After the revelations that Bill Cosby admitted to acquiring quaaludes in order to drug women into having sex with him, the whole world is finally seeing Cosby for the disgusting rapist he is (except maybe Whoopi Goldberg) and no one wants anything to do with him. To that end, Disney World has removed the statute of Cosby that was in their park, and GOOD RIDDANCE TO IT!
From Variety:
The bronze bust was taken down from Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park on Tuesday night, a spokesman told NBC News.
An online petition calling for the statue’s removal had circulated for months. The TV section of the resort’s Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Plaza also houses tributes to Oprah Winfrey and Lucille Ball, among other celebrities.
No loss there, and really it should have been removed months ago, but whatever. All’s well that ends well. I hope Cosby’s entire legacy is torn apart piece by piece, as it should be.
There’s an identical one outside the Emmy headquarters in north Hollywood. As far as I know it’s still there.
Walt Disney was allegedly a racist and anti-semite and most of the kids his company has employed wound up screwed and he’s beloved. Who knows what else he did. Plenty of statues, amusement parks and accolades for him.