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-Great Cultural Revolution
Disney CEO Suggests 'Essence of Our Brand' Was Misused in Fight Against Anti-Grooming Bill
2022-09-14
Yes, it was.
[Breitbart] Chapek said:

These are complex social issues where we absolutely, positively want to represent the needs and the expectations of our cast members, but we also realize that sometimes in such a divided world, there’s not alignment between what possibly large constituencies of our guest and consumer base are looking for in terms of the kind of content that they want to show their kids at this particular time.

"What we try to do is be everything to everybody. That tends to be very difficult because we’re the Walt Disney Company," he continued, suggesting that the "essence" of the brand was misused in the company’s battle against parental rights.

"When you’re a lightning rod for clicks and for political podium speeches, the essence of our brand can be misappropriated or misused to try to fit the needs of any one particular group’s agenda. We want to rise above that," the CEO said.

"We also realize that we want to represent a brighter tomorrow for families of all types, regardless of how they define themselves," he added, attempting to walk the line.
Kamala Harris couldn't have mumbled it better.
An April poll from The Federalist/Susquehanna found that most likely voters support laws such as Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law. Perhaps what is more, another survey found that Democrat primary voters in the Sunshine State support the legislation as well.

DeSantis challenger Rep. Charlie Crist
...the politically androgynous former governor of Florida...
 (D-FL), however, evidently stands with Disney, as he described the bill’s final approval as a"grim day." Notably, he has earned an endorsement from the radical organization Equality Florida, which warned of the "chilling" effects of the legislation, highlighting the removal of rainbow safe space stickers from classroom windows.

Related:
Walt Disney: 2022-07-23 Disney World brawl reportedly spurs 2 arrests, bans at Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney: 2022-06-24 Nolte: Child-grooming Backlash — Disney Stock Collapsed Nearly 50% in Year
Walt Disney: 2022-06-18 Disney Bus Driver Among 12 Arrested in Undercover Child Predator Sting
Related:
Chapek: 2022-07-03 Allen & Co. dates, guest list confirmed Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg among invitees
Chapek: 2022-05-19 Disney Debuts New LGBTQ Pride Children's Collection
Chapek: 2022-05-09 Thumbs down on 'woke': 'Disney debacle' lesson for CEOs
Related:
DeSantis: 2022-09-12 'DeSantis activates Florida National Guard to assist corrections officers
DeSantis: 2022-09-05 Gov. DeSantis Calls Biden's Speech 'Disgusting' and 'Disrespectful'
DeSantis: 2022-08-29 And Your Point is...?
Related:
Equality Florida: 2022-02-25 Sponsor of Florida's so-called 'Don't Say Gay' bill defends it against media 'disinformation' narrative
Equality Florida: 2014-06-14 LGBT-rights group Equality Florida Action PAC endorses Democrat Charlie Crist for governor
Posted by:Fred

#30  My theory is all of Screwtape's cousins and uncles and nephews have been unleashed and according to their own hierarchy some get the cops, some the cabbies and some the CEOs.

Nobody gets the politicians of course. Professional courtesy.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-14 22:56  

#29  ^ Shiny side out, please. Otherwise, you are just concentrating the rays.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-09-14 20:42  

#28  But then I have to put on my tin foil hat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-09-14 19:09  

#27  So your theory is that Xi Jinping uses Disney to promote sex change operations for American children in complete disregard for stock market consequences? I sometimes wonder about that myself.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-09-14 19:07  

#26  If they really cared about their stock price, they would not be wading in the filthy pond they have chosen to enter.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-14 18:26  

#25  What we try to do is be everything to everybody.

In other words, having long since abandoned old Walt's vision, Disney Corporation has no moral values of their own so they try to please Xi Jinping and the perverts as well as the traditional families...and then they wonder why everybody is pissed off at them.

Remember the words of Ricky Nelson when he had trouble transitioning from 1950's teen heart throb to late 1960's/early 1970's rock and roll...

Well, it's alright now
I've learned my lesson well
You know you can't please everyone
So you have to please yourself.

