This is a completely infuriating story about the people trying to use the kinetic power of moralizing to melt all art and culture down to pablum. I hope this film gets the attention of gutsy people with money and the wide distribution it deserves.
nytimes.com/2022/09/25/us/…
nytimes.com/2022/09/25/us/…
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Oh my God:
Abigail Disney, a grandniece of Walt Disney, had been the executive director of “Jihad Rehab” and called it “freaking brilliant” in an email to Ms. Smaker. Now she disavowed it.
The film “landed like a truckload of hate,” Ms. Disney wrote in an open letter.
Oh my God:
Abigail Disney, a grandniece of Walt Disney, had been the executive director of “Jihad Rehab” and called it “freaking brilliant” in an email to Ms. Smaker. Now she disavowed it.
The film “landed like a truckload of hate,” Ms. Disney wrote in an open letter.
3/ Stop fucking reducing people to their skin color. It's gross and immoral behavior, and it's crazy to me that it's not only allowed but incentivized in so many liberal spaces. 
4/This woman basically dedicated her life to understanding the roots of terrorism in a sophisticated, humanizing manner, and learned Arabic to do so. Now she's broke and a pariah because a bunch of assholes who never saw the film joined a deranged pileon.This is terrible for art.
5/ The only thin lining here -- and I guess it's very thin given how powerful she is -- is that a bunch of people in this world now know to be very, very careful about working with Abigail Disney, who will betray you in a nanosecond if that's the expedient route.
6/ On this, which some are bringing up: In my experience, every time a pileon grows to the point where folks who haven't seen/read the thing in question denounce it, the Open Letter contains plainly false or misleading claims. I'm aware of zero exceptions.
indiewire.com/2022/03/muslim…
indiewire.com/2022/03/muslim…
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