You do realize most folks in orlando stand w the rainbows or are rainbows and most of fl hates desantis! Your in a minority if you think hes right! And you all need to burn and i think your kid knows what gay is i am sure there friend has gay parents so get over it and welcome to the real world! And for the rest of you that say f disney go say that on a non disney site will you bc you could be reported on this site! Which knowing your acting like criminals like desantis and trump you should be!
Mark you do realize, or maybe you don’t judging from your comments, that less than 3% identify as gay and less than 1% as transgender. Disney would be harmed much more by traditional families boycotting than they ever would by the lgbt community. The bill doesn’t mention gay anywhere and you are free to love and associate with anyone you want. Why be so militant? The quote “most of fl hates desantis” is just wishful thinking. You sound like the NY liberals who couldn’t understand how Reagan won in a landslide since they didn’t know anyone who voted for him. You may want to expand your acquaintances to get a more realistic view.
I am having a difficult time understanding how most Floridians hate a man that they very obviously voted in. Placing this entire issue aside for a moment, one only needs to look at Florida’s amazing economy in comparison to virtually every other state (esp. Dem run states) & you might realize they actually by in large love him. DAH, they voted for him.
Disney does account for some of our tourism, but not as much as you might think. Our base is broader to include thousands of ppl who never plan to goto WDW.
Ah c’mon you guys, the Disney company can teach the good and value of fornication if it wants to. Other entities do too. Our movie industry and TV industries do. Even many mainline churches do today. So, Disney ought to be able to teach it too. Just think about it. What could be wrong with fornication? If a person is inconvenienced with a human child in the womb, what would be wrong with killing it? It is legal, isn’t it? And sodomy is legal. So, why should Disney not be allowed to teach the good in all this. Live it up, we are told. There are no consequences we are told. There is no one true God they tell us. One could just conceive his own god. And if there is one true God, he loves everyone and forgives everything, we are told. So live it up. Ignore the Christian Sabbath Day (the Lord’s Day). Other entities do. Our government does. Disney can too. We are told it is good to ignore it. Or, …. or are these the kinds of things we read about false prophets saying in the days just prior to the destruction of Israel and Judah by their enemies, the destruction of which was prophesied by the inspired prophets like Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jeremiah.
Disney isn’t woke. They just pretend to be to appease the left, who dominates the social media. But then, there is the mild problem of offending the right because you can’t please all the people all the time.
Disney is between a rock and a hard place. If Disney is neutral, it will offend the left for “not taking a stand.” If they fake left, the right will come chopping off their heads.
So what to do? The best way is to see which one hits Disney where it hurts. Will the left’s displeasure hurt Disney? I doubt any average person can hurt Disney, considering charging for fastpass didn’t even hurt Disney. The government, on the other hand, can cause real pain. So the best thing to do, above all, is to appease the government. Once that’s done, then Disney can appease the left in ways that’s within their power, such as featuring more gays or transgenders in their shows and parks. That is, Disney can be “woke within the law.” The right may not like woke stuff, but like genie+, they will just suck it up. So being woke itself doesn’t hurt Disney, they just need to not go so far as to irritate the government.
You’re missing a core element – much of Disney is about actors and dancers, basically theater kids, which skew very much to a specific sexual identity. If that group doesn’t feel respected at their place of work, they will go elsewhere. Disney apparently didn’t realize how much of their workforce leans to or at least supports that group. Without that base of employees, Disney simply cannot function.
After all, would you work in an environment where you didn’t feel respected?
I hope the Reedy Creek act is terminated. I support any legislation which rescinds special treatment for large corporations such as Disney, Amazon etc. let the favored corporations work in the real world like smaller businesses.
I’m not sure where you get your info, but the majority of performers are not LGBTQ+, even though they are over represented in that group. The majority of Disney employees just want the company to keep its nose out of politics.
I am sure you are correct. Most people are theophobic (God fearing). But Disney presents itself as a pro-sodomy company. And the pro-sodomy community seems to be all you see in the non-theophobic news today.
Governments change, and demographics change. Florida has been consistently in close elections. Factor in Covid deaths which skew heavily towards one side of the political spoectrum, plus an older population aging out, an influx of Californians via Disney’s push towards Florida. The state is on the verge of flipping blue.
