How Disney is indoctrinating kids with woke cartoons  trends now

As the company continues to see its stock price go down, and as it's forced to slash 7,000 jobs, Disney still insists on producing 'woke' content that panders to liberal viewpoints.

Disney has, for almost a century, positioned itself as the outstanding place for all families to be able to watch movies and television together, connecting them to their characters on television, video games, action figures and, of course, their theme parks. 

However, the company has taken steps towards a more progressive image in the past decade, especially since the launch of money-hemorrhaging streaming service Disney+, which has both propped up left-leaning content and forced parents to go through 'parental advisories' to get to the classics. 

It was announced Wednesday that the streamer had lost over two million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022 alone.  

They have given old characters progressive makeovers, and removed offensive imagery from rides and movies. However, some people feel the company has gone too far in its woke reinvention.

Looking at the company's recent offerings - and its re-edits of classics - it's easy to see why its fiercest critics see a trend of left-wing thought, or at least kowtowing to political correctness. 

One of those critics is billionaire investor Nelson Peltz, who recently declared war on the company's 'excessive spending and mismanagement.' 

More backlash came over the new Disney+ show The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, which has been branded 'anti-white propaganda'.

The cartoon featured black children rapping about reparations and saying: 'Slaves built this country.'

Bruce W. Smith, 61, who created the show in 2001 before rebooting it for a comeback on the streaming platform this year, said he was stunned - and thrilled - by the controversy. 

Smith, who co-directed Space Jam, tweeted: 'Why the fear? We're thrilled to have the opportunity to stoke the conversation.'

He then retweeted a comment on a video showing the kids in the show peacefully protesting when cops in riot gear show up.

'Republicans are losing their minds, calling on Americans to Boycott Disney because of this scene from a Disney cartoon The Proud Family,' the tweet read.

'They are literally mad that kids are learning that slaves helped build our nation. What the hell are they afraid of?'

Smith also liked a comment which said: 'Everyone so surprised that Proud family did this. 

'Y'all forget the original had episodes about segregation, discrimination post 9/11 of middle eastern folks and an episode about the F slur/bullying gay kids? 

'C'mon now. Proud family isn't "suddenly woke" now.'

In late 2022, the cartoon Strange World tanked at the box office, which some saw many saw as proof of the slogan 'Get woke, go broke'. 

The cartoon, with a cast including Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Gabrielle Union and Lucy Liu, featured Daily Show contributor Jaboukie Young-White as the voice of what's been heralded as Disney's first openly gay character.

Strange World did not even clear $20million at the Thanksgiving weekend box office, despite its gargantuan budget of $120-130million. 

It eventually grossed $73million, below the studio's notorious 2002 flop Treasure Planet, which made just $110million. 

While the movie has a 73 percent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film only has a 'B' rating on CinemaScore from opening day audiences, according to The Wrap.  

If that grade holds, it will be the first Disney animated film to get below an A-minus.  

 Many have used the box office numbers to cite this as an example of Disney's misguided attempt to go work.

A Rotten Tomatoes reviewer wrote: 'If I want to teach my children about sex and or sexual preferences at 7 and 8 I would do it in my home. I don't need a Disney movie to help me out with it. STOP making everything sexual, its unbelievable.'

One Tweeter pointed out: 'First Lightyear and now Strange World. Disney and Pixar releasing woke flops, one after the other. How many box office bombs before Disney learns?' 

Lightyear, which depicts the origins of beloved Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear, flopped on its opening weekend last summer, earning just $51.7million, following weeks of controversy over a lesbian kiss.

Critics pointed out that Disney had refused to cut the gay kissing scene, despite bowing to Chinese censors multiple times over the years.

Malaysia's Film Censorship Board said Disney had decided to ax the movie from the country's theaters rather than lose the scenes that 'promote' homosexuality.

But the company was later slammed as hypocritical for supporting gay rights but failing to condemn China's genocide of the Uyghurs in its Mulan live-action remake.

The company has also created its first plus-size protagonist for a short film about body dysmorphia.

In the company's 85-year history of making movies, plus-size characters have only ever featured in the roles of villains or extras - and fans were, for once, full of praise for the change.

The film, entitled Reflect, follows the story of a young plus-size ballet dancer named Bianca, 'who battles her own reflection, overcoming doubt and fear by channeling her inner strength, grace and power.'

Disney fans had long called on the corporation to create plus-size princesses, with a post in 2015 that showed Disney characters given plus-size makeovers going viral. 

And last year, the company was accused of pushing 'unrealistic beauty standards' on children after including a character with an enormous bottom, stick-thin arms and a waist barely bigger than her neck in the short film Inner Workings. 

But the woke mindset has even permeated remakes of some of the House of Mouse's most beloved classics. 

In January 2022, it revealed that its upcoming live-action remake of Snow White will not feature the classic depiction of the central character's seven companions as dwarves.

Following furious criticism from Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage, the company said it had been 'consulting with members of the dwarfism community' throughout the early stages of production, and decided to take 'a different approach' to the seven dwarves that appeared in the original animated classic 'to avoid reinforcing stereotypes.' 

Dinklage blasted Disney for remaking the 1937 film in the first place, during an appearance on Marc Maron's podcast.

He called out the contradiction between the studio's decision to cast Latina West Side Story breakout star Rachel Zegler as Snow White, while still moving forward with a movie about a 'backward' story that focuses on the seven dwarves.

'Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback when they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White - but you’re still telling the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' Peter said.

'Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me. 

'You’re progressive in one way and you’re still making that f***ing backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together, what the f*** are you doing man?'

When the company a live-action version of the 1992 animated movie Aladdin, it changed some words it feared might be considered racist against Arabs. 

In the opening song, the words go: 'Oh, I come from a land / From a faraway place / Where the caravan camels roam.

'Where they cut off your ear / If they don’t like your face / It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home.'

In the 2019 remake, however, the lines were changed to: 'Oh, I come from a land / From a faraway place / Where the caravan camels roam.

'Where it’s flat and immense / And the heat is intense / It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s

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