Disney is slipping … going light to dark. Think J.R.R. Tolkien … East of Gondor, south of Mirkwood, lies Mordor, the “land of shadows” in Tolkien’s make-believe world. A Black Gate is guarded by Towers of Teeth, and what could be good is bad. Disney is slipping toward Mordor, away from innocence, goodness, and light. Disney is now Communist China’s ally, promoter of social dysfunction, place of fear, and trepidation for parents who want healthy children. Why?
First, Disney went “woke,” pushing adult themes on little children, abnormal as normal, infusing what was happy, innocent entertainment with darkness, leftist jargon, and characters.
Then, Disney moved into a tight relationship with Communist China’s government. That relationship, well documented, involves revenues from contracts with a government guilty of heinous human rights violations and seems to be encouraging Chinese content in America.
Now, we see something stranger still. Parents fear for young children and feel under siege. They witness leftist, power-centering, coercive policies pushed into public schools. Media and government push what – only a few years ago and objectively – is inappropriate content.
When parents speak at school board meetings, the Biden Justice Department investigates them under the rubric of “terrorism.” Parents discover Marxist curricula, Critical Race Theory, sexual misinformation, open disenfranchisement of girls, and mass erosion of Title 9 gains.
In Florida, parents have finally stood up – and said “enough!” They banded together and asked the governor to protect young children in public schools – kindergarten to third grade. They wanted an end to lessons causing children fear, confusion, and doubt about gender, sexuality, and identity.
How many little children do you know, or ever in time knew, know those words – as they were taught to read, write, do math, and gain confidence? None until now.
Even worse, parents were told they had to shut up, no remedy. Their kids were being taught that they might not be boys or girls, after all – not what God, science, history, common sense, and parents teach, but fungible and, worse, fixable. Confusing does not begin to reflect the anger parents feel.
All this would worry any parent because it steals parental prerogatives, what parents are there to do – teach and nurture, love and educate, and morally ground their children. That is not the job of a politically motivated, morally indifferent, or openly immoral government of a company.
So, Florida’s parents and governor passed a law to stop the government from teaching little children to question their sexuality, gender, or life identities, ending political and wrong-headed life lessons.
The state restored parents’ long-held rights, including when and in what way to speak and teach, medically and morally educate, protect, and advance their children’s lives.
Sensible, except here comes Disney. Disney – once “motherhood and apple pie” – now seems in league with those advancing profoundly inappropriate questions for little children, causing them to question political and sexual identities, in effect grooming, cultivating, and indoctrinating the young.
Disney slammed parents and the governor for preserving parental rights in areas as important to child development as it gets, that being security, identity, and proper timing for understanding sexuality.
The real question is why? Why did Disney decide to advocate for child confusion, moral depredation, misinformation, and miseducation, using their longtime positive image to drag children into Mordor, a place of worry, fear, confusion, and questioning of their parents?
How did a paragon of virtue, a place of relief and entertainment, a company known for supplanting worry with hope, fear with joy, anxiety with jubilation – become the reverse, a source of an attack on families, parents, childhood security, and a place of anxiety, worry, and political correctness?
Children in America are suffering from social isolation, COVID aftereffects, and suspension of traditional educational grounding. They are being cared for by stressed parents in an age of political histrionics, a unique blend of insecurity. The last thing they need is to be told they should question if they are, in fact, a boy or girl.
And the last thing parents need is to fight a company once a wholesome source of comfort and entertainment for children – suddenly leveraging that relationship to push politics and sex.
Bluntly, leftists in government and detractors of family rights and childhood security in the corporate world are working to shape children and undermine childhood security, confidence, and social peace. This woke business model must stop.
Disney has lost its way. The time is now for those who think this way to stop. Parents have the right to raise their children, protect them, and guide their education in personal and sexual matters. In no world – not even J.R.R. Tolkien’s darkest Mordor – are little children used as social experiments. Parents across America are right – Disney’s new identity is wrong.
This is a good article about how Disney has changed.
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Some of the comments after the article are great.
Am proud to never have gone beyond their parking lot. Hope they go broke being woke!
