he was ahead of the curve for like solid 15 years at minimum.

Disney, racist? No, no, whatever gave you that idea?

No not really actually. The general idea of walt being a racist and anti Jewish is generally over blown.

Don't get me wrong he was in fact racist. But he was culturally racist. He was a man of his time. Politically and publicly he was honestly what ever.

He was far too focused on his business. And a lot of the more overt racist things that he gets accused of tends to just be from those who he worked around and because of his business would have been supporting. But it was more a byproduct of just running a successful business of the time. Not so much him going out of his way to be racist.

Like you have to really judge things by the culture of the era. What was honestly a very mild 5 out of 10 all things considered. Sure, he could have been better but be sure the f*** wasn't overly problematic. Lot of his contemporaries business partners were far worse and used their influence as well as Walt himself to exert a number of problem. Things which of course won't being more focused on his business and not really caring one way or the other just let happen so you can lay some blame in his feet.

But on the flip side you also have to consider things like song of the South. Where it's a very problematic film and clearly comes from an error of extreme racism and slavery. The focus was on Walt trying to share stories that he heard growing up and sharing the positive side of those stories. Yeah they're from slaves and you can't divorce that. So it's well-meaning just aged poorly.

Cuz by today's standards it's horribly whitewashed and incredibly racist. But back then all things considered when you put it in the context of the era and the man who LED it, it's a honest attempt to do better and share positivity out of something that was horrifically toxic.

Really every time I've ever done a deep dive into Walt's life or his history the same few things come up over and over and over again. Pretty much every major racist, anti-jewish or other problematic thing that people lay at the feet of Walt just comes down to the simple fact. He just didn't care.

He had a business to run. His partners were far worse than him and he just let them do whatever he never stood up and said this is too far because that would have been a bad business move in the era.

Malt is a fantastic example of the cruelty of indifference and capitalism. The business world does not care for morals. It does not care for people. It only cares for money and progress.

Don't feel bad. I decided to play ATV Offroad Fury 2 a few months back. I was thoroughly enjoying the soundtrack and decided to google what band made "Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja" since it was my favorite song on the soundtrack.

Oh a band named the Lostprophets. Oh the lead singer Ian Watkins was murdered in prison. Wait why was he in prison? OH... oh no.

Don't google your heros kids.

One of the (arguably) greatest poets of the 20th century, Ezra Pound, was an unrepentant fascist. His family tried to have him declared insane in order to preserve his reputation.

Yeah I hear ya, I was a huge Ren & Stimpy fan growing up.

The non dilbert books spoke to me as an edgy teen who was smarter than most people and dumber than she thought. As an adult though I look back and think about the sheer lack of wisdom and introspection it must take to write such things as a grown adult. He died as he lived, as wise as a 16 year old and angry that everyone else didn't see the light of his brilliance that he so vividly hallucinated. And I think that is how he fell down the right wing rabbit hole, he lacked the self awareness to see through his biases and was deeply drawn to a certain type of men who are overconfident assholes.

But yeah I liked dilbert as a kid too

I can't find the comic, but the one where Dogbert said "No expensive funeral; just wrap him up in newspapers. He would have wanted it that way." seems especially appropriate.

If shitty person #1 does a shitty thing to shitty person #2, doesn't make shitty person #1 less shitty

now get out there and make me some goddamn money ~huh~ ~huh~