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Sharon Overy
Sharon Overy
1 year ago

Two points: The Parental Rights in Education is not better known as the “Don’t say gay bill”, it’s merely misnamed as such by the left. The actual bill prevents instruction on sexuality or gender to small children below about 8 years old. It also insists that after Grade 3, teaching be age-appropriate and parents be informed.

The other point is that the agreement between the state and Disney meant the latter gets the land tax-free. DeSantis said the corporation can have any opinions they like, and express them, but Floridians are not obliged to subsidise them.

Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  Sharon Overy

Yeah the writer displayed his ignorance, or bias, with just that statement, devaluing his credibility.

Roger Inkpen
Roger Inkpen
1 year ago
Reply to  Sharon Overy

Drivel. Lot of laws are better known by different monikers, whether by supporters or opponents. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” being one example for the US. In the UK everybody – except the govt – referred to the ‘Community Charge’ as the ‘poll tax’.

Matt M
Matt M
1 year ago

More evidence for my new theory that it is the Baby Boomers who are responsible for causing this woke trend by indulging employees and students of their own children’s age and that once Gen-Xers take over the top jobs they will put a stop to this idiocy. The CEO of Disney is 61, Ron DeSantis is 43.

Julian Farrows
Julian Farrows
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt M

As a Gen X-er I fully endorse this message.

Bryan Dale
Bryan Dale
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt M

I’m 60 and i support DeSantis and Trump.

Allison Barrows
Allison Barrows
1 year ago
Reply to  Bryan Dale

Ditto.

Matt M
Matt M
1 year ago
Reply to  Bryan Dale

To be clear, I’m not saying all over-60s are guilty of facilitating this woke nonsense. Just the top echelon – the CEOs of blue-chip companies, celebrity journalists, academics at the top universities and the like.
I’m sure you are perfectly sound Bryan & Allison.

Last edited 1 year ago by Matt M
Vlad The Impaler
Vlad The Impaler
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt M

Exactly, as a Gen-Xer I hate all forms of wokeness that the leaders seem to tolerate or promote.

Bryan Dale
Bryan Dale
1 year ago

Big business should stay out of politics. If they take political stands, then they’re fair game for attacks by politicians. For a company that made its name promoting family oriented entertainment, promoting LGBTQ+++ indoctrination of young children was breathtakingly stupid and that’s now reflected in their share price.

Lorna Dobson
Lorna Dobson
1 year ago
Reply to  Bryan Dale

Agreed. Business should be providing goods and/or services, not a lecture on the newest “woke” dogma. Why does anyone need to be subject to indoctrination when shopping or being entertained, whether overtly or surreptitiously?

Samir Iker
Samir Iker
1 year ago
Reply to  Bryan Dale

The central issue is that they truly believe alphabet indoctrination of small children is their sacred duty, and anyone opposing them is evil.

The noteworthy thing is that the parents and politicians opposing them are actually the ones who view gays and heterosexuals as equals – They are both allowed to exist, neither has the right to groom children or parade their sex lives and kinkiness in front of them.

burke schmollinger
burke schmollinger
1 year ago
Reply to  Samir Iker

It says something when a law banning inappropriate sexual speech to 8 year olds and under ends up drawing large protests.

It’s been eye opening to see how much the alphabet people care about making sure kindergartners are indoctrinated in their sexual beliefs.

R Wright
R Wright
1 year ago

The slippery slope is a very real phenomenon.

Tim Pot
Tim Pot
1 year ago
Reply to  R Wright

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26352378
The above is how it started. Our Elites are in the process of enabling the next Child Abuse scandal. Savile was nothing compared to these people & what they now demand. Worse many schools & Government support them
Hopefully things are changing, but it still needed Spiked pointing out this week – Schools are no place for drag queens.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/22/a-school-is-no-place-for-a-drag-queen/

Last edited 1 year ago by Tim Pot
Philip Crowley
Philip Crowley
1 year ago
Reply to  Samir Iker

I completely agree.

Richard Craven
Richard Craven
1 year ago

I can’t imagine a more clearcut case of one side being completely right and the other completely wrong.