First – this new law in Florida should extend throughout elementary school years – not just through the 3rd grade. Secondly – there is no such thing as a Trans-Gender – you are born XX (Female) or XY (Male) and you will live with those little chromosomes and you will die with the same. No matter how much lipstick, makeup, clothing or whatever – a boy cannot be a girl — and a girl cannot be a boy. They are nothing more than Cross-Dressers! – Period!
Disney’s been “woke” for quite some time now. I opted to take the grandkids elsewhere. No more Disneyland for this fellow and his family… IMHO
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FJB! LET’S GO BRANDON!
BYE bye Disney!!!!
Disney was supposed to be where you could still escape to a world of love of country, morals, clean living, and fun. The most political it ever was, before now, were the ads to “Buy Bonds” and the cartoons against Hitler and Hirohito during WWII. Walt and his brother must be whirling dervishes in their graves! What is so bad about being just like it was supposed to be when it was first thought of, a place for families to have fun? I am glad I went to both Disney World and Disneyland years ago, before it went so “woke.”
Disney chose alliance with ‘Hollywierdoism’ for the money, power, and political influence over the traditional mission of haven and entertainment for innocent children within traditional family structure.
Disney is now a parallel to what America has become. Don’t overlook the evil just because there is a little good here and there. Disney will only respond to money folks because they are so big in the world and have such a solid group on their boards and financiers that favor the left’s Marxist theology. Time for those who want morality back on center stage to turn them off even if it hurts a little. What do we want our children and culture exposed to? Our power against these corporations is money.
Instead of Florida feeling THEY have to explain why a 4 to 8 year olds teacher should refer to a parent regarding sexual matters, how’s about the teachers explain why its so important to THEM to talk to a child about sex? Seems kind of “pedo-ee” to me… If I can drink Sam’s Choice soda instead of Wok-a-Cola, I can skip watching anything from Disney…
Simple! STOP GOING! Money talks! They may not be converted in heart, but they will definitely respond to pending bankruptcy!
We were Annual Passholders. No more. That frees our $1,500+ cashflow to Disney (NOT COUNTING WHAT WAS SPENT AT THE PARK) for other things. Do not feed the Rat in Mouse’s clothing any more.
IT’S TIME, PEOPLE . . . TIME TO BOYCOTT
ANY BUSINESS SPEWING SOCIALIST
DEMOCRATIC DOGMA! . . . THEY MADE
THEIR MONEY UNDER CAPITALISM,
HOW STUPID ARE THESE DEMOCRATS?
Maybe, just maybe, the management of Disney World will get a wakeup call when the State of Florida takes away their tax breaks and other financial benefits. The stock holders will not be very happy and even in this weird world of woke business, money still talks. Where is Disney World going? It would take them decades to move the property to some other state. The loss of revenue from a majority of families who still hold values will impact them and their bottom line. Business and politics can become a burden that will kill the golden goose.
Walt would be turning in his grave
It’s time for them (the normal them) to change the name from Disney to something else. The company has been going in this direction for some time now. No actual members of the Disney family are involved to my knowledge. I was raised on Walt Disney and my children were also. Nearly every family vacation involved Disney, because that’s where the kids wanted to go. I and my children have many wonderful memories because of Walt Disney’s vision. He made the world a better place. That time is gone, and my family will not spend our money or time on Disney again.
Disney has become a vacation destination and almost every child wants a Mickey Mouse or Minnie Mouse doll or figurine. Disney makes billions from the sales of merchandise, ticket sales and on and on . Let’s send a message to Disney with our dollars and tell them to get out of our country and try promoting their agenda and vile thinking in Red China ! Disney we are done with your nonsense .
Will never spend any money on anything Disney ever again. Hey Disney execs, It must be difficult walking around with no spine. You are going down.
Our family has never been to Disney World. Our children didn’t want to go. They liked to visit things like Lost Sea in Tennessee and every cave and cavern we passed on our road trips. Seems they weren’t happy unless they spent their vacation underground. Maybe it was because their parents have a fixation with geology and they acquired it. But the one thing we did enjoy and I sure do miss was Hanna Barbera Land. We lived in Houston and had one nearby. I never realized how short a life it had until I looked it up. But we sure had fun while it lasted. We and our kids were young then and could do all the participation things it had to offer. Another place we enjoyed was Busch Gardens in Houston. It’s gone now too. I will be sad to see if the same thing happens to the Disney Theme Parks but if it does the Disney Corporation brought it on themselves. Walt had a great thing going. Some people really should live forever.
