We Should Talk About Disney
by Trevin Wax, TGC:
The Walt Disney Company has hopped into a heap of controversy, prompted at first by the company’s official opposition of a Florida bill, and now amplified by testimony from anonymous employees about the organization’s chilling effect on political and social conservatives as well as jaw-dropping videos of Disney creatives acknowledging their desire to insert “queerness” and LGBT+ storylines wherever they can in Disney movies.
In response, some have called for boycotts. (The Southern Baptists were ahead of the curve on this, passing a resolution in 1996 that called for a multiyear boycott. That protest petered out around the time Disney partnered with Walden to release the first Narnia movie in 2005.) Others seek to pressure the company to step back from tarnishing its reputation as the world’s biggest and most beloved provider of family-friendly entertainment.
The Difference with Disney
Recently, a growing number of companies have aligned publicly with agendas on the political left, often at the behest of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officers and HR departments. Some commentators now label this phenomenon “woke capitalism,” and conservatives worry about the results when both big government and big business unite around new and contested ideologies about gender and sexuality.
But the Disney trouble is different.
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