WDW1974
Well-Known Member
No company is quite as MAGICal when it comes to hypocrisy as The Walt Disney Company is.
No way I can defend Bill Cosby. I saw an interview last night with a woman who worked for Hugh Heffner's empire and was raped by Cos. She said that Mr. Huxtable will likely go down as the biggest serial rapist of all time.
The thing is, though, where exactly does it stop? Some of the others honored by the TV Academy have their own skeletons. Then, as others mentioned above there is the absurd running of Captain EO in 2015 that was brought back simply to capitalize on the death of Michael Jackson, who had plenty of baggage associated with him.
Disney has no issue glorifying Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods in the very finale of the American Adventure, of all attractions. Where's the anger to get that updated and removed? Oh yeah, no one will notice if Cosby's bust is removed because barely anyone noticed it to begin with. But changing the AA has a cost associated with it, actually multiple costs.
Then there's the matter of enjoying attractions that were designed by individuals with nasty secrets of their own. I guess that's simply a case of what people don't know is really none of their business.
It's just amazing that a company that rests itself on a squeaky clean image where things like 'f word' don't exist (unless Bob Iger is talking to Jay Rasulo or Tom Staggs) can often make some of us feel so dirty.
No way I can defend Bill Cosby. I saw an interview last night with a woman who worked for Hugh Heffner's empire and was raped by Cos. She said that Mr. Huxtable will likely go down as the biggest serial rapist of all time.
The thing is, though, where exactly does it stop? Some of the others honored by the TV Academy have their own skeletons. Then, as others mentioned above there is the absurd running of Captain EO in 2015 that was brought back simply to capitalize on the death of Michael Jackson, who had plenty of baggage associated with him.
Disney has no issue glorifying Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods in the very finale of the American Adventure, of all attractions. Where's the anger to get that updated and removed? Oh yeah, no one will notice if Cosby's bust is removed because barely anyone noticed it to begin with. But changing the AA has a cost associated with it, actually multiple costs.
Then there's the matter of enjoying attractions that were designed by individuals with nasty secrets of their own. I guess that's simply a case of what people don't know is really none of their business.
It's just amazing that a company that rests itself on a squeaky clean image where things like 'f word' don't exist (unless Bob Iger is talking to Jay Rasulo or Tom Staggs) can often make some of us feel so dirty.
not disagreeing with the facts but just throwing that out there..