While I agree that sexual identity discussion in general doesn’t seem necessary prior to kids hitting puberty, I think it should be a school /district choice. The state should realize that without tourism, it is nothing but oranges.
Exacting revenge for a minor expression of free speech is rich from all you conservatives bleating like pigs about cancel culture. This is the right cancelling Disney. When governments start holding corporations hostage, passing actual laws to hurt them when they don’t fall in line, that’s called authoritarianism.
Lol no one is teaching sex to kindergartners. I teach preschool and have a student with two dad’s and a student with two mom’s. We eat those students to feel included. Teaching preschoolers to be understanding of inclusivity is not promoting sex education. DeSantis is just trying to win points on the right through fear mongering and as a result, is making students like mine feel “less than”. What is right about that? Nothing
In Washington State they are teaching 1st graders “transgender theory” telling them they can choose their own gender… boy, girl, both, or neither. This woke BS has no place in kindergarten to grade 3, let alone grade school. This is exactly why Florida passed the bill. LEAVE THE LITTLE CHILDREN ALONE, YOU WOKE, TRANSGENDER PERVERT.
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t read any further past the blatant LIE this disgusting propagandist of a “journalist” seems to want to preach. There’s no such thing as a “don’t say gay bill” and every single person who believes there is, shows their absolute idiocy and that their elevator doesn’t go all the way up. What an ignorant, fool!
Also, as someone who is gay and also cares about the youngest members in my family and what I don’t want them exposed to, let me just state that Ron DeSantis is quite literally, the Greatest Governor the state has ever had and I couldn’t be prouder to have him in Tallahassee. Disney can leave their “California ideals” back in that hell hole they’re fleeing to Orlando from.
Yes, I love it! Pick sides and LOSE BIG! Disney deserves all they get and more! I am so done with the sleaze of this company. Losing self governance would be a DISASTER! Love it, love it, love it! If this happens, Chapek is officially the worst CEO ever!
So glad to know that after decades of Disney providing jobs, tourism, and massive benefits to the state of Florida, the state government is behaving like petulant spoiled children who don’t expect consequences.
Corporations should never force their workforces to adopt or conform to political ideologies.
Politics is intensely *personal* and belongs OUT of the workspace, where it only ever serves to create tension and division.
Disney Inc has no *business* endorsing or opposing legislation that has no bearing on their *business* operations.
Taking stances on ANY social issues is fraught with peril, but in this case, red-state Florida will end up revoking Disney’s longstanding privileges of tax-sheltering and self-governance.
If that happens, Disney loses. They’ve invested too much in Florida to just pick up stakes and move to Cali.
This may seem an unpopular idea at first glance. But, one thing would fix many of the problems beginning to affect the parks. Stop selling alcohol in the parks. Boy, that WOULD be unpopular to a great many. But, the park would transform back into a vacation spot, and the “local hangout” type of crowd now dominating there would go away. Disney would lose money and crowds, but the vacation experience would be more valuable. Crowd size would diminish making the whole thing more pleasant. Walt Disney himself had no alcohol sells in his parks, and surely his reasoning on the matter had some value.
Why do I have to say “GAY” in the Don’t Say Gay bill? If I say the name of the bill…I’ve said, “GAY”. It makes no sense. DeSantis seems to be too concerned with divisive topics. I would leave Disney alone if I were him.
Nowhere in the bill does it say that… probably reading the actual bill would be more truthful than what most “news” sites are reporting… who I guess also haven’t read the actual bill.
