Can I ask how you feel about Disney hiring Wernher von Braun? Do you think his apolitical personal nature makes his hiring apolitical in spite of his history as a Nazi scientist, or is his history of work unremovable from his person and reflect badly on Disney for putting a former Nazi front and center? (My dad thinks the former, while I’m inclined to think the latter.)

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I didn’t even know Disney had hired Wernher von Braun, though i knew NASA did (I found an article about both). Tom Lehrer even wrote a song about it. You should listen to it, it’s funny.

No, I don’t think hiring von Braun was apolitical, either for Disney or for the U.S. government. But Disney was an antisemitic fascist-sympathizing fuck to begin with, so it’s not exactly surprising.

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