As Twitchy reported, Disney CEO Bob Chapek got himself into really hot water with Disney employees by not vocally opposing Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill. He did eventually call Gov. Ron DeSantis to express his “disappointment” and “concern” and sent an apology email to staff for not speaking up sooner, but that didn’t stop employees from staging a walkout. Now the bill is law and Disney says it “remains committed” to seeing the law repealed.
To soothe the hysterical employees, Disney held an all-hands video conference, and Christopher Rufo has obtained footage. Disney really is dedicated to promoting queerness — no wonder they want kindergarteners taught about gender identity.
SCOOP: I've obtained video from inside Disney's all-hands meeting about the Florida parental rights bill, in which executive producer Latoya Raveneau says her team has implemented a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" and is regularly "adding queerness" to children's programming. pic.twitter.com/eJnZMpKIXT
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
SCOOP: Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, "as the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child," she supports having "many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories" and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities. pic.twitter.com/oFRUiuu9JG
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
exactly what I wrote,
activists in Disney have been given tremendous influence inside the company https://t.co/dPBAqfMINB
— Peter Pischke-Friendly Neighborhood Journo (@HappyWarriorP) March 29, 2022
Screenshot pic.twitter.com/A33CS49W5v
— Andy Olivastro (@andyolivastro) March 29, 2022
I think it's fine for groups to be represented in proportion to their prevalence in society as a whole. But any company that insists on systematically _overrepresenting_ any groups is trying to do social engineering through the 'availability heuristic', as psychologists call it.
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) March 29, 2022
Recommended
By all means make 50% of characters LGBQT when they represent >3% of population. Great business model. Thank God for Walt’s classics!
— MZ4Trump (@Mz4Trump) March 29, 2022
Anything less than 100% is unacceptable
— SkepticalInvestor 🙊 (@95hoo) March 29, 2022
Why stop there? I think ALL Disney characters should be gay and all K-3rd grade teachers should concentrate on convincing their students they are gay or transsexuals instead of that stupid reading, writing & arithmetic teaching crap we've wasted our time on.
Liberal nirvana
— Don Hubbard (@Dbruce2Don) March 29, 2022
Is the agenda promoting, recruiting and converting instead of protecting and respecting individual choice?
— Darias News (@DariasNews1) March 29, 2022
https://twitter.com/DucomJulie/status/1508922264422473729
Hello, Charles Schwab, I’d like to place a sell order.
— Warren Pomphrey (@WPomphrey) March 29, 2022
Disney is bound to learn eventually that the shareholders call the shots, not every low-level employee with an activist agenda.
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Update:
But wait, there’s more:
SCOOP: Disney's activism partner Nadine Smith of Equality Florida tells LGBTQ employees that @GovRonDeSantis and @ChristinaPushaw want to "erase you, "criminalize your existence," and "take your kids"—a wild conspiracy theory that Republicans want to kidnap gay people's children. pic.twitter.com/Ger3a2xekI
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
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Update:
There’s even more! Can you imagine sitting through this meeting?
SCOOP: Disney production coordinator Allen March says his team is committed to "exploring queer stories" and has created a "tracker" to make sure they are creating enough "gender nonconforming characters," "canonical trans characters," and "canonical bisexual characters." pic.twitter.com/ddSzw4aqQv
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
SCOOP: Disney diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware says the company has eliminated all mentions of "ladies," "gentlemen," "boys," and "girls" in its theme parks in order to create "that magical moment" for children who do not identify with traditional gender roles. pic.twitter.com/OWsGTUoeCA
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
And it’s still not enough.
Think twice before you allow these moral nitwits to inject their code of values into your child https://t.co/lNTSZ1lLZn
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 29, 2022
Related:
For the children: Disney says they ‘remain committed’ to getting the ”Don’t Say Gay” bill repealed https://t.co/E5XNpVhYpy
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 28, 2022
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