Chapek aka Paychek has to go. He’s been bringing Disney down since his first day in office. Kind of reminds me of Biden, after all he has been bringing the USA down since his first day in office.
Chap 7 Disney OK Scrap products & park visits
Been done with Disney for some time. SHAME on them
I have not supported Disney for years and will never again. Great article.
Not one more cent of my money will ever go to Disney as long as they maintain their wokeness!
The ONLY thing that ever hurts these type of people is–WHEN THE MONEY LEAVES THEM!! My children would NEVER have gone to Disney if I knew THEN, what I know NOW! My grandchildren will miss the opportunity to share Walt Disney’s hope, as they will go to other amusement parks. Let the 3-5% of the ALPHABET people make up the lost revenue. Parents will moan, groan, and complain and still give their monies to these UNGODLY people! You are either on the way or in the way!
Disney’s tentacles run deep and wide. Here are some of the things that Disney owns that do not have Disney’s name on them:
ESPN
ABC
Hulu
and others
What a GREAT article!
Thank You!
I grew up with Disney, like most of us. I was probably a bit more hardcore. I grew up near Disneyland. We watched the fireworks from the roof of our home in the summer. I knew Disney history, had many books, about the parks the artwork, and the films. Later on, when I had a family of my own, we had season passes. I would take my daughter, probably 3 times a week. Sometimes, would not even do any rides. Just an ice cream, sat down in New Orleans square in the rain, and watch the lights reflect off the wet pavement. It was beautiful, and smelled even better.
I’m saddened by what they have done with Walt’s legacy. Not a single dollar from me ever again. Done. The demons have taken over, and the Walt Disney company is now a lair of evil and pedophilia.
No responsible parent should do anything to enrich or support the pedophiles at Disney.
Disney CEO has lost his mind with the rest of the WOKE. Stay away from Disney; not worth the money. They don’t like kids; just the parents money.
Isn’t it time for a new Wizzardly-Land? After all, not all creative persons in this country are woke! I think Disneyland and Disneyworld need a new competitor, or two. I would start with a new “mouseketeers-like” launching pad. Old fashioned and outdated you say? Frankly, I seriously doubt that. What is it that makes kids happy? Take away the digital world and let them play with meaningful things again from the real world. Before Disneyland, there was kick-the-can, holly holly in free, red rover red rover, and the list goes on and on. My guess is that kids would enjoy such a departure from the world of digital make-believe in a true environment of inclusion. Blend some of that in with the world of magic and two things happen. First, the cost of the admission ticket will go down considerably whereby families can once again afford to take their children on a great enjoyable enchanted-land family trip. Second, the lessons of childhood pleasure and social interaction with all colors of people start to rekindle again. My color is WE! Are WE friends? If so, enough said, color is not a factor, nor should it be. Period.
Hopefully Disney will revert to their family value roots and move away from ‘Woke’ as a result of parental and wonderful Governor Desantis pushback. Looking back, this seems like a direct result of corporate adoption of Diversity and Inclusion. Only when every company goes back to hiring the best candidate based upon skills, experience and training regardless of race, gender or gender identification will we begin to heal from this cancer in our society. If you are a stockholder, vote your shares accordingly.
All that is Good is in the crosshairs of Evil. Look at what happened to the Boy Scouts of America. Like moths to flame, homosexual pedophiles (by definition – hardly any male homosexuals are pedophiles, but a male homosexual attracted to young boys are defacto pedophiles) collapsed the organization, shortly after homosexual orientation was deemed acceptable in Scoutmasters. It opened the doors. In the Church, Evil has made its way in as well, and not just with Catholicism. Why should Disney be any different? I can remember when the cover of the Alladin VHS had an erect golden dildo as a minaret in the background, but it was too soon. Now, it would be accepted. It has been years in the making.
Either band together and boycott disney back into sanity or surrender your children into the madness of the liberal ideological psychopathy this whole country is sinking into! DO IT NOW or be CONDEMNED to hammer and sickle hell!!