The legislation prohibits any instruction about sexuality or gender between kindergarten and third grade, or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” Exactly what is wrong with this? Let kids be kids
I think a lot of you are missing the true point due to wanting to argue your political affiliation. Cheapek screwed up. He played with fire, and hopefully he’ll get burned for what he has done. When he was in charge of parks/resorts alone they started going down the tubes. Now he’s in charge of the whole freaking company, and they are crapping out for the almighty dollar. Anyways, point is he tried to play both sides, and hopefully he loses. You can’t speak for and against something and think it will turn out in your favor. Because of how horrible he has made everything, I hope this will be the factor to get him booted from the Walt Disney Company. And remember, all have opinions, we all have political opinions, but it does not mean you have to be insulting and nasty. All that does is reinforce to the other “side” you are in the “wrong” because you don’t state facts, only nastiness. This goes for both sides. Anyways, that is why I think Cheapek, yes spelled wrong on purpose, is hopefully going to be gone soon. He played with fire, and now the company may get burned. Just desserts as far as I’m concerned. Let him go, let him go, let the turd goooooo!
Get em Dasantis. It’s about time someone told them about real life. Disney used to have good family values but have gone down hill for years now. I live in Florida and have been a loyal Walt Disney World visitor sense they opened their doors in 1971and spent thousands there.I have not gone in years now because of what they now stand for, and probably won’t ever go to their parks again or spend another dollar on them. I just cancelled my Disney + subscription.
Comments for Florida Legislators Working To Stop Disney’s Special Treatment, Blast Disney’s “Woke Ideology”
F
Excellent!!! It’s about time!!
Oh and STOP GROOMING Little Kids, Freaks!
Lisa
When they groom, do they use a brush or a comb? I gather you are talking about dogs.
Roon3805
Come on, do you really think that’s an intelligent counter argument?
Matt
I do not want my kindergarten kids to be forced to learn about homosexuality, trangenderism, and non-binary declarations!!
Wake Woke Disney!
Mark
You do realize most folks in orlando stand w the rainbows or are rainbows and most of fl hates desantis! Your in a minority if you think hes right! And you all need to burn and i think your kid knows what gay is i am sure there friend has gay parents so get over it and welcome to the real world! And for the rest of you that say f disney go say that on a non disney site will you bc you could be reported on this site! Which knowing your acting like criminals like desantis and trump you should be!
Drew
Mark you do realize, or maybe you don’t judging from your comments, that less than 3% identify as gay and less than 1% as transgender. Disney would be harmed much more by traditional families boycotting than they ever would by the lgbt community. The bill doesn’t mention gay anywhere and you are free to love and associate with anyone you want. Why be so militant? The quote “most of fl hates desantis” is just wishful thinking. You sound like the NY liberals who couldn’t understand how Reagan won in a landslide since they didn’t know anyone who voted for him. You may want to expand your acquaintances to get a more realistic view.
Brad
Very well said
Skizz
That’s just not true. The bill has over 60% support including a good percentage of democrats as well.
Terry
Do you realize most of the state overwhelmingly supports this bill. And De Santis. YOU are in the minority on this one, my friend.
Lucile
Mark , please stay away from children
A
I am having a difficult time understanding how most Floridians hate a man that they very obviously voted in. Placing this entire issue aside for a moment, one only needs to look at Florida’s amazing economy in comparison to virtually every other state (esp. Dem run states) & you might realize they actually by in large love him. DAH, they voted for him.
Feli
Bye Florida, we don’t need you
Sheep-are-Tasty
Stay home. Florida doesn’t need garbage like you.
JN
Without Disney Florida as a whole is in serious trouble.
LeonL
I double dog dare Disney to pull out of Florida.
FormerCastMember
Disney does account for some of our tourism, but not as much as you might think. Our base is broader to include thousands of ppl who never plan to goto WDW.
Len
I’m done with all Disney crap!!!!!!
Tennessee
Ah c’mon you guys, the Disney company can teach the good and value of fornication if it wants to. Other entities do too. Our movie industry and TV industries do. Even many mainline churches do today. So, Disney ought to be able to teach it too. Just think about it. What could be wrong with fornication? If a person is inconvenienced with a human child in the womb, what would be wrong with killing it? It is legal, isn’t it? And sodomy is legal. So, why should Disney not be allowed to teach the good in all this. Live it up, we are told. There are no consequences we are told. There is no one true God they tell us. One could just conceive his own god. And if there is one true God, he loves everyone and forgives everything, we are told. So live it up. Ignore the Christian Sabbath Day (the Lord’s Day). Other entities do. Our government does. Disney can too. We are told it is good to ignore it. Or, …. or are these the kinds of things we read about false prophets saying in the days just prior to the destruction of Israel and Judah by their enemies, the destruction of which was prophesied by the inspired prophets like Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jeremiah.
