admission to the types of rides at the park,” according to The New York Times.

To solidify the deal, then-CEO Robert Iger had to “appease” Chinese officials:

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At the park – which employs hundreds of CCP members – employees “attend party lectures during business hours,” “display hammer-and-sickle insignia at their desks,” and a “party-activity center, adorned with Mickey Mouse silhouettes” operates adjacent to the park according to The Wall Street Journal.

The center has even been used to host CCP propaganda lectures.

“Party officials help manage staff welfare and arrange activities such as political seminars for members and singing contests for all employees,” the report added.

And Disney executives are well aware: Chinese state media touted Murray King, the resort’s Canadian vice president for public affairs, saying its “best employees are mostly party members.” A photo even showed King beside the resort’s deputy general manager and party chief, Jean Zou, with a screen behind them reading “party-building” meeting.

But the company’s ties run deeper than just a single amusement park. In 1997, as Disney had begun making inroads in China.

The company made “Kundun,” a film about the CCP’s brutal treatment of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. In the eyes of the regime, the Dalai Lama is a separatist, prompting the CCP to denounced the project and pressuring Disney to abandon it. Disney did ultimately distribute the move in the U.S., and China retaliated by banning the company’s content.

One year later Disney hired former Secretary of State and China appeaser Henry Kissinger as part of an “intense lobbying effort.”

Then-CEO Michael Eisner met with Prime Minister Zhu Rongji and apologized for Kundun, insisting it was a “stupid mistake.”

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China has also used Disney’s recent Mulan remake to attack Hong Kong protestors.

The film’s star, Crystal Yifei Liu, re-posted a meme from Chinese state media declaring “I support the Hong Kong police” alongside a heart emoji, just days after the same police force had “employed less-lethal weapons in ways that are prohibited by international norms and standards,” according to the United Nations Human Rights office.

Despite criticism, Disney never released a statement or condemned Liu’s actions.

Disney has also never rebuked the CCP’s draconian censorship of Winnie the Pooh, the company’s own cartoon character, after Chinese citizens compared President Xi Jinping to the bear on social media.

If Disney divests from Tucker Carlson Tonight, it ought to divest from the CCP, too.

Carlson’s alleged “offenses,” failing to support a Democrat-affiliated political movement which seeks to defund the police, pale in comparison to the tens of millions of deaths that have occurred at the hands of the CCP.

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/disney-carlson/

[Texan]

Some Ford employees are asking management that Ford Ford stop making police vehicles. I hope they are the first to lose their job when Ford is forced to downsize.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thever ... orge-floyd

[Black Orchid]

I saw someone say to give them a Ford Pinto with an extra large capacity fuel tank. Sounds like a good idea lol.