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Disney Is Interested in Your Kids
City Journal ^ | March 30, 2022 | Christopher F. Rufo

Posted on 03/30/2022 1:41:28 PM PDT by Heartlander

Disney Is Interested in Your Kids

The entertainment company pledges to embed radical sexual politics in its children’s programming.

Last year, I reported on Disney’s critical race theory–based diversity program, which taught employees that American was founded on “systemic racism,” separated minorities into racially segregated “affinity groups,” and encouraged white employees to complete a “white privilege checklist.” Now, I have obtained exclusive video from inside Disney that outlines its campaign to embed left-wing sexual politics into its children’s programming and entertainment facilities.

In the wake of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation, which prevents public schools from promoting gender ideology in kindergarten through third grade but which critics call the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Disney executives organized an all-hands meeting, called the “Reimagine Tomorrow Conversation Series,” and pledged to mobilize the entire corporation in service of the “LGBTQIA+ community.” Executives recruited the company’s most intersectional employees, including a “black, queer, and trans person,” a “bi-romantic asexual,” and “the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child,” and announced ambitious new initiatives—seeking to change everything from gender pronouns at the company’s theme parks to the sexual orientation of background characters in the company’s films.

In a featured presentation at the meeting, executive producer Latoya Raveneau laid out Disney’s ideology in blunt terms. She said her team was implementing a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and regularly “adding queerness” to children’s programming. Another speaker, production coordinator Allen Martsch, said his team has created a “tracker” to ensure that they are creating enough “canonical trans characters, canonical asexual characters, [and] canonical bisexual characters.” Corporate president Karey Burke said she supported having “many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories” and reaffirmed the company’s pledge to make at least 50 percent of its on-screen characters sexual and racial minorities.

The ideological campaign also extended to the company’s theme parks in Anaheim and Orlando. As diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware explained, Disney made the decision last year to eliminate all mentions of “ladies,” “gentlemen,” “boys,” and “girls” in order to create “that magical moment” for children who do not identify with traditional gender roles. “We don’t want to just assume because someone might be, in our interpretation, presenting as female, that they may not want to be called ‘princess,’” Ware said. By eliminating “gendered greetings,” Disney believes, the company can help make it “magical and memorable for everyone.”

Finally, Disney hosted Nadine Smith, the executive director of a pressure group called Equality Florida, who told employees that Governor Ron DeSantis and his press secretary, Christina Pushaw, wanted to “erase you,” “criminalize your existence,” and “take your kids”—a wild conspiracy theory with no basis in fact. The company’s executives threw their full weight behind Equality Florida’s effort, promising to use its significant political and financial resources to repeal the Parental Rights in Education law and the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which prohibits public and private institutions from racialist discrimination and abuse in classrooms and the workplace.

Last year, after my report on Disney’s critical race theory training program, Disney quickly deleted it from the company’s internal servers. But executives did not abandon identity politics. In fact, they added another component—gender ideology—and ramped it up. Executives have empowered activists within the company and now seem unable to resist their demands. Observers should watch Disney closely in the coming years. However the story ends, the company looks like a case study in ideological capture.


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To: Heartlander

Disney is evil. Plain and simple.


21 posted on 03/30/2022 2:16:44 PM PDT by Obadiah ("America is facing a winter of illness and death." The summary of America under Biden.)
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To: Heartlander

“Observers should watch Disney closely in the coming years. However the story ends, the company looks like a case study in ideological capture.”

DeSantis is up nearly +20 in Florida, a state where being +5 would be excellent for a Republican. And, other than the soccer moms who want their kids genitals mutilated, I suspect a lot of people respect the hell out of DeSantis, simply because he won’t back down. Reagan was able to do the same, and of course Trump did similar, but he offset much of that by giving ammo to his enemies.


22 posted on 03/30/2022 2:23:38 PM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to recruit children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: PhineasSpear

And “Satyricon”, “Caligula” ( Yes, THAT version ), “Cruising”, the Nazisploitation films, just to name a few sexual depravity films.


23 posted on 03/30/2022 2:24:58 PM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: PhineasSpear

Once you see that film (Salo) you cannot unsee it.


24 posted on 03/30/2022 2:25:37 PM PDT by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: Clemenza

How right you are!


25 posted on 03/30/2022 2:29:59 PM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: Heartlander
which taught employees that American was founded

American?

American what?

Did this Jacobite mean "AMERICA"?

And was maybe too drunk and stuck an extra letter on there?

26 posted on 03/30/2022 2:30:57 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: PhineasSpear

I have never heard of the first film, and I never saw the second, did it star Miley Cyrus by chance?


27 posted on 03/30/2022 2:32:10 PM PDT by algore
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To: SmokingJoe
Just stop watching Disney films or going to their parked.

Their parked what?

Parked cars?

28 posted on 03/30/2022 2:34:29 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: algore

Praying these perverts go bankrupt


29 posted on 03/30/2022 2:51:16 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: DCBryan1

Go to Universal Studios and then go stay at a beach hotel. Cheaper than a Disney trip.


30 posted on 03/30/2022 3:39:31 PM PDT by Tea Drinker (Live From Sunny Tucson)
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To: Tea Drinker

31 posted on 03/30/2022 4:12:36 PM PDT by Brookhaven (Ted Cruz said Jan. 6 was terrorism)
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To: packagingguy

It’s mind boggling isn’t it? Pretty much 95% at least of their customer base are parents of young and very young children. Someone needs to ask Lin-Manuel Miranda how he feels about transgenderism being taught in kindergarten. This could turn out to be the greatest brand suicide of all time.


32 posted on 03/30/2022 5:02:21 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: humblegunner

Parks as in amusement parks


33 posted on 03/30/2022 5:54:08 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Heartlander; algore; butlerweave; SmokingJoe; TChad; PGR88; Ford4000; packagingguy; Scarlett156; ...

Disney brands list (partial)

Major media brands:
Disney — dozens of brands and venues
Walt Disney — multiple brands

A&E
ABC
ESPN
Fox (except FoxNews)
Hulu
Marvel
National Geographic (part owner)

Production and cable:
20th Century Fox
Black Rock Studio
Blue Sky Studios
Buena Vista
Fall Line Studios
FamilyFun
Go.com
Greengrass Productions
Hollywood Pictures
It’s a Laugh Productions
Junction Point Studios
Live Well
Lucas
Muppets Studio
Pixar
Searchlight Pictures
Soapnet
Touchstone
Wideload Games
Wondertime magazine

34 posted on 03/31/2022 5:46:00 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thank you.


35 posted on 03/31/2022 9:32:33 PM PDT by Obadiah ("America is facing a winter of illness and death." The summary of America under Biden.)
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To: Albion Wilde

That’s a lot of voodoo dolls to make, there.


36 posted on 04/01/2022 5:04:06 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (I dont go on Discord as the last time I did, the guys spying on me/Mr K were talking about it. (BTW))
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To: Clemenza

“Once you see that film (Salo) you cannot unsee it.”

Haha, you’re right about that.


37 posted on 04/01/2022 5:06:05 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (I dont go on Discord as the last time I did, the guys spying on me/Mr K were talking about it. (BTW))
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To: Heartlander

Not just Disney.

The same Big Med that pushes CoupFlu vaxxes and muzzles for kids, will be hand in glove with Deep State on this, too.

And will make money mutilating and abusing children.


38 posted on 04/01/2022 5:11:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: algore

“Satyricon” was a Fellini film, one of his weirdest.


39 posted on 04/01/2022 7:08:55 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: PhineasSpear

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Xqnmk5Zic


40 posted on 04/01/2022 7:33:57 AM PDT by algore
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