'Deconstructing Disney'

I just read an incredible book called 'Deconstructing Disney' in which every Disney film since 'The Little Mermaid' is decoded as being a sinister furtherance of the 'American colonial project'. TLM was about the Soviet Union (Triton) having its bad debts wiped by the USA (Prince Eric) and about Disney invading Europe. Beauty and the Beast was anti-French, with Belle and Maurice representing the poor misunderstood Americans who wanted to give them Euro-Disney. Aladdin was propaganda for the first Gulf War, with wise Arab states (Aladdin) accepting the help of the (American) Genie in preference to their benighted Oriental ways. The Lion King was a racist piece with African-Americans cast as the hyenas. Pocahontas proposed moral equivalence between the native Americans and the invaders who came to take their land. (Now there I think they do have a small point.) Toy Story was pro-consumerist, Sid's cardinal sin being to violate the brand image of toys. Etc etc etc, I kid you not.
My jaw hit the floor pretty soon. Sure it was possible to read all the films that way, but only on condition of seeing nothing but politics everywhere; artistic merit and personal moral values are clearly just a distraction from the real puppet game of capitalism, according to these writers.
Myself I think all but the worst Disney films transcend consumerism, in that one wants to watch them loads of times and allow them to sink into one's personal cultural mulch, rather than throwing them away and moving addictively on to the next one. The merchandise and the theme parks are mostly sick-making, but a discerning customer is at liberty to ignore those.
What do other users think?