Posted on 04/18/2022 10:32:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
The message to woke corporations is loud and clear: Stand up to your loud, spoiled, woke kiddo employees or take the real-world lumps.
Disney’s public exercise in self-destruction is one of the best things to come of the dust-up over Florida’s very moderate Parental Rights in Education law. It’s created essential transparency for a moment. The nation now is becoming aware of Disney’s grooming proclivities on multiple fronts, and the very real threat the one-time beacon of American capitalism poses to children.
And further, there is a blinking neon lesson for the wokeist corporations that they cannot win in these situations, as both Republican and Democratic events have been canceled at Disney for opposite ends of the same issue. Perhaps corporations could actually return to being non-political, although to do so would be to have the spine to ignore their propaganda-addled younger employees.
That lesson may be too late for Disney as the reality is settling in for many people that the company’s left turn is not a new shift for Walt’s legacy. Disney was woke long before the term entered the vernacular. The outlines were visible with Disney’s purchase of ESPN when it acquired Capital Cities/ABC in 1996. Within a few years, ESPN began infusing more and more of its sports coverage with social justice commentary, seeds that have blossomed into a forest of wokeness at the sports network that has turned off hundreds of thousands of sports fans. Disney also owns the rights, through ABC and ESPN, for NBA games—not coincidentally the wokest of all American sports.
For Disney, the sick end of wokeness goes deep. In 2014, CNN reported that Disney had a “child sex predator” problem through a series of stories highlighting the unusually high number of arrests and convictions in the previous years. Those stories are now being revisited—though not by CNN—and likely there is more investigative reporting underway by conservative outlets to see what those numbers look like since then.
The reality is that the public schools targeted by Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law—the ones about which Disney doth protest too much—have a documented problem with grooming. The inimitable Christopher Rufo has uncovered several instances of this in the public schools, all documents readily available to any—any—member of the media who is not interested in shoving them down the memory hole.
In 2014, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office published a 72-page report warning the public of the known risk of child predators in public schools. The report explained the grooming—which sounds eerily like what Florida’s law is trying to stop—and recommended that teachers be monitored for such “grooming behaviors” that held the potential for sexual misconduct and abuse. The report mentions the words “groom” or “grooming” 13 times.
In 2017, the U.S. Department of Education published a report warning that public school employees “groom” children which leads to committing “sexual misconduct” against 10 percent of all K-12 students. In 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed actual “anti-grooming legislation” that expanded the definition of the word “grooming” and forced all Illinois public schools to adopt stronger policies to protect students from teacher sexual misconduct. Illinois got no pushback from the rainbow crowd.
In reality, Florida lawmakers have taken a very modest step in trying to contain a known problem, prompting Disney to side publicly with some of the most vile tactics used against children. That action is coming with a huge price tag. In addition to untold thousands unsubscribing from the Hulu and Disney+ streaming services, and whatever the toll may be on its theme parks, Disney has nuked the good will it enjoyed with governments at every level. There are now two very possible results of this colossal PR blunder.
First, almost assuredly Republicans will retake the House in November when Disney’s special character copyrights are up for renewal. With the GOP in charge, it now seems unlikely that Disney will continue to enjoy that special status as leadership likely will not vote to extend the copyrights on Mickey Mouse and other iconic characters, and few Democrats will come to Disney’s aid. That is a giant intellectual property loss to the company that will balloon into the billions of dollars in coming years.
Second, few people until recently were aware that Disney World essentially is a government unto itself. Disney has a special status in Florida as its own local governing entity that sets its own land-use rules while at the same time the state provides it with extra tax exemptions. Those special privileges are now at risk—a risk that was zero in January. It’s not like Disney World can pick up and move its $2 billion property investment elsewhere. Plus, it has plans for significantly more development and expansions.
Bottom line, Disney has everything to lose and now, because it is vowing to stop political donations, it has no leverage. This is a financial and political disaster and the full results of it may not be known for years.
Disney locked in the animosity from the Right when CEO Bob Chapek groveled, apologized, and pledged to “be a better ally for the LGBTQ+ community” like he was in a hostage video, then went further to say Disney would fight to overturn Florida’s modest law. That is when Governor Ron DeSantis said that Disney had “crossed the line” and it became clear all those special statuses were in jeopardy.
