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Chris Rufo is to Woke what Devin Nunes was to the Russia collusion crap.

Disney Is Interested in Your Kids

The entertainment company pledges to embed radical sexual politics in its children’s programming.
Christopher F. Rufo
March 30, 2022

Last year, I reported on Disney’s critical race theory–based diversity program, which taught employees that America 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.

Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

https://www.city-journal.org/d...-ideological-capture

What are the ages, politics, and social attitudes of the majority of parents with Disney aged kids nowadays? I have a feeling Disney would not do this without doing research on how it would effect their image with their actual consumers.

I have a feeling the people most pissed off about this are the people who would be the least likely to spend money at Disney anyway.

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What are the ages, politics, and social attitudes of the majority of parents with Disney aged kids nowadays?

It's a good point.
They have spent the last 20 years slowly but deliberately alienating those with more traditional and conservative views.
They can't lose me because they already have.
Who is left? The woke.

It felt good to cancel my Disney+ account.

SHHHHHHHHHHHH. When your opponent is making a mistake get out of the way.

Law makers are looking at revoking Disney's self governing status.

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Who is left? The woke.

Perhaps, but who is really 'the woke'. They're younger people primarily, those who have been successfully indoctrinated in public school and college. Statistically, these people aren't marrying and having children as prior generations have. They are also poorer as a group than more conservative leaning demos are (and Disney vacations and products aren't cheap). As a 'thinking/intelligent' CEO or senior manager at Disney, I would not wish to hang my corporate profits and growth on that particular demo. Personally, I think Disney, just like Gillette, is out over their skis, and is looking at a huge face plant coming to them. I hope it comes soon, I hope its incredibly painful, and I hope a large group of Disney higher ups lose their jobs as a result of it.

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Law makers are looking at revoking Disney's self governing status.

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For those living outside Florida, you have no idea just how big a deal this is. This Act made Disney all but autonomous in Florida, and excluded them from almost any state or local law they didn't really feel they wanted to deal with. Revoking or substantially changing this piece of legislation would be devastating to the way Disney has been able to function over decades. 'This' is the way you get serious with the liberal garbage running Disney corporate, and I'm all for it.

Disney executives are so out of touch that they are astounded that not everyone believes we should be catering to these particular brands of mental illness. When it impacts their bottom line they will get the message. I am convinced that this wokeism bullshit has just about run its course. The 1% tail should not be wagging the dog. I do not want my Florida grandchildren in grade school being taught this LBGTQABC.... shit.

Thank God we have Governor DeSantis to put his foot down for common sense. I like him better every day.

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Law makers are looking at revoking Disney's self governing status.

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Good. Once you start hitting these assholes where it hurts, the pocketbook, all this Woke crap will get dialed WAAAAY back. You watch.

Money is the only thing that transcends all else.

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That woman is "the mother of two queer children". One is supposedly a tranny and the other "pansexual"...whatever that is. This woman shouldn't be a corporate president, she should be an inmate. Child abuse plain and simple.

Karey Burke is Disney's Corporate President.

“They always eat their own.” TM

Just what I want my grandchildren to see...Cinderella standing at the urinal. Or would that be Cinderfella?

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Most of their movies now are PG. I was watching Top Gun the other day for the 100th time to figure out how to get it to our kids without the profanity (when I had seen it a dozen times by the time I was 10, but thats another thing). In 1986 Top Gun was PG. Why can't movie places just make G movies for kids and let kids be kids?

To be fair, the "bar" for PG has been greatly lowered over the past several decades.

Nowadays, things like tobacco use, impolite language (not even profanity), or depicting characters in peril (not even violence/gore) can be enough to earn a PG rating.

I wonder what percentage of parents want their K-3 children learning about sex ed, gender studies, and alternative life styles? I can't imagine it's more than 20%, and I'd hope it's less than 5%.

Evil is truly at work and winning more and more ground. This is just another wicked bunch of garbage to shove down our throats and like it. The few mentally ill with power, showing how quick they will destroy our family values. With the regime in power now and no one to oppose it, this will only get worse. I don't think we have seen the tip of the iceberg yet. It will only get worse.

As far as the PG thing, I've read that it's because R-rated movies are a no-no in China and these whores aren't about to make movies they can't make money off of in China.

Well, we're going to find out experimentally.

Remember how everyone thought Nike was committing financial Suicide by using Colin Kaepernick in it's ads? Didn't work out that way. Nike's stock price had almost tripled since then until the current broad market pull back, and are still more than double.

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/24/...ck-boycott-6-billion

Times are a changin'

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Originally posted by patw:
Evil is truly at work and winning more and more ground. This is just another wicked bunch of garbage to shove down our throats and like it. The few mentally ill with power, showing how quick they will destroy our family values. With the regime in power now and no one to oppose it, this will only get worse. I don't think we have seen the tip of the iceberg yet. It will only get worse.

I’ll say it before Para does. WTF? Are we really already defeated? Shall we all just go home to our bunkers and await the comet? I believe the Virginia election last November clearly demonstrates that the quickest way to piss of and wake up people is to threaten parents and their children.

This fight is nowhere near over, but only just beginning. I wish everybody would stow the defeatist attitudes. If parent’s perception of Disney turns from wholesome to threatening, Disney will find themselves bleeding red in a hurry. It would only take a 10% reduction in their revenue to put them in a world of hurt. Ten percent isn’t that many pissed off parents to bring the pain.