I love Disney
Disney isn’t woke. They just pretend to be to appease the left, who dominates the social media. But then, there is the mild problem of offending the right because you can’t please all the people all the time.
Disney is between a rock and a hard place. If Disney is neutral, it will offend the left for “not taking a stand.” If they fake left, the right will come chopping off their heads.
So what to do? The best way is to see which one hits Disney where it hurts. Will the left’s displeasure hurt Disney? I doubt any average person can hurt Disney, considering charging for fastpass didn’t even hurt Disney. The government, on the other hand, can cause real pain. So the best thing to do, above all, is to appease the government. Once that’s done, then Disney can appease the left in ways that’s within their power, such as featuring more gays or transgenders in their shows and parks. That is, Disney can be “woke within the law.” The right may not like woke stuff, but like genie+, they will just suck it up. So being woke itself doesn’t hurt Disney, they just need to not go so far as to irritate the government.
Randy W
You’re missing a core element – much of Disney is about actors and dancers, basically theater kids, which skew very much to a specific sexual identity. If that group doesn’t feel respected at their place of work, they will go elsewhere. Disney apparently didn’t realize how much of their workforce leans to or at least supports that group. Without that base of employees, Disney simply cannot function.
After all, would you work in an environment where you didn’t feel respected?
Mari
I hope the Reedy Creek act is terminated. I support any legislation which rescinds special treatment for large corporations such as Disney, Amazon etc. let the favored corporations work in the real world like smaller businesses.
Dan
I’m not sure where you get your info, but the majority of performers are not LGBTQ+, even though they are over represented in that group. The majority of Disney employees just want the company to keep its nose out of politics.
Tennessee
I am sure you are correct. Most people are theophobic (God fearing). But Disney presents itself as a pro-sodomy company. And the pro-sodomy community seems to be all you see in the non-theophobic news today.
Terry
Do you realize most of the state overwhelmingly supports this bill. And De Santis. YOU are in the minority on this one, my friend.
Onslaught
Translation: 3 Klansmen got together at a bar and talked about the idea twice this week, on the taxpayer dime, of course.
Better enjoy WDW while you can, Florida and the rest of the east coast will be under water within another 10-15 years.
Sheep-are-Tasty
Step away from the pipe!
Mari
Nah, Obama and Gates just bought million dollar waterfront properties.
DizNot
Governments change, and demographics change. Florida has been consistently in close elections. Factor in Covid deaths which skew heavily towards one side of the political spoectrum, plus an older population aging out, an influx of Californians via Disney’s push towards Florida. The state is on the verge of flipping blue.
While I agree that sexual identity discussion in general doesn’t seem necessary prior to kids hitting puberty, I think it should be a school /district choice. The state should realize that without tourism, it is nothing but oranges.
Mari
It should be a parents choice. There is no need to teach sex to kindergartners.
JS
Exacting revenge for a minor expression of free speech is rich from all you conservatives bleating like pigs about cancel culture. This is the right cancelling Disney. When governments start holding corporations hostage, passing actual laws to hurt them when they don’t fall in line, that’s called authoritarianism.
Soi Goi
Ok, Groomer
Ashley
Lol no one is teaching sex to kindergartners. I teach preschool and have a student with two dad’s and a student with two mom’s. We eat those students to feel included. Teaching preschoolers to be understanding of inclusivity is not promoting sex education. DeSantis is just trying to win points on the right through fear mongering and as a result, is making students like mine feel “less than”. What is right about that? Nothing
PAUL
In Washington State they are teaching 1st graders “transgender theory” telling them they can choose their own gender… boy, girl, both, or neither. This woke BS has no place in kindergarten to grade 3, let alone grade school. This is exactly why Florida passed the bill. LEAVE THE LITTLE CHILDREN ALONE, YOU WOKE, TRANSGENDER PERVERT.
FormerCastMember
So, you have read the actual bill, correct?
Roon3805
Virginia was blue too until they pissed off (or awakened) parents.
