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CaptainExplosion on 18 February 2023
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JWeinCom said:
Zkuq said:

And that's one thing I personally dislike about capitalism. For the relatively few people that would still be interested in this, this makes it harder to find this, and this also hinders preservation (although there's probably quite many copies of these comis in circulation). As far as I care, this is a fairly close relative to censorship, so I don't like it being done for what seems like a fairly petty reason. Of course that's just my opinion.

You dislike that companies get to make decisions about what content they want to put out?

First off, this in no way makes it harder to find it. Literally, you can be reading this comic in less than a minute if you desire. But, even if piracy didn't exist, I don't see why Disney has or should have any obligation to make sure everything they have ever published remains continuously as available as possible.

See, I don't really see an answer in what you said about why Disney would benefit from republishing this. A company not doing something that they have no reason to do is not in any way shape or form censorship. The government telling me I can't yell fire in a theater is censorship. Me thinking it over, deciding that would not benefit me, and then keeping my mouth shut is the exact opposite. That is part of free speech. Deciding what to say, and what not to say. The fact that you have to think about how other people might respond to your free speech by using their free of speech is not a bug, it is a feature. 

So, again, I just really don't see the problem of a person or a company deciding what is in their best interest. Not saying it's perfect, but I really can't think of a better system for determining whether or not things like this should be published. Can you?

Dante9 said:

Our hearts go out to all the victims of these duck comics around the world.
The surest way of doing diversity is to not do it at all, because any depiction of anything else than "white" characters will be problematic in someone's eyes.
Anyhoo, Disney should just sell everything and start from scratch, because they are no longer in the entertainment business and don't know what to do with their assets. They are just a ministry of woke.

My heart goes out to all the people who now won't be able to read a 20 year old Donald Duck comic that they didn't know existed until two seconds ago without having to spend 20 seconds on Google. Thoughts and prayers. 

CaptainExplosion said:

Yeah, it's a good thing they're removing this one.

To be fair, in the particular comics mentioned, it's just a brief and really pointless cameo. Could have easily been edited out, or redrawn but then again... why bother with that?

Like with Fantasia, there was a super racist character way worse than this, but they edited it out because Fantasia is an otherwise amazing piece of work and will make them money. Disney has also preserved things like Peter Pan, Gone with the Wind, and so on. So the narrative that Disney is just going to erase everything even vaguely offensive is a deliberately dishonest strawman. It just has to be worth it to them. If you get a cavity on your front tooth you do what you can to preserve it. If you have a cavity on a wisdom tooth you take it out.

Anyone who disagrees with their decision, I issue an open challenge of providing a rational financial reason for them to republish this.

Reminds me of one of the only good aspects of the DuckTales reboot. They redesigned the Bombie so that he doesn't look like a racist caricature of a black man anymore.