Disney Ignores Uighur Genocide, Films Mulan in Xinjiang

John Stonestreet, Radio Host and President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

In the closing credits of the just-released live-action movie “Mulan,” Disney thanks four Communist Party propaganda departments and a public security bureau in Xinjiang.

This is the same Disney corporation that said it would “find it difficult” to film movies in Georgia because of the state’s pro-life fetal heartbeat law. Yet, not only did they have no such reservations about filming a significant portion of the film in Xinjiang province, which is “ground zero” for China’s savage persecution of its Muslim Uighur population, (include putting over a million in concentration camps), it specifically thanked “organizations that are facilitating (these) crimes against humanity.”

While China’s brutal dictatorship clearly doesn’t care about world opinion, too much of world opinion clearly cares about China, or at least in Disney’s case, Chinese money. While Japan, India and corporations like Apple have taken a stand and moved business out of China, Disney chose to give Beijing a big win.

Copyright 2020 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

Featured Photo Credit: Five Stars by Slices of Light, on Flickr.

Arkansas Lottery Launches New Scratch-Off Tickets

The Arkansas Lottery launched five new scratch-off tickets last week.

The tickets cost anywhere from $1 – $10 each, and are part of the state-run lottery’s trend of rolling out a steady stream of new lottery games every month.

As we have said many times, these scratch-off tickets prey on poor and desperate lottery players by offering long odds on expensive tickets and big jackpot prizes.

Players who buy the lottery’s newest $10 scratch-off ticket have roughly a two out of three chance of losing their money — and the odds of winning the jackpot are a staggering one in 360,000.

Scratch-off tickets like these are controversial, because they are tied to problem gambling and gambling addiction.

A 2015 study in Canada described them as “paper slot machines.” 

A 2018 study published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions found a link between how often a person played scratch-off tickets and the severity of a person’s gambling problem.

Despite all of this, the Arkansas Lottery relies very heavily on scratch-off tickets for revenue.

And even though lottery ticket sales have spiked this year, only a fraction of the money the Arkansas Lottery makes is going to students.

Photo Credit: Powerball and Mega Millions Lottery Billboard in Missouri by Tony Webster, on Flickr.