Tj
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t read any further past the blatant LIE this disgusting propagandist of a “journalist” seems to want to preach. There’s no such thing as a “don’t say gay bill” and every single person who believes there is, shows their absolute idiocy and that their elevator doesn’t go all the way up. What an ignorant, fool!
Also, as someone who is gay and also cares about the youngest members in my family and what I don’t want them exposed to, let me just state that Ron DeSantis is quite literally, the Greatest Governor the state has ever had and I couldn’t be prouder to have him in Tallahassee. Disney can leave their “California ideals” back in that hell hole they’re fleeing to Orlando from.
TruthSeeker
You’re gay and a DeSantis supporter? You are one confused fool
FormerCastMember
I agree!
Oyf
Yes, I love it! Pick sides and LOSE BIG! Disney deserves all they get and more! I am so done with the sleaze of this company. Losing self governance would be a DISASTER! Love it, love it, love it! If this happens, Chapek is officially the worst CEO ever!
Phoebe L Ho
So glad to know that after decades of Disney providing jobs, tourism, and massive benefits to the state of Florida, the state government is behaving like petulant spoiled children who don’t expect consequences.
Come at me, snowflakes!!!!!
J Cline
Corporations should never force their workforces to adopt or conform to political ideologies.
Politics is intensely *personal* and belongs OUT of the workspace, where it only ever serves to create tension and division.
Disney Inc has no *business* endorsing or opposing legislation that has no bearing on their *business* operations.
Taking stances on ANY social issues is fraught with peril, but in this case, red-state Florida will end up revoking Disney’s longstanding privileges of tax-sheltering and self-governance.
If that happens, Disney loses. They’ve invested too much in Florida to just pick up stakes and move to Cali.
No More Alcohol Sells
This may seem an unpopular idea at first glance. But, one thing would fix many of the problems beginning to affect the parks. Stop selling alcohol in the parks. Boy, that WOULD be unpopular to a great many. But, the park would transform back into a vacation spot, and the “local hangout” type of crowd now dominating there would go away. Disney would lose money and crowds, but the vacation experience would be more valuable. Crowd size would diminish making the whole thing more pleasant. Walt Disney himself had no alcohol sells in his parks, and surely his reasoning on the matter had some value.
Donald
Why do I have to say “GAY” in the Don’t Say Gay bill? If I say the name of the bill…I’ve said, “GAY”. It makes no sense. DeSantis seems to be too concerned with divisive topics. I would leave Disney alone if I were him.
FormerCastMember
Nowhere in the bill does it say that… probably reading the actual bill would be more truthful than what most “news” sites are reporting… who I guess also haven’t read the actual bill.
cs
The legislation prohibits any instruction about sexuality or gender between kindergarten and third grade, or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” Exactly what is wrong with this? Let kids be kids
Bren
I think a lot of you are missing the true point due to wanting to argue your political affiliation. Cheapek screwed up. He played with fire, and hopefully he’ll get burned for what he has done. When he was in charge of parks/resorts alone they started going down the tubes. Now he’s in charge of the whole freaking company, and they are crapping out for the almighty dollar. Anyways, point is he tried to play both sides, and hopefully he loses. You can’t speak for and against something and think it will turn out in your favor. Because of how horrible he has made everything, I hope this will be the factor to get him booted from the Walt Disney Company. And remember, all have opinions, we all have political opinions, but it does not mean you have to be insulting and nasty. All that does is reinforce to the other “side” you are in the “wrong” because you don’t state facts, only nastiness. This goes for both sides. Anyways, that is why I think Cheapek, yes spelled wrong on purpose, is hopefully going to be gone soon. He played with fire, and now the company may get burned. Just desserts as far as I’m concerned. Let him go, let him go, let the turd goooooo!
Ron
Get em Dasantis. It’s about time someone told them about real life. Disney used to have good family values but have gone down hill for years now. I live in Florida and have been a loyal Walt Disney World visitor sense they opened their doors in 1971and spent thousands there.I have not gone in years now because of what they now stand for, and probably won’t ever go to their parks again or spend another dollar on them. I just cancelled my Disney + subscription.
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