Yesterday, the Huffington Post reported that the Mouse made a big bold move in an article headlined, “Disney Pledges To Help Repeal ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill After Florida Gov. Signs It Into Law.”
Practically as soon as Governor DeSantis set down his signing pen after autographing the Parents’ Rights in Education bill, the entertainment and media giant responded on social media, promising not only to work to get the new law repealed but also to support lots of gay activist groups. The Big Mouse said:
Got that? Disney’s “goal as a company” is not to entertain your kids or make uplifting movies or whatever. Its goal is now to repeal a law protecting children. The new law forbids sexual education of children in kindergarten through third grade, and forbids schools from secretly transitioning children without parental consent and involvement. Which seems reasonable, but it has really hurt the feelings of LGBTQ++ activists, who’ve been screeching that this bill could frustrate their urges to discuss their sex lives and intimate habits with little children.
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Let's get one thing out of the way immediately: I don't support Disney OR DeSantis.
Like almost every social issue, symptoms get addressed instead of the disease.
Your lame and transparent straw man attack is nauseating. Disney has a political position, therefore you conclude that they don't make entertaining or uplifting movies? Have you always been retarded, or are you just totally dishonest? Since they are making money hand over fist, with millions of families loving their content, that makes you full of crap.
If you don't like Disney content, don't buy it. No one is going to notice or care.
A lot of LGBTQ people grew up with shitty environments at home and at school, and they are over-anxious to make certain that this does not happen to future generations of kids. They want to assure that shame and blame are not imposed on kids just for being who they are. Ignorance and denial factually were the only things being handed out to kids for years when it comes to any aspect of sex. Still is, in some places. If nothing ever changes, nothing ever improves.
Whether you like it or not, the entertainment industry attracts a lot of talent from marginalized people. When you attack Disney for it's position, you only give them ammunition to say: "See? We really ARE persecuted!"
While I can give them the benefit of the doubt that their intentions are good, the LGBTQ folks are their own worst enemies, playing right into the hands of dolts like DeSantis. Like all the other crap bag demagogues that came before him, he's just looking for a scapegoat. When you're fairly stupid, and your life is pathetic, what do you do? Find someone to feel superior to, someone to blame, someone to demonize. This is his audience, and this is what he's selling.
The issue isn't what should kids be taught in school. That debate began centuries ago. Plato insisted that audiences should only ever been shown depictions of virtue rewarded and vice punished. Aristotle disagreed, saying that negative impulses are in everyone, and that drama depicting such impulses provides catharsis, preventing the audience from acting out evil in real life.
Whether censorship does more harm than good is a debate unlikely to ever be resolved.
The question is not "what should children learn about sex, and when?", it is "who do children belong to, the government, or their parents?"
If they belong to their parents, then the answer is obvious. Abolish public schools, and make parents solely and completely responsible for the education of their children. No one is taxed to pay to send your kids to school, so they have no say about what your kids get taught.
You get to decide what to spend, what to teach, where to send them to what school if any. If your kid fails the standardized test, you lose custody, pay a fine, go to prison, and the kid goes to an orphanage. Simple.
The rules of mathematics and grammar aren't partisan issues.
Uh-oh! Disney’s last stronghold, its profitable theme parks, are beginning to show signs of flaccid weakness. From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal:
