The Four Color Media Monitor

A writer at the American Thinker went to watch Disney's Zootopia 2 at the movie theaters, and understandably worries it contains stealth apologia for Islam while damning capitalism by contrast:

Here comes the big spoiler: Naturally, Judy is right about the snake’s innocence. It is the evil (and wildly capitalist) Lynxley family that is the real deadly criminal. In other words, Disney has backed away from spouting transgender nonsense and is squarely in the world of anti-capitalism. I would expect nothing less from modern Disney.

However (and now I put on my tinfoil hat), I think there is more going on than one of the world’s biggest corporations taking an ax to capitalism. I think that this is also an effort to tell people, just as Pope Leo recently did, that we really don’t need to worry about bringing Muslims into our countries.

The obvious premise of both movies, of course, is tolerance—to the point in which carnivores somehow managed to live side-by-side with herbivores without eating them. However, “Gary da Snake” takes that premise a step further.

One of the things you need to know is that six out of the world’s seven continents have venomous snakes. They are everywhere, except Antarctica, which is too cold. Across those six continents, there are approximately 600 to 700 venomous snakes. That is a lot of snakes from which to choose when casting an animated movie about peaceful coexistence.

So what did Disney choose? It chose a pit viper, which comes from the Nusa Tenggara region in Indonesia, which is...wait for it…97% Muslim. What are the odds?

The problem, of course, is that history shows that Islam has conquest built into it. For that reason, it has never played well with others. And well, there are certainly wonderful and peaceful Muslim people the world over, and there are regions where Islam has developed fairly peacefully, the Muslims who are making their way en masse to the West do not, as a collective, subscribe to peaceful coexistence.

Of course, tinfoil hat or not, I know that the children who watch the movie are not looking up the fact that Gary comes originally from a region that is 97% Muslim. I agree that this is subtext at a very deep level. However, the overarching message is that exotic immigrants who have the manifest ability to kill us are nevertheless completely harmless, while the snake’s Muslim home is Disney’s little inside joke. And that, I think, is a very dangerous message.

Yes, of course. That said, when studios like Disney took up pandering to LGBT ideology in the past decade, they quite possibly did so as a way of obscuring valid concerns about Islam through use of another 5th column ideology. Now, for all we know, Disney, as a leading representative of Hollywood, could be turning back to whitewashing the Religion of Peace, as some studios did in the past 2 decades post-911. If so, then depending how you view the issue, it does put the lie to the whole notion they actually favor LGBT ideology if they have no qualms over the Religion of Peace's objections to it.

Another problem with Zootopia 2 is that the snakes in the film could also be a metaphor for sex offenders, and Disney's had quite a problem with employees like that for goodness knows how long; maybe as far back as the 50s or 60s. If that's what the new cartoon is driving at, then Disney's modern management has brought them down to ever more heinous levels. So, what good does it do to continue financing Disney's cartoon production at the box office? Some could also argue their shift to 3D animation is another problem, because how are children supposed to be able to appreciate even simpler forms of animation that aren't 3D computer generated? There's too many like that coming out of Hollywood today, and if expensive special effects are a problem, maybe 3D animation could also be a problem in a similar regard. So if Tinseltown needs to cut back on expensive components for live action, maybe animation needs to do the same? Consider that Japanimation by and large doesn't rely on 3D, and its audience largely prefers 2D animation. I think that's a pretty good direction to go in, so maybe it's time for Hollywood to consider that 3D animation isn't everything.

But above all, they have to start finding a moral compass, and stop exploiting cartoons as leftist propaganda for children.

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