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2022-03-12 -Great Cultural Revolution
Disney suspends political giving in Florida after ‘Don’t say gay’ bill outrage
Senior management are paid the big bucks on the assumption that they have deeper insight and better strategic thinking than us lesser-paid peons. The bill says not for ages pre-K to grade 3, and thereafter in age-appropriate terms. Don’t Say Gay is false othering propaganda of the vilest, most desperate sort, and it bodes poorly for the company’s profitability that these people are at the helm.
[IsraelTimes] Entertainment and theme park giant Disney has halted all political donations in Florida after an outcry among LGBTQ staff over its silence on perceived "anti-gay" legislation, its CEO says.

Florida’s State Senate this week passed a bill banning lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools, the latest effort by Republicans in the United States to reshape education policy along conservative lines.

Opponents and LGBTQ rights activists lobbied against what they call the "Don’t Say Gay" law, which will affect kids in kindergarten through third grade, when they are eight or nine years old.

Disney, which has a huge presence in the southern state in the form of its Walt Disney World resort, had faced weeks of criticism both internally and externally over its lack of public response.

Chief executive Bob Chapek says he is sorry the company let down its staff, which protested the bill.

"It is clear that this is not just an issue about a bill in Florida, but instead yet another challenge to basic human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
," he writes in an email, published by Variety.

"You needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down. I am sorry."
Resign, then, pederast enabler
Chapek says Disney would be bolstering its support for campaigns aimed at preventing similar legislation in other states, as part of an effort to "ensure our advocacy better reflects our values."

"And today, we are pausing all political donations in the state of Florida pending this review."

Chapek says the company had to do more, but insisted he had the backs of sexual minority staff.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-12 00:37|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Basic Human Rights?

No - its Sexual Grooming - for a life in sexual exploitation.
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-03-12 01:11||   2022-03-12 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Disney could market the bill as "Don't Say Pervy Stuff to Third-Graders Bill", but that gives the game away.
Posted by SteveS 2022-03-12 01:19||   2022-03-12 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Sigh. Let me count the ways...
Posted by Flusort Ebbemp6414 2022-03-12 02:16||   2022-03-12 02:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Like an 'economic sanction' on legislators doing the right thing. Right?
Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-12 03:52||   2022-03-12 03:52|| Front Page Top

#5 More evidence of the generational decline of businesses and empires.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-12 05:45||   2022-03-12 05:45|| Front Page Top

#6 They should be Chastened

"I pledge my heart to the rainbow of the not so typical gay camp, to the gay agenda for which it stands. One camp, full of pride, indivisible, with affirmation and equal rights for all."
Posted by Jack Is Back 2022-03-12 06:54||   2022-03-12 06:54|| Front Page Top

#7 If the Trunks take back Congress among the first agenda items should be -

1. return to the old copyright of 14 years with another 14 year extension for the individual artist.

2. force interstate distribution of cable and satellite to an a'la carte offering, bundles become only an option.

Of course the Unity Party being what it is, they'll sell out to those who hate them.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-12 08:07||   2022-03-12 08:07|| Front Page Top

#8 At this point I'd be fine with a complete ban on corporate money in politics, but you know they would find a million ways around it no matter what any law might say.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-12 08:44||   2022-03-12 08:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Disney, which has a huge presence in the southern state in the form of its Walt Disney World resort, had faced weeks of criticism both internally and externally over its lack of public response.

Eh? Had a direct line to DeSantis lobbying for against "Don't Rape Babies".

In fact, I'm starting to wonder if their park is a glamorous Chester Molester Van. I posted the other day how Everyday Mom wondered if there was an alternate ID process rather than have her daughter's photo taken, and The Agents brought the hammer on her, "How dare you even suggest we can't track your children!"

How's China taste? Pretty tolerant of the gays?
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-12 10:44||   2022-03-12 10:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Pretty sure what it would be called if you came home from the movie and the babysitter has your 8 year old naked on the couch.

But because it is in a school.....its somehow not just OK, but better?

Do go on.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-12 10:46||   2022-03-12 10:46|| Front Page Top

#11 I believe all this was predicted when Disney bought out a movie company and began producing R rated movies.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-03-12 10:51||   2022-03-12 10:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Disney can virtue signal all they want but until they institute Drag Queen Story Time at every last one of their theme parks it all rings hollow.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-12 10:52||   2022-03-12 10:52|| Front Page Top

#13 I remember hearing that Disney had considerable clout in Florida, or at least in the local counties. Are they offering to quit buying politicians?
Posted by james  2022-03-12 13:17|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2022-03-12 13:17|| Front Page Top

#14 Disney World is a very large Tourist attraction in Orlando, FL. Lots of tourist industry which is a big FL moneymaker.

When Disney starts talking about moving Disney World out of Florida and into some blue hellhole enclave like NY, OR or WA - its all just virtual signaling.
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-03-12 13:41||   2022-03-12 13:41|| Front Page Top

#15 Blue state land is too expensive for The Rodent to leave OrIando
Posted by Porthos 2022-03-12 14:42||   2022-03-12 14:42|| Front Page Top

#16 Also the weather.
Posted by SteveS 2022-03-12 14:57||   2022-03-12 14:57|| Front Page Top

#17 Orlando and Orange County are to Florida as Las Vegas is to Nevada, a blue bruise surrounded by red, thanks to the unionized hospitality industry workers. It's the home of the Demings political crime family.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-12 15:28||   2022-03-12 15:28|| Front Page Top

#18 Wonder if this includes newest Florida resident Nancy Pelosi?
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-12 15:39||   2022-03-12 15:39|| Front Page Top

#19 ^ Fake news
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-12 15:49||   2022-03-12 15:49|| Front Page Top

#20 Ah. Thank you.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-12 15:58||   2022-03-12 15:58|| Front Page Top

#21 There is NO way they can leave the land they have in Florida. That's like saying New York City will pick up and move to Alabama.

They have unique legal arrangements there, some of the land was purchased with some interesting riders attached (legend is an Ivy League school is still waiting for Disney to drill for oil), and they've built infrastructure that rivals most cities.

They have their own water treatment, natural gas, and electrical systems, drainage/flood control, and even an area dedicated to safe storage of explosives (for fireworks).

There's an entire office building buried underneath the Magic Kingdom park -- and that structure alone qualifies as a wonder of the modern world.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-12 18:30||   2022-03-12 18:30|| Front Page Top

#22 I'd like to know, these donations.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-12 19:06||   2022-03-12 19:06|| Front Page Top

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