{"id":2244559,"date":"2024-05-14T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-erases-tinker-bell\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:51:51","slug":"disney-erases-tinker-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-erases-tinker-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney removes Tinker Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisney-erases-tinker-bell%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2244559&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The ongoing debate between\u2063 meritocracy and the &#8220;Army of Losers&#8221; \u200csociety in\u200b Western civilization is\u200c crucial. \u200dRecent actions, such \u2063as \u200cDisney&#8217;s decision to \u200cremove Tinker Bell \u2064due to body-conscious reasons, reflect a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-vows-to-sue-george-soros-funded-ngos-over-free-speech\/\" title=\"Elon Musk to Take Legal Action Against Soros-Funded NGOs for Free Speech\">broader cultural shift<\/a>. Upholding meritocracy is essential for\u2063 societal success and positive developments. Choices made in \u200cchildren&#8217;s entertainment shape future values and outlooks. The ongoing clash between meritocracy\u200c and\u2063 the &#8220;Army of Losers&#8221; society is pivotal in \u2062Western civilization. Disney&#8217;s move \u2064to exclude Tinker\u200b Bell for body-conscious reasons is a sign of a larger cultural change.\u2064 Maintaining meritocracy is vital for\u200b societal advancement. Decisions in children&#8217;s entertainment influence future values and perspectives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are two visions of Western society that are currently on the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vision one: Merit wins. Being good at things actually matters.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This vision of society has excellent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-government-proposes-greater-role-in-local-news\/\" title=\"Federal Government Proposes Greater Role In Local News\">positive externalities<\/a>, because when you are good at things, you end up helping other people. You end up producing goods, products and services that are useful to others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The meritocracy is the only system ever devised by man that actually creates positive effects for everyone else in a society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is vision number one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vision number two is the oversensitive Army of Losers society. Merit is discarded in favor of your level of being offended. The more of a failure you are, the more you get to be offended, and the more offended you are, the worse society is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s because if the people who are unsuccessful get to run all of the levers of society, and part of what they get to do is declare that their un-success is a facet of their victimhood, that means negative externalities for everyone, because it\u2019s literally the reverse of merit. It is failure of merit. It is lack of merit that now puts you high on the totem pole when it comes to this version of society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the sort of conflict that is bubbling to the surface across Western civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re going to have to choose which vision of society we wish to live in \u2014 the meritocracy or the Army of Losers society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With regard to the meritocracy, the backlash has now begun against the Army of Losers society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In excellent news, WRAL News <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/story\/unc-board-of-trustees-removes-dei-funding-from-budget\/21428683\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s Board of Trustees on Monday approved the transfer of $2.3 million in diversity and inclusion spending to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-amendment-cases-headed-for-the-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Supreme Court to Hear Second Amendment Cases\">public safety priorities<\/a> in the 2024-25 budget. The trustees held a special meeting Monday morning. The board is scheduled to hold its regular meeting Wednesday and Thursday. The UNC System Board of Governors is expected to vote next week to eliminate diversity goals and jobs at member institutions, including UNC-Chapel Hill. A Board of Governors committee last month approved a complete rewrite of the system\u2019s existing diversity, equity, and inclusion policy.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is excellent. They are saying, \u201cNo longer are we going to craft all of our systems around the false, pernicious lie that all disparities are because of societal exploitation and discrimination. Instead, we\u2019re going to do away with all of that, and we\u2019re going to go straight back to the meritocracy. We\u2019re not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-michigan-demands-1200-for-china-documents\/\" title=\"University of Michigan Demands ,200 for China Documents\">spending taxpayer money<\/a> on it. We\u2019re not spending tuition money on it. We\u2019re done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is the way that society needs to move if you wish to have a successful meritocracy, a successful society with excellent knock-on effects and an ability to build for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WRAL added that one of the members of the Board of Trustees, David Boliek, said, \u201cI think that DEI is divisive. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s productive. I don\u2019t think it gives a return on investment to taxpayers and to the institution itself.