Disney's Child Sacrifice
The "family entertainment" giant bows down to the deities of "woke" ideology.
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The world's most respected producer of family entertainment has decided to sacrifice children to the deities of "woke" ideology.
Disney -- which gave the world Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and other beloved aspects of popular culture -- announced it will actively promote normalizing homosexual and transgender identity while resisting any opposition to the LGBTQ agenda.
The entertainment giant made that decision as part of its fight against two Southern governors trying to protect children and reinforce parental authority. Disney opposed a Florida bill, which Gov. Ron DeSantis signed March 28, that prohibited school authorities from encouraging “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels.”
Meanwhile, Disney joined other corporations such as Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft in opposing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's order to investigate sex-change operations on children as illegal and possible child abuse. In a Feb. 22 letter the governor sent to Jaime Masters, commissioner for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Abbott wrote:
"It is already against the law to subject Texas children to a wide variety of elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or estrogen."
Disney CEO Bob Chapek disclosed the company's decision to fight Abbott's order during a March 21 meeting, which featured another announcement: Disney will create a task force to design more children's content featuring homosexual and transgender identity and behavior.
"The company said the task force will enlist the help of experts to develop a concrete plan to ensure Disney is ‘a force for good’ for LGBTQ+ communities, especially children and family," Reuters reported March 22.
As part of that commitment, a same-sex kiss cut from the new film Lightyear, part of the Toy Story franchise, would be restored.
"We know the moment requires urgency, and words are not enough," Chapek said. "So we are taking some actions right now."
Chapek's comment reflects his desire to appease an increasingly "woke" base of executives, employees and contractors who went apoplectic on social media when Florida's legislature passed the aforementioned bill March 9. The CEO contacted De Santis that day "to express our disappointment and concern that if the legislation becomes law, it could be used to unfairly target gay, lesbian, non-binary and transgender kids and families," Chapek said.
“We were opposed to the bill from the outset,” he added. “But we chose not to take a public position on it because we thought we could be more effective working behind-the-scenes, engaging directly with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.”
DeSantis replied the next day.
"When you have companies that have made a fortune out of being family-friendly and catering to families and young kids, they should understand that parents of young kids do not want this injected into their kindergarten classroom," he said. "In Florida, our policies are going to be based on the best interests of Florida citizens, not on the musing of ‘woke’ corporations"
In response, Disney employees who supported the LGBTQ agenda staged walkouts. ESPN, which Disney owns, even interrupted its coverage of the NCAA women's basketball tournament March 18 with two minutes of silence to support transgender athletes. On March 22, ESPN followed with a Twitter thread that began with this statement:
"ESPN believes in inclusivity and denounces legislation and actions across the United States that infringe on any human rights. We stand with our LGBTQIA+ colleagues, friends, families and fans."
But Disney goes beyond human rights, as the Manhattan Institute's Christopher Rufo demonstrated March 30.
Rufo posted three brief Twitter videos showing Disney executives embracing and promoting the alphabet agenda. Executive Producer Latoya Raveneau said Disney management "has been so welcoming to my not-at-all secret gay agenda" before continuing in a happily animated vein.
"Whenever I could, I was just basically adding queerness," Raveneau said. "No one would stop me, and no one was trying to stop me."
Colin Wright, an evolutionary biologist and a contributing editor at Quillette, described Raveneau's enthusiasm succinctly:
"Gender ideology indoctrination is gay conversion therapy."
Disney is so committed that not only is it removing "gendered greetings," as Diversity and Inclusion Manager Vivian Ware described them. It purportedly plans to create 50 percent of its future characters with homosexual or transgender identities.
Instead of welcoming visitors to Disneyland and Walt Disney World with "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls," Ware said she trained employees to say, "Hello, everyone," "Hello, friends," "Dreamers of all ages" and similar phrases. Ware added she is training employees in concessions and souvenirs to be more aware of gender identity.
"We don't want to just assume because somebody might be presenting as female in our interpretation, that they may not want to be called 'princess,' " Ware said. "Let's think differently about how we really engage with our guests in a meaningful and inclusive way that makes it magical and memorable for everyone."
Karey Burke, president of Disney General Entertainment Content, emphasized more overt homosexual and transgender identities for future characters, with perhaps as many as 50 percent representing the alphabet community.
"One of our execs stood up and said, 'You know, we only had a handful of queer leads in our content,' " Burke said. "I went, 'What? That can't be true!' And I realized, 'Oh, it actually is true.' We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and yet, we don't have enough leads and narratives in which gay characters just get to be gay characters and not have to be about gay stories. That's been very, very eye opening for me."
Such a philosophy permeated the March 21 meeting, as the Daily Wire's Megan Basham reported. After Chapek spoke, “a panel of LGBT activists gave a talk one Disney staffer said was 'about wanting Disney to indoctrinate kids,' " Basham reported.
The staffer described similar presentations "as a strategy session for circumventing the will of mothers and fathers," Basham reported.
"These activist employees and outside organizations recognize Disney’s cultural significance," the employee told Basham. "They want to use the company to make an end-run around parents through content creation and political pressure. They see it as their mission to rescue the next generation from their conservative parents."
Rescued for what? The sheriff's department in Polk County, Fla. provides a possible and disturbing answer.
On March 16, the department announced that a sting operation resulted in 108 suspects being arrested for human trafficking. Four worked for Disney.
A 27-year-old lifeguard at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort at Walt Disney World allegedly sent sexually explicit pictures and messages to an undercover agent posing as a 14-year-old girl. Another suspect was a 24-year-old man who worked at a restaurant in the park. Two others were a 45-year-old IT expert and a 27-year-old software developer.
"Four arrests of this magnitude in a week is simply remarkable," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said March 16.
