Los Angeles, CA (CNN) — The nearly 102-year-old Walt Disney Company is no stranger to being catapulted into America’s culture wars. But the wrangling over “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” this month marked a new milestone in the entertainment behemoth’s frequent foray into culture-war flashpoints.

Just since 2020, Disney has dealt with political controversies including its response to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill , its theme park re-openings located in two states with polar opposite COVID safety protocols, its firing of Gina Carano from “The Mandalorian” over some of her social media posts and its re-theming of Splash Mountain in the wake of a nationwide racial justice reckoning after the killing of George Floyd.

But no matter what the company does – or doesn’t do – seemingly half of the

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