alt Hacker News> The decline in quality is obvious and measurable, just look at the reception of old disney productions versus their remaklers for "modern audiences".
This argument (in summary, wokeness makes modern Disney less enjoyable/profitable) doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Mainline Disney movies these days are, on average, more politically bland than the beloved “renaissance” classics. The latter tended to be extremely liberal, even by historical standards—some of them shocking to watch, now. Beauty and the Beast is a good example of this.
Andor is a notable counterexample, having a consistent and obvious politics, but it is also relatively loved. My evangelical Christian relations can’t get enough of it. They like it even more than The Mandalorian.
>Mainline Disney movies these days are, on average, more politically bland than the beloved “renaissance” classics.
What exactly was political in the Disney “renaissance” classics?
>The latter tended to be extremely liberal, even by historical standards—some of them shocking to watch, now.
Nothing wrong with being liberal. The issue is with the flavor and definition of liberalism you choose as the benchmark. People are NOT OK with gender swaps, race swaps, and forced LGBTQ inserst in ther entertainment masquerading as "liberalism" when it's propaganda inserted by activists designed to "own the (chuds)conservatives".
The liberalism of the 1990's Disney “renaissance” classics would be considered conservative and even bigoted by today's modern definition of liberalism that activists have co-opted.