Disney’s Ongoing Public Self-Immolation Is Just What We NeededThe message to woke corporations is loud and clear: Stand up to your loud, spoiled, woke kiddo employees or take the real-world lumps.
By Rod Thomson
April 17, 2022
Disney’s public exercise in self-destruction is one of the best things to come of the dust-up over Florida’s very moderate Parental Rights in Education law. It’s created essential transparency for a moment. The nation now is becoming aware of Disney’s grooming proclivities on multiple fronts, and the very real threat the one-time beacon of American capitalism poses to children.
And further, there is a blinking neon lesson for the wokeist corporations that they cannot win in these situations, as both Republican and Democratic events have been canceled at Disney for opposite ends of the same issue. Perhaps corporations could actually return to being non-political, although to do so would be to have the spine to ignore their propaganda-addled younger employees.
That lesson may be too late for Disney as the reality is settling in for many people that the company’s left turn is not a new shift for Walt’s legacy. Disney was woke long before the term entered the vernacular. The outlines were visible with Disney’s purchase of ESPN when it acquired Capital Cities/ABC in 1996. Within a few years, ESPN began infusing more and more of its sports coverage with social justice commentary, seeds that have blossomed into a forest of wokeness at the sports network that has turned off hundreds of thousands of sports fans. Disney also owns the rights, through ABC and ESPN, for NBA games—not coincidentally the wokest of all American sports.
For Disney, the sick end of wokeness goes deep. In 2014, CNN reported that Disney had a “child sex predator” problem through a series of stories highlighting the unusually high number of arrests and convictions in the previous years. Those stories are now being revisited—though not by CNN—and likely there is more investigative reporting underway by conservative outlets to see what those numbers look like since then.
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https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/17/disneys-ongoing-public-self-immolation-is-just-what-we-needed/
