DeSantis appoints Parental Advocate to Oversee Disney district. The person who started the "don't say gay'" bill is now putting Disney in check.
Disney starts looking at more character for them to get rid of because of modern politics.
Bob Chapek straight up called DeSantis and asked him what to do about the insane politics at Disney before he public went against "Don't Say Gay'" bill. It looks like he was being fired no matter what, and did this as a way to get a better contract out of the deal.
Based on the evidence given, it looks like the internal politics at Disney are so fierce they are destroying any way to get out of their own problems. Even the leaders are being forced to follow these ideals. It's a very public meltdown of a once mighty company.
Disney has been totally taken over by LGBT activists and general Democrat activists, who specifically targeted the institution because of its cultural importance and relevance to children, specifically.
The Left has clearly been targeting children for the past 20 years or so, and within the last 10 years, massively ramped up and became far more aggressive in targeting children for indoctrination specifically. Getting them young and stupid, unable to use logic and reason to reject leftist ideology, and then permanently burn a cognitive bias into their minds in favor of the Left, is immensely powerful and they know it. Even various younger generation "right wingers" often harbor a lot of left wing viewpoints because they're too stupid to have purged 100% of them, even if they've figured out and overturned some of the bigger ones.
The Left is very savvy when it comes to gaming the system and propaganda. They have almost the entire intellectual class doing nothing but figuring out ways to manipulate stupid people in every way possible, while there is no counter-balance on the Right.
Disney needs to just be crushed into nothing as a company, to be made an example of. Let the Daily Wire come in later and buy up its IP in a bankruptcy sale and rip all the woke shit out.
This subversion will continue to be a problem, if not by Disney then by another beast. A Disney Co. without Walt Disney is an empty shell and will naturally become a vehicle for whatever more motivated cause can seize it.
Make corporations give up creative IP. The idea of copyright was to reward original works of art, not to line the pockets of businessmen and IP attorneys.
Hell, if I had the power, I'd legislate IPs to go public domain if no longer held by the creator, and there were signs of total franchise abuse that were neither entertaining nor profitable.
First of all, I completely agree with both points. I just wanted to comment on this one in particular:
Disney co. had a period of time when they did amazingly without Walt. The Disney Rennaissance of the late 80s into the late 90s produced several animated masterpieces that were worthy of the name. Clearly whoever was the creative steward at the time, cared about Disney's legacy. Star Trek had a similar phenomenon with Rick Berman carrying on Gene Roddenberry and Gene Coon's legacies.
Ultimately though, I don't think that either of those situations will repeat. Both media brands got extremely lucky. I don' think that Disney (or Star Trek) for that matter are ultimately salvageable. I think that creative people need to take inspiration from what was good about them, and make wholly originally brands.
That's how George Lucas made Indy and Star Wars. He put in stuff he liked, and made visuals for it. He also lucked out by having Harrison Ford.
True, I remember being a kid and getting all their "special edition will never be sold again on VHS!" tapes. :) I guess there's always a golden era - once. Rather than wokeness causing brokeness, the infestation of activists often follows the downturn of a company, when the good employees have already left or see the writing on the wall.
That would be a site to behold.
Never call it "Don't Say Gay." It's a bill restricting children's school curriculum from sexualizing children.
It's all a show. All the politicians and Di sand toes