Statement from @GovRonDeSantis Office about today’s call from Disney regarding Florida’s parental rights in education bill:
pic.twitter.com/gN0ZdZpeKj
— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) March 9, 2022
Posted on 03/09/2022 8:16:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
One of the dumbest stories currently happening in the country involves the Parental Rights in Education bill, which recently made it through the Florida legislature. It is now headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk, and he’s promised to sign it into law.
So, why is a bill that simply provides more power to parents and more accountability to educators being so maligned? The answer is that it dares to disallow teaching sexual and gender ideology to Pre-K through third-grade students (that translates to ages 3-7). I know — the absolute horror of small children not being exposed to such things without parental involvement, right?
For their part, the mainstream media have falsely labeled the legislation the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which is a completely false description of what it actually says and does. Nowhere in the entire bill is the word “gay” mentioned, and DeSantis has been quick to point that out when reporters have tried to confront him on the matter.
Of course, since everything is stupid, Disney Corp. has now gotten involved, denouncing the bill publicly. That supposedly happened because employees were complaining; though, there’s precious little evidence of any real backlash. In other words, this appears to be another completely manufactured drama, pushed by a press apparently desperate to groom children. Regardless, after requesting a meeting with DeSantis, Disney CEO Bob Chapek received it in the form of a phone call on Thursday.
Here’s how that went.
JUST IN: Disney CEO Bob Chapek says he called Governor DeSantis this morning and conveyed his "disappointment" regarding the "Don't Say Gay" bill. He and Disney execs will meet with the Governor.
He adds that Disney is signing a statement opposing such legislation across US.
— Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta) March 9, 2022
Statement from @GovRonDeSantis Office about today’s call from Disney regarding Florida’s parental rights in education bill:
pic.twitter.com/gN0ZdZpeKj— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) March 9, 2022
I find this incredibly grating for two reasons.
One, if this leftwing corporate stooge can’t be bothered to actually read the bill, what business does he have even commenting on it, much less denouncing it? The allegations he’s pushing about what it does are completely false, and it appears DeSantis was more than willing to let him know that. This is a repeat of the Georgia voter law, where Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, and others rushed to oppose a version of it that didn’t actually exist.
Two, why is a private company attempting to dictate anything on this matter anyway? I get that Republicans are usually the party of big business, for better or worse, but count me out on that. If that makes me more of a populist than others, so be it. I have no patience for these woke corporations attempting to shove their deranged values down the throats of normal Americans.
Here’s the reality of the Parental Rights in Education bill. It’s an anti-grooming law and a very much-needed one, given some of the insanity we’ve seen recently. There is no justification for a teacher to ever speak to a small child about “gender ideology” and sexuality, and any adult wanting to do that should be investigated for pedophilia. Parents are not going to sit by and allow that kind of insanity to be normalized and pushed on their children. Some Republicans may cower in the face of the LGBT+ whatever lobby on these issues. DeSantis isn’t going to, and that’s the kind of leadership the GOP desperately needs more of.
To summarize, Disney can go jump in a lake. The voters and their representatives have spoken.
Uh oh. Disney better close down Disney World immediately to protest this horrible development. After all, isn’t a “clear conscience worth a few bucks” ?
too bad we don’t have a clone of him in GA.
Obvious transphobia, going back decades. Stop the madness.
Now they can go back to the left-wingers and said they tried, give a blanket statement that they support gays/trans, blah blah. Then they'll go back to making craploads full of money.
It is long past time for antitrust laws to be used to break up the big media companies, tech companies, and multinational corporations allied with big government and using their economic power to further the globalist agenda at the expense of the American middle class.
Many competitors in an industry result in lower prices for consumers and innovation as companies seek to differentiate themselves. Smaller companies have fewer resources to buy off politicians.
If Disney had honor, character, and believes in their BS, then close up shop and withdraw from Florida entirely.
Except that did not seem to be the case of the Standard Oil Trust
Or DC
Lake BuenaVista is nearby, and not terribly deep.
BTTT
“One, if this leftwing corporate stooge can’t be bothered to actually read the bill,”
Oh, they know exactly what is in it. The problem to them is that they believe 5-7 year olds SHOULD be taught about it. They want to get to them before puberty. The homos want to be first in the door to taint their innocent minds.
Once the Standard Oil Trust was broken up there was significantly mor competition in the oil industry.
“..If Disney had honor, character, and believes in their BS, then close up shop and withdraw from Florida entirely...”
And take pelosi with em....
You’re bad.
Well, Mr. Chapek needn’t worry. It’s not as though I plan to set foot in his parks until he gets his corporate scum head straight, anyhow.
Too late. I'm not riding his dumb monorails until he reverses his position and says he's sorry to all parents of small children.
This was more of an "awright, awright leftists...we'll send DeSantis a letter sheesh" kind of thing.
Because there's no way in Hell Disney is going to alienate the thousands of families that visit monthly. And they're not going to pull out of FL. They are not that woke.
There were all the same company
Disney has celebrated Gay Days for years.......
......Universal is the better park, although I’m not saying any of them are perfect
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