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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The 'oh they just want a bigger audience' argument is such utter horseshit but I'll address one point: if it is the case that minorities just need to see themselves more in art to enjoy it and consume it then why wouldn't it be also true that the less whites see of themselves in art the less they will consume?

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Disney certainly considered this, which is part of the point of my last sentence. Whites in this demographic (who won't watch a movie that has non-whites) are few and unimportant. Though many of them were given a voice during the Trump presidency, and others were encouraged to be like them, there are so few of them. Also, the rate at which non-wites are having babies has for years outpaced the rate at which whites are having children. Disney also knows that there would be a negative response to them by the majority in the US were they to continue making movies mainly with whites in them. This is a decades-old trend for movie companies, to include non-whites.