But I guess even that is difficult when the only thing that really pleases you is your stock price.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-09-14 18:06  

#24  Surely we know why, but I don't recall any GOPer calling the Dems out on it to put them on the record (not that that matters much).
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-09-14 16:56  

#23  ^ Why would they. The long-term plan always was for it to be part of their indoctrination engine.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-14 16:38  

#22  
Lines and lines of coke,
go into making Whitey woke.
And Marketing, those shits!
They'd be selling tats for tits,
if it weren't for the occasional toke.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-14 16:38  

#21  I always hear swine such as Liz Warren and most other Dems talking about people/entities paying their "fair share" of taxes, but I never heard any Dem complain about Disney's tax-free status in Florida. Funny how that happens.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-09-14 16:34  

#20  My son took his kids to Disneylad (the original) and as near as I could tell mostly the experience was rated 3L: "Lies, lectures and lines".
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-09-14 16:26  

#19  Wow! There are consequences to stupid actions! Who knew?
Posted by: Tom   2022-09-14 15:01  

#18  Hey! Those two are my favourite clay modelled fools!

And thank Gawd, Disney doesn't even get the vibe of Aardman. They refused to include it in their kitty. It's just too entertaining for them.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-14 14:29  

#17  I know Wallace and Gromit are a long ways from The Wrong Trousers, but I hope not GROQMER+ far away. Not that BBC is full of angels. Then again, how many tips and stories and leads were squished by BBC to protect the local sex slave child trade? "Local Story, not our trade" I'm sure.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-14 14:04  

#16  Here's a radical idea. Focus on entertaining people and avoid politics. Fire all of the "woke" managers and produce programs that people will want to watch.

The people pushing the woke agenda don't watch Disney which is why they want to ruin the product.
Posted by: EMS Artifact   2022-09-14 13:42  

#15  I can see it now: Groomer and Wallace.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-14 12:17  

#14  They have done pretty bad stuff, but if the do a grommerized Apple Dumpling Gang reboot, the gloves are coming off.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-09-14 12:05  

#13  I'll bet they'll ruin even that.

California managed to ruin the legal weed business. Do not misunderestimate their ability to make a mess of things.

Having alienated half the population via pervy stuff, Disney will now proceed to piss off the pervy folks with their walk back. Anger and outrage for all!
Posted by: SteveS   2022-09-14 11:04  

#12  Playing both sides of the Woke agenda always ends in business failure. Both the pedos on the woke side and the Christians on the conservative side will boycott. I for one am done with anything Disney, which is sad as I have a lot of very fond memories there from when I was a child.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-09-14 10:50  

#11  Maybe Disney needs to buy into the sex trafficking business.

I'll bet they'll ruin even that.

"He's a small girl, after all!"

We're going to body scan every child who visits. Imagine the compliance!
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-14 10:18  

#10  The entire entertainment sector is going to suffer in the upheaval they have helped to foment.

Let them have what they urged everyone else to vote for. Good. And. Hard.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-14 10:13  

#9  Down 3.98%

Maybe Disney needs to buy into the sex trafficking business.

I'll bet they'll ruin even that.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-14 10:11  

#8  Reason #5,342,775 that I won't give Disney one red cent.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-09-14 09:10  

#7  The law of the land should be: Your company has a responsibility to all legitimate American citizens equally or take your lousy business elsewhere.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-14 08:53  

#6  /\ No worries, it's transitory. You'll see, or perhaps your grandchildren will see.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-14 08:52  

#5  Down 3.98% yesterday to 111.76
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-14 08:50  

#4  How did the mouse fair on yesterday Stock Market dive?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-09-14 08:47  

#3  Walt Disney was a raging anti-Semite

No, he wasn't. That lie was pushed by Soviet agents after he blocked one of theirs from "unionizing" the animators at his studio.

Don't let your anger at the current management lead you to believe leftist garbage about the past.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-09-14 08:20  

#2  Deny them your essence, don’t let them impurify our viral bodily fluids! CEO J.D. Ripper, BG USAF, ret.
Posted by: Bill Scourge of the Ostrogoths9574   2022-09-14 01:24  

#1  Fuck Disney. Zero sympathy. Walt Disney was a raging anti-Semite, and he's responsible for our copyright laws never ending. Mickey Mouse was created in 1930, if copyright moved, then Disney would lose its mascot. They have the money to hurt the rest of us to ensure their profits, and that's exactly what they've done.

Fuck Disney.
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342   2022-09-14 00:32  

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