The Mouse That Got Roared Back At
Disney is paying a price for its wokeness.
by Larry Thornberry
April 23, 2022, 1:42 AM
It’s so refreshing to see the growing pushback by conservative Americanos against the cultural tyranny of the left, which has had its way with us much too easily and for way too long. The culture war is real. It’s important to our psychological and spiritual health. And it appears that both sides are finally engaging. Until recently, save for sporadic muttering, the silence from the right has been deafening. But there are stirrings now. Better courage should come late than never.
The hopeful signs first appeared in government school board meetings across the country, as aggrieved parents showed up to protest teachers flogging divisive racialist hustles like CRT and pestering children on sexual subjects they are not ready to deal with, and which at any time should be the province of parents, not teachers or any other agents of the state. It’s having an effect.
The latest counterpunch from the right comes from Florida, which, with a combative conservative governor and legislature and a first-in-state-history majority Republican voter registration, has been in the vanguard of fighting for traditional values. The punchee in this case is the formerly great Walt Disney Company, which threw a hissy fit in March when the Florida Legislature passed and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law an imminently sensible measure that prohibits the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. That’s ages 5 through 8, when children not only don’t know anything about sex, they don’t even suspect anything.
Disney’s characterization of this popular law — which bans Comrade Teacher from pestering little 5-year-old Johnny about whether he would be more comfortable as a girl — is wildly over the top.
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