Conservatives, however, misunderstand the situation if they think the blowback against Disney originates from the Right only. They need to realize that the Left remains upset at what it considers Disney’s timid initial response to the parental rights bill. The Florida Democratic Party’s Leadership Blue Gala, its biggest annual fundraiser, was just canceled at Disney and moved to the Marriott in Tampa.
The president of the Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus called the decision to hold the fundraiser at Disney “tone deaf” and he was happy with the change. “We appreciated at the time that FDP [Florida Democratic Party] heard everyone’s concerns and moved Leadership Blue away from Disney,” said Stephen Gaskill.
Disney may take a long time to figure out how to come back from this self-inflicted carnage. But other major U.S. corporations can learn: Stand up to your loud, spoiled, woke kiddo employees or take the real-world lumps.
My 4 year old Granddaughter and I were watching Go Dog Go when my wife nudged me and said “Notice that cute puppy has two Moms?” Last time we watch anything Disney. Dang, this crap is everywhere.
Take a close look at the commercials you see on TV.
Many ads feature gay and lesbian ‘couples’, subtly stated .................
We must not let up, We must keep the pressure and the boycott on until it goes broke.
My guess, though, is that after a year we’ll go back to it just like so many conservatives, including freepers, have done with NFL.
The left succeeds because they are relentless in the pursuit of their goal. We fail because we think that winning a small battle is the same as winning the war.
“Many ads feature gay and lesbian ‘couples’, subtly stated .................”
Not to mention mixed race couples. The destruction of the white race through miscegination is another of their goals.
It’s everywhere. Most commercials, tv shows, and movies.
If blacks have so much pride in their race, they should try sticking to their own.
It may just be that there just aren’t enough wholesome families with young children who care about wholesome values anymore. And Disney is becoming unaffordable for young families as well.
Disney parks now are attended more and more by childless woke millenials and Gen Z. So perhaps this is just Disney’s new base.
I’ve gone to Disneyland with my kids once a year for the past 25 years. The last trip—last year—there were FAR FEWER strollers and kids.
Public schools and its teachers need robust video surveillance, with all words and actions recorded and stored for no less than 7 years.
“If blacks have so much pride in their race, they should try sticking to their own.”
The sad and depressing truth is that miscegination is being pushed mostly by rich, guilt ridden self-loathing WHITES in power - Politicos, CEOs or education admins. I don’t think the blacks are doing much of the pushing.
Most of the ads you see are of corporations run by whites.
Disney probably makes more money from toy sales than anything. We should boycott all Disney toys, period!............... 😐
White women are stupid.
I no longer feel sorry when they get punched in the face or abandoned with a baby that looks nothing like them, and will hate them when they get older.
You don’t see white men doing the same thing.
Disney has misread things terribly.
https://news.yahoo.com/poll-only-52-of-democrats-oppose-floridas-dont-say-gay-policy-214144683.html
“Go woke and go broke” is a real thing but as we are witnessing with the Twitter spat between the “board” and Elon Musk the left is willing to cut off a limb to achieve victory - shareholders be damned.
Should be easy to boycott. There is nothing essential/vital/critical that they sell that people cannot survive or live without. Further, alternatives are abundant and attainable.
So true. I don't watch much television, but when I see the commercials, I don't understand this fantasy-land which they depict. Homo couples, mixed race couples (Negro man/White woman always), freaks with mutilated bodies.
Television commercials are about weird self-absorbed people who worship themselves. And everyone on television commercials appear to be mentally ill. If I saw anyone like this in my county, I'd call the sheriff.
Thankfully there are still some Easter European countries that are not buying into this mental derangement.
Disney went woke long long ago with the real actor movies. The themes of many of those movies was addled parents tell kid(s)not to do X. Kids, (teehee) do X anyway and go on a most wonderful adventure.
When kids return, addled parents welcome them home with no consequences for disobedience.
I remember one of my lib leaning daughters pulled her kids out of a Disney movie( Oliver Twist?) and demanded her money back, saying no child should be shown such crap.
Nowadays many of the 20 to 40 year olds are singing “tommorow belongs to us”.
One of my grandchildren, schooled at U.C. Davis and Berkeley, flips out hate for the patriarchy and brags about her generation’s power over the older generations.
Talk about grooming.
This past year, I discovered that the ENTIRE agenda of the Democrat Party and some prominent Republicans is the promotion of homosexuality and all types of perversion. EVERYTHING is framed in that context and nothing else matters to them. The perversion is institutional. I fear God....
Tell her WE have all the money and our time. We are not afraid........................
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