Disney has long had problems with child predators in its work force, as Ruso wrote March 31 for City Journal. In 2014, for example, CNN published its six-month investigation showing that at least 35 Disney employees were arrested for sex crimes against children in the previous eight years. Charges included owning child pornography and arranging to meet children and teenagers for sex.
Yet despite the risks in embracing the alphabet agenda, Burke spoke with the assurance of radical utopians throughout history when she declared, "we just can't allow each other to go backwards."
Ironically, by embracing that agenda, Disney is doing more than going backwards. It is destroying its historical identity.
"This is a complete institutional takeover," the anonymous staffer told the Daily Wire. "Disney is lost."
Joseph Hippolito is a freelance writer and a regular contributor to FrontPage Magazine. His commentaries have appeared in The Federalist, The Stream, Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post and National Post.
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Nice photo. That's tranny Mickey on the left and butch Minnie on the right in case you're confused.
Sadly, and predictably, people will continue to fill Disney's massive coffers. Just like with sports, they will keep coming back. Will power is not our greatest strength.
Disney supports child rape. If you and your child "enjoy" any Disney products, don't be surprised when your child is abused.
I love EPCOT but unless and until disney stops sexualizing kids and promoting homosexuality, no trips there.
The strongest bulwark against the Great Reset and its progressive army is the conservative Jewish and Christian family. These families must give their children a Hillsdale College style education informing them about true history, including the unique history and founding of the United States. They must be taught the true nature of human beings, and the necessity for the rule of law and blind justice. We must become ideologues, just as the Left. No compromise. No Marxist dialectic of thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis. We must lift up our eyes and realize that all we love is under threat. We must recognize these progressives are domestic enemies in collusion with foreign enemies who largely fund and make possible their existence, strategy and weapons.
Our children will NOT be rescued from us to become the miserable sex and economic slaves of their dystopian kingdoms. Perhaps bloodshed can be avoided if more of us work with and as lesser magistrates in our own communities, confronting school boards, city councils, etc.
F Goofy! Oh, wait.
De Santis is a courageous governor-what the average American should do is remember that when any enttity like Disneygoes full blown woke, the answer is to let it go broke
Disney is like so many other "brands" thar we once relied on and trusted that has been infected with the Left and it's sick and destructive agenda. They slowly work their way up the corporate ladder or literally buy a company and proceed to destroy it from within- MUCH AS THE LEFT HAS BEEN DOING TO THE UNITED STATES AND ALL OUR ONCE GREAT INSTITUTIONS. Now, it has an insane business model that will market to people WHO DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN OR CANNOT HAVE CHILDREN. The Alphabet squad does not reproduce- they do not go on family vacations Will sit back and sadly watch this company that has offered so much joy and entertainment for chi8ldren- around the world- for decades go down the drain, The Left destroys everything it touches- no exceptions
JUST THINK: Had the constitutional framers (like their early 1600 predecessors) established government and society upon the Bible's immutable/unchanging moral law (including Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, etc.) there would be no LGBT movement today because no sodomite, lesbian, or "transgender" would dare risk exposing themselves (pun intended) to petition government for their "rights" or to parade their wares in public.
That they are doing so is just another abominable consequence of the constitutional framer's rejection of Yahweh as America's Sovereign and His moral law as supreme:
"[B]ecause they have ... trespassed against my law ... they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind...." (Hosea 8:1, 7)
Today's America is reaping the inevitable ever-intensifying whirlwind resulting from the wind sown by the constitutional framers and fanned by today's hoodwinked Christians and patriots who have been bamboozled into believing today's whirlwind can be dissipated by appealing to the wind responsible for spawning the whirlwind.
For more, see Chapter 3 "The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh" of free online book "Bible Law vs, the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective" at Bible versus Constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Books page and scroll down to Chapter 3.
Then Chapter 9 "Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land."
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I remember when conservatives used to freak out over Disneyland's "gay days," imagined subliminal messages in Aladdin, and the Little Mermaid disobeying her father.
They lost then, their boycotts did nothing to stop Disney from growing even richer, and they won't win this time either.
I remember when pro baseball used to have gay days too. That didn't work out at all because too many fags were basically having sex in the ball park and normal people simply stayed away. Baseball teams lost a bundle because normal people stopped going on those nights. So Baseball stopped gay night.
It figures, given the leftists, communists and Muslims you support, that you would support this sick kid grooming sh*t as well. You are one perverted little fck.
It will stop when Disney is sued in a class action lawsuit by parents whose kids have been harmed by this sick trend that has taken over education and entertainment. Not to mention the number of Disney employees who have been arrested on child porn charges. When enough heat comes down on this company the current hierarchy will be fired.
In the meantime, if you work at Disney, and you are normal, find a new job. If you own Disney stock sell today. If you are a Disney Board Member resign before you get caught up in a major lawsuit.
And cancel your Disney+ subscription.
Fortunately we don't have a Disney subscription. We have Hulu and Amazon ....they have some Disney programming which we avoid
Remember when conservatives were going to take down Netflix? Another failed conservative boycott, just like the one on DIsney will be.
You are truly one sick little leftist f*ck. But we already suspected it. Thanks for confirming it.
Have fun watching Veggie Tales. Wonder why those conservative boycotts never work when your entertanment is so stellar, creative and talented.
Enjoy grooming kids, Mickey.
Just because it might show gay people exist (outside of Sodom and Gomorrah hate preaching) doesn't mean they're grooming. Difficult concept for a homophobe I know.
Gee, you are such a tolerant little communist. And they aren't teaching/preaching CRT either. Perhaps you should talk to a parent who attends school board meetings. You are truly a progressive hack and a congenital liar. Kind of like CondePsaki. From now on I will call you Mickey the Groomer.
Enjoy getting your little grooming ass kicked in the November mids.