Disney has been corrupt for years. they have been pro homosexual for at least the last twenty years and even refused to give money to the boys scouts of America if they did not allow homo scout masters to lead those boys. If Walt Disney was around today he would be appalled and disgusted about what has happened to Disney. He would of never dreamed that this could of happened
I said goodbye to Disney in the 80s when they started putting so much satanic things in their movies and cartoons. They were subtle but they were there.
If Walt Disney were alive today all of these people running his company would be fired! The current Disney product is absolutely opposite everything that Walt Disney stood for and built!
This whole issue of Disney behaving this way is that they are absolutely wrong and wouldn’t have been anything if it wasn’t for the parents of children spending money on their movies and the hopes and dreams that they created for children. Disney should now be boycotted as far as I am concerned. I will not buy anymore of their stuff for my grandchildren that is for sure, and I hope others will stand up for their children and stop all this madness.
The basic problem is that pervs do not understand that they ARE pervs.
Bottom line, these pervs want to have their way with your children.
Sadly, this is the result of a hundred years of good people sitting back and allowing Communism to take root in America.
THIS is Communism: the Totalitarian perogative to order one how to live.
Do you all like it??? That have ignored this even when it was shoved under your noses in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s?
Too bad the rest of us have to suffer with the foul beings……
What can you expect? Disney is based in California! Hopefully enough people will boycott them. Not visit their parks, buy merchandise, attend movies. In other words – don’t buy anything Disney
I’m tired of these immoral,woke,policticly correct, spineless companies and executives who cave in to this ridiculous crap!!!
I’m boycotting any business who has no morals,ethics or American pride to tell them HELL NO!
How absurd to think they can dictate or force such reprehensible policies on FREE Citizens!
Disney is on it’s way to making X-rated movies and characters.
What is there to rethink? They have decided to be anti-traditional family values. Try Dollywood if you need a safe place to take your kids.
good thing since only a child molester or pervert would take a child to Disney’s pervert central.
Disney’s new hiring campaign: Are you a registered child molester. Are you on the sex crime watch list. Do you believe you do not know the difference between a boy and a girl? did you applaud the new California law making it legal to have sex with 14 year old children? Well Disney has exciting opportunities for you.
Yup you would have to be a really sick parent to take your children to a Disney facility.
Great article! Slightly off topic, but I’m going to be completely politically INCORRECT now, because this story is so sad (because of what Disney USED to be) as well as infuriating (for what Disney has becaome)! I know several black people who do NOT support BLM and several LGBTQ individuals who are absolutely fine NOT flaunting their lifestyle on anyone else. Based on current television commercials and print ads, since WHEN did our population become primarily black and LGBTQ? If you watch the commercials and/or read the ads, you’d swear the VAST majority of our country is either black or LGBTQ. This is ridiculous and just shows the stupidity of the “woke” companies (such as Disney), because it makes me NOT want to buy anything from them.
Governor DeSantis is removing the special tax status Disney has enjoyed all these years. They will now be paying the rightful share of taxes….go woke, go broke…He is just fantastic.
Not just Disney, but a lot of the world has lost it’s way. The only answer is God. Much of the problem starts with sex. God says one man, one woman, married. The world has turned it into anyone or anything or animal you want to relate with. Fornication, adultery, pornography have become the norm. No, I don’t want to deny rights to anyone, but I also don’t want to have it shoved into my life and style of living. Parents should start being parents and thinking less about their individual desires. Many can’t wait to have their child occupied in some way while they pursue their desires. Their desire may be an innocent visit with a friend, but if they aren’t paying attention to what their child is doing or being exposed to, they are derelict in their duty. I’m sure many people need to work to keep food on the table, but a lot of people work mostly for what money can buy.
Take the kids to see the ARK. I understand it’s a wonderful and educational exhibit. Disney is going to be too expensive for a lot of parents dealing with the inflation and all the worries that go with it. It has become a rich kids exhibit. Or should I say a playground for the Elite’s children, since Elite is the name the liberals choose to refer to themselves…
The woman(quota? and pronoun correct?) has been with Disney for a while but in another division. The attitude has been festering and now it comes to a head. She and Disney have been moving forward toward a branch of the New World Order. Stick Magic Mountain Magic where the sun doesn’t shine. I’ve got better places that I can spend my money. I mourn the death of Mickey,Minnie,Daffy, Pluto,Goofy,Daisy and so many others.