I yearn for the days of Up, Wall-E, and Finding Nemo. I don’t know the quality of the people who made those films, but I know the quality of the films and what they taught. They were stellar and they built the Pixar name into what it once was. Those days are gone.
You’re likely familiar with the phrase “my body my choice.” Whether it is used in reference to abortion choices or in vaccine mandate criticisms, the phrase is one of the most politically and culturally charged statements in the English language. It’s the sort of phrase you only use in an ideological way. For example, you don’t bump into someone and then reply “my body my choice.” You use it in very specific settings, in very specific contexts, with the intent of making a controversial claim. Namely, the phrase is used to present the idea that a person has full control over everything to do with their own body… although almost always only in regards to either abortion or vaccines.
Check out the 14:50 minute mark of this video.
That’s why I find it completely repugnant that Disney and Pixar would put the phrase “my panda my choice” in a children’s movie on Disney+. It is a deliberate move to put a very similar phrase in a children’s movie in order to have them start saying such a thing. Children emulate. Children roleplay. “My panda my choice” conditions children to be able to easily switch to the ideological and political statement. Therefore, this is absolutely propaganda in a children’s movie.
It is wrong if it comes from the left. It is wrong if it comes from the right. It is wrong to propagandize children. This crosses a line that should not be crossed by Disney, Pixar, or any other company.
We have come to the point that I will now need to screen normal Disney movies before allowing my child to watch them. Why? Because I am not about to have my child be propagandized by either political side of the spectrum in a children’s movie. It is shameful that Disney has put their company in a position where I feel this way.
For shame, Disney.