\u201d Boliek said that conversations about increased funding for public safety began after the on-campus shooting death of a professor at the beginning of the 2023-24 school year and were furthered by on-campus protests in support of Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So they are moving all of their funding away from DEI and toward campus safety, which makes perfect sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1964-disney-erases-tinker-bell-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the professoriate is upset. One associate professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Chair of the Faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill said, \u201cFrankly, I was stunned. I have heard from faculty who are very concerned, who are concerned because they see the value in what we\u2019re doing to increase equity and inclusion on campus\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who cares what the professoriate has to say, considering they are the beneficiaries of a system that is directly cutting against meritocracy? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So path one for our societies is to stop this notion that freedom itself, freedom and economics, freedom and association, freedom of speech \u2014 that all of these things are tools of the powerful, designed in order to harm others, and that merit itself is somehow a bad thing and a demonstration of power dynamics in a Foucault deconstructionist way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then there\u2019s path number two, currently being presented by Disney, which has decided they\u2019re going to ax Tinker Bell from doing meet and greets at the park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story doesn\u2019t seem particularly big on the surface except that the way that you educate your children matters an awful lot. The way that you deal with things like children\u2019s entertainment matters because kids are incredibly impressionable, their brains are incredibly malleable and plastic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And when you teach them that Tinker Bell cannot be allowed in public view because Tinker Bell represents some sort of exploitative vision of women, you\u2019re creating a society of victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The predicate for this was something called the Stories Matter initiative over at Disney, which decided that Ursula the villainous sea witch from \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d (who\u2019s an octopus) was, because of her dark color palette, lavender skin and black legs, offensive in some sort of racial way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tinker Bell was also marked for caution. Why? Because she was \u201cBody conscious and jealous of Peter Pan\u2019s attention.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, that\u2019s right: Tinker Bell is body-conscious and therefore she is no longer going to be included in the character meet and greets at Disney World.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now let\u2019s be real about the character of Tinker Bell. Obviously, Tinker Bell is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-was-a-terrific-thing-trump-thanks-biden-for-giving-him-some-credit-for-covid-19-vaccines\/\" title=\"\u2018It Was A Terrific Thing\u2019: Trump Thanks Biden For Giving Him Some Credit For COVID-19 Vaccines\">pretty good shape<\/a> in the movie. The whole joke is that she is a pretty small person who\u2019s in love with Peter. That\u2019s the whole joke of the film. That is part of the relationship between them, which dates back to the original book by J.M. Barrie, but that can\u2019t be included because it might give bad messages to little girls such as \u201cbeing body-conscious actually matters with regard to mating.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or it might give off the impression that sometimes girls get jealous over guys, which you can\u2019t have, because obviously it\u2019s true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These minor symptoms are indicative of broader cultural trends. And those broader cultural trends have an impact on politics because when you have the Army of Losers mentality versus the meritocracy, eventually the meritocracy is going to stand up and roar, because it turns out that the meritocracy is responsible for the success and health of any vital society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The meritocracy is created by and benefits the lions of society, the strongest people when it comes to any merit-based activity. Those are the people who are the drivers of growth. They\u2019re the people who are responsible for the tax revenue. They\u2019re responsible for all the businesses being founded. They\u2019re responsible for success in innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Army of Losers, by contrast, is a group of people who literally have taken themselves out of circulation because they were not meritorious enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joe Biden has decided that he\u2019s going to focus all of his attention on the supposed Army of Losers, and it is a disaster area for him. The only throughline to his administration is what he said it was: equity. Equity is the lie that all disparities are equivalent to discrimination, and therefore, if you can identify a group disparity in any practice across the United States, that means that some sort of exploitation or discrimination is happening that is correctable by government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t actually know if Joe Biden believes all of that. I think that Joe Biden is basically just a pinwheel of a human being who moves in whatever direction he thinks the winds are moving inside of his own party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the direction inside the Democratic Party is toward the anti-meritocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And guess what? Most Americans like the meritocracy. Moderates, independents, even some moderate-leaning Democrats. It turns out that we like systems where effort is rewarded, where merit is rewarded, where innovation gets better because merit is rewarded, because the incentive structure is properly aligned for growth and health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And this is why Joe Biden is collapsing in the polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two visions of Western society are debated: meritocracy and its positive impact. The first emphasizes the value of skill and competence, leading to benefits for individuals and society. 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