Posted on 03/25/2022 12:12:27 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Conservative Disney employees have had enough abuse from their progressive colleagues. They feel as though they are under attack for their beliefs as the controversy over H.B.1557, Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill continues to play out. They published an unsigned letter this week slamming their colleagues for creating an ‘increasingly uncomfortable’ work environment.
The bill is also known as the Don’t Say Gay bill by its opponents. Conservative employees asked that the company remain politically neutral in the open letter. They are frustrated by CEO Bob Chapek’s flip flop over getting in involved in the opposition to the bill. At first, when criticized by progressives for not weighing in quickly, he said, “As we have seen time and time again, corporate statements do very little to change outcomes or minds. Instead, they are often weaponized by one side or the other to further divide and inflame.” Then he caved to LGBTQ activists. Chapek spoke out against H.B.1557 at a shareholders’ meeting after the bill was passed. He announced a pause on political donations in Florida and promised that Disney would contribute millions of dollars more to LGBTQ causes. He also said he would meet with Governor DeSantis to voice his and Disney’s opposition to the bill. He didn’t just flip on his response, he cannonballed into the controversy. What a moronic move.
Conservative employees say that they have become invisible within the company.
The employees heaped praise on Disney, noting that “our work contributes to a fountain of wonder that inspires joy, awe, and delight in guests and audiences of all ages.” However, they warned that “over the last few years, one group of cast members has become invisible within the company.”
“The Walt Disney Company has come to be an increasingly uncomfortable place to work for those of us whose political and religious views are not explicitly progressive,” the employees wrote. “We watch quietly as our beliefs come under attack from our own employer, and we frequently see those who share our opinions condemned as villains by our own leadership.”
The employees noted Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow” campaign to promote “underrepresented voices” and noted that “the tomorrow being reimagined doesn’t seem to have much room for religious or political conservatives within the company. Left-leaning cast members are free to promote their agenda and organize on company time using company resources. They call their fellow employees ‘bigots’ and pressure TWDC to use corporate influence to further their left-wing legislative goals.”
The employees recounted their experience with an internal poll “asking us if we felt accepted in the company.”
“Many of us didn’t complete it because the nature of the questions made us worry that the results of the poll could be used to target us for quietly holding a position that runs against the progressive orthodoxy that Disney seems to promote,” the employees wrote. “TWDC has fostered an environment of fear that any employee who does not toe the line will be exposed and dismissed.”
It is understandable that they would be concerned about retaliation for not conforming to progressive views, especially when it comes to sexual agendas and the LGBTQ community. There is no room for differing opinions and there are few companies who remain silent on any political issue these days. There are consequences for being bold enough to disagree with groupthink.
The conservative employees remind Disney that not all of their customers are progressives. Eventually, they will feel as unwelcome as conservative employees do now and go elsewhere with their entertainment dollars. They state a mistake I have never understood why companies continue to make – by taking progressive political stances, the general public takes that to mean the entire company is of those opinions and it kills at least a percentage of that company’s business. We live in a deeply divided country. Businesses have to at least pretend to welcome conservatives as well as progressives in order to survive. Excluding one demographic is financial suicide.
Employees who want TWDC to make left-wing political statements are encouraged, while those of us who want the company to remain neutral can say so only in a whisper out of fear of professional retaliation. The company we love seems to think we don’t exist or don’t belong here. This politicization of our corporate culture is damaging morale and causing many of us to feel our days with TWDC might be numbered.
Furthermore, as this politicization makes its way into our content and public messaging, our more conservative customers will feel similarly unwanted. You can only preach at or vilify your audience for so long before they decide to spend their money elsewhere.
Progressive Disney employees staged a walk-out this week. Their demands line up perfectly with the remarks Bob Chapek delivered to shareholders. He followed orders from them.
Opponents mischaracterize the bill. They say it is an anti-gay bill when what it actually does is prohibit teachers of school children in kindergarten through third grade from discussing explicit sexual subjects in the classroom. It is a deliberate campaign to smear conservative lawmakers in Florida, especially Governor DeSantis, before the midterm elections and then the 2024 presidential election. Democrats are nervous that DeSantis may run for president. If he did, he’d have a good chance of being successful – he’s Trump without the baggage. He’s articulate and doesn’t back down from confronting his critics. After four years of bumbling, feeble Joe Biden, voters will be hungry for a change.
Disney was once called the happiest place on earth. Unfortunately, the Age of Wokeism is ending that claim. Families notice when a company looks the other way and lets woke employees run the place. If conservatives who hold opinions different than those of activist progressives no longer feel welcomed in a place like Disney World, they will take their business elsewhere.
They think they matter? Disney was woke before that was even a word.
Progressives say that others must tolerate them so they must tolerate others as well.
A Disney Conservative must be an employee who wont have sex with a child under 17.
Off topic, but I have wondered about this law.
I’ve heard it bans talk of transgender and homosexuality from preK to 3rd grade.
What exactly is bad about such a law? Why are the liberals in meltdown mode over this? Why the meltdown over a law which tries to shield young children from these sexual matters?
Or look at another way, why are the liberals clearly in favor of wanting to teach young children all this stuff?
Off topic somewhat, but I have wondered why the activists went into full meltdown mode on this specific law?
Disney has been a refuge for child molesters for decades. Eff Disney.
Bill doesn’t mention homosexuals. It says you cannot teach age inappropriate material to 3rd grade and below and more importantly gives parents a legal avenue to punish teachers and administrations that do so.
This ain’t Walt’s Disney.
What is TWDC?
Too many orphaned acronyms.
The Walt Disney Corporation.
The no-gay-indoctrination bill does not go far enough. What makes perversion any more teachable in 4th grade than 3rd? Zero tax money should be spent on pervert sex education at any grade level.
Disney is already verboten in my DILs house. She despises the commercial marketing and licensing toys.
The content is an issue too
This is one of Karen's better moments in print. The truth is, Disney 'cast members', which is what they call their base employees, from gift shop cashiers to the costumed avatars, are ridiculously LButtGPTBQLMOP, because these motards are willing to work for 'cast member' salary (28K bitchnazz! Gotta live 4 to an apartment to pull that off LOFL).
Most discover in their first year there is a glass ceiling to advancement. Why? Because middle management is hired elsewhere. And -- this goes back to Walt -- the bulk of middle management at FL DW/MK properties leans right-of-center, precisely because that is what it takes to keep the thumb on a bunch of 'cast member's who would rather spend their time on their iPhone scheduling Andrew Gillum-style meth orgies than actually interacting with the public.
Progressives say that others must tolerate them so they must tolerate others as well.
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As with most words, progs have different definitions of words.
‘Repressive tolerance ‘ is the term they use in their Marxist circles.
This vid is the most concise expose of progs and their beliefs and explains what they mean by tolerance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1-q9kxWg
The Architects of Western Decline - The Frankfurt School
Aprox 30 min run time.
“why the activists went into full meltdown”
Because when the ‘activists’ detect that they’ve achieved some milestone in their agenda they will FIGHT LIKE A HONEY BADGER to maintain it. Teaching children inappropriate materials beginning at birth makes it easier for them to normalize their inappropriate behavior. That drives america to the point of collapse societally.
Coinciding with the collapse of the economy will trigger a death spiral for the constitution. That leaves a vacuum for the democrats to implement a full shutdown communist plutocracy.
Thanks, JB. I thought that it might meant “The Woke Disney Company.”
TWDC = The Walt Disney Corporation
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