AC Harper
AC Harper
1 year ago

We’ve been to Disney World as ‘the last family vacation’ some twenty five years ago. Disney World (and its various Parks), Sea World, and the Orlando Science Centre were great fun.
But I came away feeling creeped out. Much of Disney World manages your perceptions through queuing system entertainment, artful distortion of architecture, and being relentlessly upbeat.

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Perhaps DeSantis is onto something deeper than just a spat with a particular big business.

Last edited 1 year ago by AC Harper
Allison Barrows
Allison Barrows
1 year ago
Reply to  AC Harper

Huxley knew his Tacitus.

Stephanie Surface
Stephanie Surface
1 year ago
Reply to  AC Harper

We did the same with our two children, nearly 30 years ago, who were 3 and 6 at the time. Going on a boat ride through the “it’s a small, small world” display seemed to me like a nightmare at the time with the constantly repeated song, the permanent smiling faces of the puppets and the employees who were working there.

Last edited 1 year ago by Stephanie Surface
Colin MacDonald
Colin MacDonald
1 year ago
Reply to  AC Harper

Mauschwitz.

Ethniciodo Rodenydo
Ethniciodo Rodenydo
1 year ago

Florida is now the most politicised place on earth
What about California, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Washington, New York?

Matt Hindman
Matt Hindman
1 year ago

The moral of this story is “oh yeah, there is not a damn thing you can do about it” is a bad idea when they can do a damn thing about it.

burke schmollinger
burke schmollinger
1 year ago

DeSantis did a spectacular job cornering Disney and the woke brigade into a corner on an issue where the public is overwhelmingly behind him. He staked out a great position that invited his opponents to attack parental rights, a major issue in the US especially since the pandemic, and of course they took the bait.

By actually writing and enforcing legislation on broadly popular issues like parental control of school and ending race communist CRT (this piece doesn’t mention the recently banned racialist MATH textbooks), DeSantis can hopefully challenge Donny in the upcoming showdown. DeSantis will be able to prove his bonafides, along with arguing that while Trump tweets, he signs legislation.

Still who knows. The Dems will probably bring Donny off of Elba to testify to their kangaroo court and end up losing their Waterloo.

Allison Barrows
Allison Barrows
1 year ago

I recognize the author is very young, but I can assure him that people were vacationing in Florida long before Disney World arrived in Orlando. Oh, and as a recent transplant from New England to Lee County, I couldn’t be happier with my regained freedoms, protected by Governor DeSantis. Let’s hope he’ll have the chance to do the same for the rest of the country.

John Lammi
John Lammi
1 year ago

I came out in 1970 at Stanford. I’m a clinical psychologist and a Floridian. I support DeSantis and the referenced bill

Andrew Horsman
Andrew Horsman
1 year ago

I’ve always thought that woke ideology was a bit Mickey Mouse.

Derek Smith
Derek Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Andrew Horsman

It was born in the Mickey Mouse departments of various universities, for sure.

Dustshoe Richinrut
Dustshoe Richinrut
1 year ago

Interesting piece. It’s well worth watching on the tube the old Whicker’s World episode from 1971, in which Alan Whicker anticipates the final stages of the development of Disney World before its official opening.
A local man, interviewed on his little pleasure boat, who had moved to Windermere (population 314, I think he said) on the edge of the grand lake well before Disney arrived, for “think time”, says, ruefully, that the only thing wrong with progress is that it never stops. He’s interviewed by Whicker in 1971.

Jim R
Jim R
1 year ago

This article feels a bit like left wing narrative. Disney’s wounds are all self-inflicted. Any business that wades into politics will alienate legions of customers. Any manager that puts their personal politics above the company’s best interests deserves the liability that is sure to follow.

Last edited 1 year ago by Jim R
Peter Johnson
Peter Johnson
1 year ago

It may get worse for Disney. Disney has successfully pushed for extending the time copyright holders keep their rights. When the Republicans take power there is already talk of no further extensions. I think Disney may continue to be pummelled as an example for other corporations of what happens when you play politics.

Chris Ward
Chris Ward
1 year ago
Reply to  Peter Johnson

Note how Disney makes money from adapting stories that have entered the public domain, then lobby to ensure their output stays copyrighted forever.

Lance Stewart
Lance Stewart
1 year ago

No, DeSantis did not “topple Mickey Mouse” : he toppled the Woke organisation now cynically hiding behind the Walt Disney label while spreading sick, perverted ideas which are the very antithesis of the wholesome entertainment so dear to Disney’s heart.

