Disney has a plan to remake Snow White with drastic changes to give it a woke moral.

I have no particular esteem or attachment for the story of Snow White. I am sure I saw the old Disney cartoon once when I was a child but I doubt I would ever watch it again. If it disappeared, I would not miss it.

But it makes no sense to alter an old story in the drastic way that appears to be proposed (assuming it is a real plan, not trolling). Projects to confront real issues, by situating them in old stories that disregarded them, can result in interesting reading. But this project does nothing like that. It would restage Snow White in a totally unrealistic woke world of the past, one that wasn't even imagined back then.

The book, Catherine Called Birdy, was a bit of a stretch for plausibility for a young noblewoman in the 13th century, but not utterly unimaginable, and that made it fun. The movie made from that book went far beyond credibility — it became propaganda to inculcate an openly defiant form of feminism, an attitude that exists today but was not even imagined back then.

Indeed, the only reason I can see for someone to want to stage Snow White in a woke world that never existed is the goal that all stories (for children, at least) must support a certain ideological position. That project seems like brainwashing to me.

The article I linked to participates in the campaign to eliminate each word that means a person with certain characteristics or in a certain role, and replace it with a phrase that contains the word "people" together with modifiers.

The motivations for some of these proposed changes to English are well-meaning, but I doubt that they would improve society in the ways that their proponents claim. Meanwhile, they would mutilate English. I've decided not to go along with this campaign. I will continue using the nouns.