Ponder, If You Will, the Monumental Effort and Stupidity It Took to Ruin ‘Snow White’

I have been watching the drama over Disney’s reboot of “Snow White” with both fascination and dismay. It’s not the good kind of fascination either. It’s more like viewing a train derailment from a high rise building a couple of blocks away — you don’t want to see it, but you can’t stop looking.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is one of the most famous adages that we all seem to learn very early in adulthood, if not earlier. It’s not universally applicable, of course. A misapplication of that idea could lead to stagnation or — the rapid demise of Blockbuster Video comes to mind here — complete destruction.

It’s a good rule to follow in most cases though. A recent example would be my St. Patrick’s Day dinner this week. I told everyone that I had perfected my corned beef and cabbage in the Crockpot, but wanted to experiment this year. I did the corned beef on the smoker and it was not at all a good mix with the cabbage and carrots. In modern culinary parlance, it didn’t pair well. When describing my disappointment to my sister, I said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

The Walt Disney Corporation has been horribly infected with wokeness, and this has put them in the “fix it” mood. If it had just been the corporate suits or the creatives who caught the woke sickness things might not have gotten this far. There probably would have been some friction, then a compromise that didn’t yield anything too awful. Unfortunately, everybody but the people who clean up the theme parks was hit with it, and the rush to swirl down the toilet was on.

There is another adage that has been around for a long time but is pretty much garbage: any publicity is good publicity. The red flags for “Snow White” were flying very early. My good friend and partner in thought crime Stephen Green was chronicling that almost two years before the movie’s premiere. No studio wants to be dealing with damage control that far in advance. […]

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