Martin Smith
Martin Smith
1 year ago

I would expect so-called left wingers to disapprove of sweetheart tax deals for corporations. Just more evidence of the meaninglessness of left/right labelling these days.

R Wright
R Wright
1 year ago

The Disney company that once stayed avowedly apolitical and focussed on providing children with wonder and joy has foolishly hitched itself to the astro turf corporate pride bandwagon, damaging its reputation among parents forever.

Ian Gribbin
Ian Gribbin
1 year ago

Disney, Harry Potter blah, all part of the cultural infantilism and dumbing down.

Chauncey Gardiner
Chauncey Gardiner
1 year ago

In the end, as blue states clung to overextended lockdowns, DeSantis was vindicated; Florida’s death rate from Covid is comparable to California’s.”
“Death rate,” whether a CFR or IFR, makes for an almost meaningless metric. Why? Because you want to control for differences in the populations.
One way to do this would be compare cumulative excess mortality (as a proportion of expected mortality) over time. The last I updated my own analysis of excess mortality by state, the states of New York, California and Florida had converged on the United States average. That suggests that differences in COVID measures across states likely made no difference in performance.
The Orpheus Fallacy – Confusing Correlation with Causality in COVID Interventions
Meanwhile, the sweetheart tax deal Disney got in 1967 served its purpose–in 1967. That purpose was to get Disney to invest in central Florida. It did. The deal guaranteed ten years of tax benefits to Disney. Evidently, such a commitment was sufficient to induce Disney to invest.
The deal had then been renewed decade after decade even though it had exhausted its purpose. Finally, the state wised up and got rid of it.

Roger Inkpen
Roger Inkpen
1 year ago

I believe McDonalds have a university for staff where you can get a degree in ‘burgerology’. Does the Disney corporation have a similar institution … offering Mickey Mouse degrees?

Roger Inkpen
Roger Inkpen
1 year ago
Reply to  Roger Inkpen

And I do wish articles for UK/international writers would avoid using terms like ‘red/blue’ state. Red means left-wing everywhere apart from the US – although I can’t imagine the Trumpsters singing “we’ll keep the red flag flying here”!

Jason Highley
Jason Highley
1 year ago

Hope the stock goes to zero. Nobody needs anything Disney is offering.

David Carson
David Carson
1 year ago

I realize the author grew up in Florida, but growing up in California, “Disney World” was always considered a pale imitation of the real thing: Disneyland.

Jerry Carroll
Jerry Carroll
1 year ago

The progressives at the Walt Disney empire once were able to spread their subversion of family and traditional values quietly because no one outside knew what was going on. And then they became confident enough to gleefully boast about how effectively they were promoting gayness from the youngest child coing through the gate to every corner of the corporate executive suite. Once this became generally known, Disney shares have dropped by 50%,and its new Buzz Lightfoot release showing a kiss between lesbians has badly underperformed at the box office and been banned in 14 countries. Despite this, a feature-length cartoon about the homosexual relationship between two boys is in the works. What part of get woke go broke doesn’t Disney understand?

John Murray
John Murray
1 year ago

My expectation is that some time in early 2023 a quiet deal will be done between Disney and the state of Florida (presumably under a re-elected DeSantis) and things will continue as before. Disney will not get into politics again (lesson learned) and both parties will agree to forget about the recent unpleasantness.

Ess Arr
Ess Arr
1 year ago

Funnily, for all you DeSantis cheerleaders, the poor people of Florida will now face much higher taxes, as previously Disney paid for the maintenance of infrastructure in their neck of the woods. I have no doubt DeSantis will let the legislation quietly fade away closer to election season. He is a dour, argumentative, self-righteous, unattractive man, with no sense of humour. Trump will beat him 7 ways to Monday.

Lennon Ó Náraigh
Lennon Ó Náraigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Ess Arr

The very shrewd thing about this move is that Orange County Florida will have to fill the tax hole left by the dissolution of Reedy Creek. Orange County Florida doesn’t vote Republican.

Addie Schogger
Addie Schogger
1 year ago
Reply to  Ess Arr

No sense of humour? His quip about Elon Musk being an ‘African-American’ was really rather funny.

Last edited 1 year ago by Addie Schogger