This article has a few sources, but you're right to call it out: it sounds like the lower level PR people got a new script to disseminate, and time will tell if they actually mean it or if they just would rather we stop talking about it.
(... I truly think the CCP is involved, so no I don't think Disney means it: I think they want to keep their Chinese assets and their American audience, and will say and do anything trying to keep both. Unfortunately for them, I don't think they can have their cake and eat it too.)
Most of the article's sources support what I am saying. There's only one that supports the idea that all of the sudden "woke not welcome", which appears to just be one guy promoting his YouTube channel Overlord DVD.
https://cosmicbook.news/disney-purging-star-wars-marvel-woke-agenda
This article has a few sources, but you're right to call it out: it sounds like the lower level PR people got a new script to disseminate, and time will tell if they actually mean it or if they just would rather we stop talking about it.
(... I truly think the CCP is involved, so no I don't think Disney means it: I think they want to keep their Chinese assets and their American audience, and will say and do anything trying to keep both. Unfortunately for them, I don't think they can have their cake and eat it too.)
Most of the article's sources support what I am saying. There's only one that supports the idea that all of the sudden "woke not welcome", which appears to just be one guy promoting his YouTube channel Overlord DVD.
Disney is a running dog for the CCP. https://www.slashfilm.com/disney-backlash-mulan-credits-ccp-coronavirus/