![]() ![]() Jonathan VanBoskerck wrote in a column published by the Orlando Sentinel: Those changes include allowing park employees more flexibility to reflect their cultures and individuality on the job, and making changes to park attractions that have been criticized as racist such as Splash Mountain and Jungle Cruise. Twitter is ablaze over a guest column from a loyal Walt Disney World fan who is strongly rethinking his family's commitment to Disney because of their change in values. Rich Lowry is editor in chief of the National Review.View Gallery: Disney World, Disneyland 2021 preview: Epcot revamp, Avengers Campus Ideally, Disney and the Florida legislature work out a renewal of the company’s special district before it is set to expire, and Disney resolves to stick to its core competency and mission. Republicans don’t want corporations to become tools in advancing their agenda they just want them to exit the culture wars and focus, once again, on their business. This fight could have welcome effects, though, if it convinces Disney that it made a mistake by allowing itself to get bullied and cajoled into becoming a combatant in the culture war, or if it convinces other corporations that there’s a potential price to be paid for joining woke mobs. Obviously, it is not a good practice for government to retaliate against a business, even a business enjoying a special status. Now, that’s all scheduled to go away in a year’s time. It even has the authority to levy taxes.” It composes its own building codes and employs its own inspectors. It administers its own planning and zoning. “Never before or since has such outlandish dominion been given to a private corporation,” Florida writer Carl Hiaasen notes in his book “Team Rodent.” “Disney owns its own utilities. The provisions allowing Disney to govern itself in its special independent district are so extensive that one analyst refers to the so-called Reedy Creek Improvement District as “the Vatican with mouse ears.” The Florida legislature decided to convince it that it was wrong.ĭisney’s problem is that it had a glaring vulnerability in the form of an arrangement that can easily be portrayed as a special favor. Like so many companies before, Disney calculated the risk/reward of gratuitously taking up a left-wing political and cultural fight and considered it all reward, no risk. This was, shockingly, an iconic American brand making itself into a free-floating weapon of woke cultural politics in response to the social and political influence of a small number of vocal progressives. In fact, the law merely seeks to exclude inappropriate material from being taught to young children in the classroom - an objective that once would have been considered utterly banal. The company got pushed into its stance based on pressure from a woke segment of its employees and from progressives on the outside.ĭisney’s case against the bill relied on the smear that the legislation somehow threatened gay or trans people. Disney was the aggressor in the battle over the education bill, lied about it, and pledged to work to repeal it.Įven though the bill had nothing to do with Disney whatsoever. There’s a reason this fight escalated to this point, though. Disney criticizes a measure supported by the Florida GOP, the so-called Don’t Say Gay bill, and immediately gets targeted. ![]() This is a sign, we are told, of the advent of an American authoritarianism that brooks no dissent. Ron DeSantis, voted to repeal the “special independent district” enjoyed by Disney for half a century. The state legislature, with the support of Gov. Just like that, tyranny has descended on Florida. ![]()
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