90s Disney Films and Millennials vs. Zoomers

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I catch up with

John Arcto

about a topic near and dear to my heart—90s Disney films.

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Topics include:

• My original comment arguing that the gypsies in Hunchback of Notre Dame are actually meant to represent Jews

• The artistic merits of Hunchback and its occasional tonal inconsistency

• Why incels relate to Quasimodo

• The gypsy music in Hunchback sounds very klezmer

• The American boomer Jews who made Hunchback were consciously or unconsciously using an ostensibly gypsy framing to tell a very Jewish story

• Frollo was based on a character from Schindler’s List and his hatred for gypsies feels a lot more similar to IRL antisemitism than IRL gypsy hate

• Frollo’s obsession for Esmerelda feels similar to Brian de Bois-Guilbert’s obsession over Rebecca from Ivanhoe

• Are Faustian wordcels inexorably drawn to Jewesses?

• The classic Belle Juive archetype

• Why did the Holocaust happen in Germany instead of Russia?

• Arcto put together a compilation of Hunchback scenes without the gargoyles because he finds them so annoying

• Clopin is a Fagin-like figure

• Arcto is against

  Robert Stark
  ’s sexual ethics because the appeal of femdom for him is its social stigma… so shouldn’t he support normative maledom more?

• Why does Arcto think of transgenderism as such a major issue?

• Why Walter chose Disney as the framing device for his old parodies

• Walt’s hot take that Hakuna Matata is a villain song

• Jordan Peterson’s excellent Jungian analysis of The Lion King

• If a woman is uncomplicatedly nice to you that probably means she isn’t attracted to you at all and just doesn’t take you seriously

• Incels wouldn’t have identified with Quasimodo in the 1990s

• Walt and John have both tried to ask out random girls on the bus

• Temperamental differences between Millennials and Zoomers

• John’s thesis that everything has grown a lot more political over time

• The Amazing Atheist as a representative of Millennial culture

• A lot of Millennial women act like they’re in a wholesome chungus TV show with random onlookers as an audience waiting for their punchlines

• Millennials had the biggest gap between how the world was promised to them as kids and how the world actually is

• The destructive influence of the “chosen one” narrative on Millennial psychology

• Do Zoomers like Harry Potter less purely for Rowling’s TERFism?

• Why Walt is more bothered than John by the Religious Right

• Walt argues Millennials are more likely than Zoomers to narrativize their lives

• Are Frozen, Moana, Encanto etc. examples of Woke cultural decline?

• Walt finds early 2010s feminism more objectionable than modern Wokeism

• The difference between Jezebel-style feminism, SJWism, and Wokeism

• Walt argues in favor of an aggressive sexual essentialism

• The Woke are more correct than the mainstream

• You can’t disaggregate the impact of genetic difference from the impact of discrimination because everything works in a feedback loop

• Clarence Thomas’s progression from Black Nationalism to Afropessimsim

• Everyone overindexes based on the way things were when they were 22

• Walt thinks John is way too sympathetic to sex negative feminists

• Does Walt ackchully find it a turnoff when women enjoy sex?

• A lot of people instinctively feel that anyone with a different sexual aesthetic or script is inherently disgusting and bad

• The passage in

  Dan Baltic
  ’s Nutcrankr where the spergy protag’s gf has to tell him not to punch her ass while spanking her is extremely realistic