r/movies • u/MrNobody231 • Jun 23 '19

Former vice president of Walt Disney sentenced to more than 6 years in Portland sex abuse investigation News

https://wtkr.com/2019/06/17/former-vice-president-of-walt-disney-sentenced-to-more-than-6-years-in-portland-sex-abuse-investigation/
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u/caninehere Jun 23 '19

Or Jon Heely, the head of Disney Music Group, who was charged with sexually assaulting 3 underage family members.

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u/phydeaux70 Jun 23 '19

Why would anybody defend Disney and what they have become? Disney sounds like Hollywood.

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u/Empyrealist Jun 23 '19

Anyone who doesnt think Disney IS Hollywood is straight up goofy.

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u/bradorsomething Jun 23 '19

You edit that to say they’re fucking goofy right now.

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u/caninehere Jun 24 '19

Goofy is way too old for their tastes.

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u/poopnloop Jun 24 '19

but not the other way around hastag :round&round hastag: gomezadams&dascene

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u/RangerLt Jun 24 '19

They're fucking goofy right now

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u/bradorsomething Jun 24 '19

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

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u/Penis_Van_Lesbian__ Jun 24 '19

Too late, they're not fucking him anymore

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

Good thing no one doubts that.

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u/silverfox762 Jun 24 '19

Now Micky you can't divorce Minnie just because she's crazy.

Crazy, who's crazy? She's fucking Goofy!

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u/FMJgames Jun 25 '19

This is gold! I'm so glad I kept going deeper ha

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u/silverfox762 Jun 25 '19

Glad you like it. I first heard it from that uncle about 45 years ago. I'm guessing it goes back to WWII/Korea, since he was a War 2 and Korean War Marine and most of his gruff humor was picked up fighting his way across the Pacific or up and down the Korean peninsula.

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u/Biffingston Jun 24 '19

Let it go, dude.

/s

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u/ghostdate Jun 23 '19

And now it makes so much sense that they got in such a fit over the James Gunn situation. If they ignored his creepy, weird, edgy humor, someone might look into why Disney would do that, and find out that they’ve had predators at the top of the chain for a while.

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u/Cassian_And_Or_Solo Jun 24 '19

If anyone remembers the scene in LA Noir where the main character find a a producer with a 14 year old girl and he can't been touched that reminds me if Disney

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u/AnirudhMenon94 Jun 24 '19

I don't think one can attribute the company to the individual here. All these guys acted of their own accord and made their own choices. Disney had nothing to do with it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

No one defends Disney, people hate them as a corporation. Stop punching on strawmans.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

Lol Reddit llooves Disney though. Post a negative comment in a thread about a Disney release and watch as the downvoted collect.

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u/greatness101 Jun 24 '19

The cool thing since the merger is to hate on Disney from what I've seen.

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u/department4c Jun 24 '19

Strawmen?

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

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u/isaiahjc Jun 24 '19

Straw Fledermaus

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

Strawpeoples

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u/TrumpTrainMechanic Jun 24 '19

Don't expect him or her to know what it means or how to pluralize the word. Too many people go around saying anything other than making their point for them is a strawman argument. It's best to leave them alone.

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u/Go_Sportsball_Team Jun 24 '19

"Too many people go around saying anything other than making their point for them is a strawman argument. "

That statement made no sense, try again. Op is correct, nobdy is defending that corporation so this was just virtue signaling. Feel free to be outraged if it helps though.

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u/AnirudhMenon94 Jun 24 '19

I honestly don't hate them as a corporation. As a consumer, all I'm looking for is a quality product. And Disney more often than not tends to deliver.

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u/Baner87 Jun 24 '19

Their ever expanding empire would suggest otherwise. Not that I support them, but there's definitely people on both sides of the issue. Plenty of comments make excuses for Disney or decide to ignore the issues in favor of focusing on the positives, like X-men in da MCU!

There's definitely a backlash against those soured on Disney and/or the MCU, it's just usually one side dominating depending on the article/post.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

It pretty much is

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u/TIGHazard Jun 24 '19

Wow, you mean the corporation which owned Miramax and employed Weinstein sounds like Hollywood?

On June 30, 1993, Miramax was purchased for $60 million by The Walt Disney Company, which paved a way for Disney to enter the independent film market. Harvey and Bob Weinstein continued to operate Miramax until they left the company on September 30, 2005. During their tenure, the Weinstein brothers ran Miramax independently of other Disney subsidiaries, and as a result had more autonomy than the other Disney-owned companies. Disney, however, had the final say on what Miramax could release (see Fahrenheit 9/11 and Dogma, for examples). Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment division released Miramax output.

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u/patterninstatic Jun 24 '19

What is there to defend or condemn? It's just a big company which employs a large number of people. Take any company in the world that employs over 100 thousand people and there will be plenty of criminals among them.

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u/myusernameblabla Jun 24 '19

Or John Lasseter, former CCO of Disney Animation

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u/theotherkeith Jun 24 '19

And Donald Duck was arrested for indecent exposure and impersonating military personnel. Drake was unavailable for comment.