{"id":5135,"date":"2022-07-04T13:59:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T14:26:39","slug":"disney-is-interested-in-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/youth\/disney-is-interested-in-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Is Interested in Your Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo by Octavio Jones\/Getty Images<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entertainment company pledges to embed radical sexual politics in its children\u2019s programming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Last year, I reported<\/a> on Disney\u2019s critical race theory\u2013based diversity program, which taught employees that America was founded on \u201csystemic racism,\u201d separated minorities into racially segregated \u201caffinity groups,\u201d and encouraged white employees to complete a \u201cwhite privilege checklist.\u201d Now, I have obtained exclusive video from inside Disney that outlines its campaign to embed left-wing sexual politics into its children\u2019s programming and entertainment facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of Florida\u2019s Parental Rights in Education legislation, which prevents public schools from promoting gender ideology in kindergarten through third grade but which critics call the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill, Disney executives organized an all-hands meeting, called the \u201cReimagine Tomorrow Conversation Series,\u201d and pledged to mobilize the entire corporation in service of the \u201cLGBTQIA+ community.\u201d Executives recruited the company\u2019s most intersectional employees, including a \u201cblack, queer, and trans person,\u201d a \u201cbi-romantic asexual,\u201d and \u201cthe mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child,\u201d and announced ambitious new initiatives\u2014seeking to change everything from gender pronouns at the company\u2019s theme parks to the sexual orientation of background characters in the company\u2019s films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a featured presentation at the meeting, executive producer Latoya Raveneau laid out Disney\u2019s ideology in blunt terms. She said her team was implementing a \u201cnot-at-all-secret gay agenda\u201d and regularly \u201cadding queerness\u201d to children\u2019s programming. Another speaker, production coordinator Allen Martsch, said his team has created a \u201ctracker\u201d to ensure that they are creating enough \u201ccanonical trans characters, canonical asexual characters, [and] canonical bisexual characters.\u201d Corporate president Karey Burke said she supported having \u201cmany, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories\u201d and reaffirmed the company\u2019s pledge to make at least 50 percent of its on-screen characters sexual and racial minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ideological campaign also extended to the company\u2019s theme parks in Anaheim and Orlando. As diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware explained, Disney made the decision last year to eliminate all mentions of \u201cladies,\u201d \u201cgentlemen,\u201d \u201cboys,\u201d and \u201cgirls\u201d in order to create \u201cthat magical moment\u201d for children who do not identify with traditional gender roles. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to just assume because someone might be, in our interpretation, presenting as female, that they may not want to be called \u2018princess,\u2019\u201d Ware said. By eliminating \u201cgendered greetings,\u201d Disney believes, the company can help make it \u201cmagical and memorable for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Disney hosted Nadine Smith, the executive director of a pressure group called Equality Florida, who told employees that Governor Ron DeSantis and his press secretary, Christina Pushaw, wanted to \u201cerase you,\u201d \u201ccriminalize your existence,\u201d and \u201ctake your kids\u201d\u2014a wild conspiracy theory with no basis in fact. The company\u2019s executives threw their full weight behind Equality Florida\u2019s effort, promising to use its significant political and financial resources to repeal the Parental Rights in Education law and the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which prohibits public and private institutions from racialist discrimination and abuse in classrooms and the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, after my report on Disney\u2019s critical race theory training program, Disney quickly deleted<\/a> it from the company\u2019s internal servers. But executives did not abandon identity politics. In fact, they added another component\u2014gender ideology\u2014and ramped it up. Executives have empowered activists within the company and now seem unable to resist their demands. Observers should watch Disney closely in the coming years. However the story ends, the company looks like a case study in ideological capture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Christopher F. Rufo<\/a> | Original Article Here<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by Octavio Jones\/Getty Images The entertainment company pledges to embed radical sexual politics in its children\u2019s programming. Last year, I reported on Disney\u2019s critical race theory\u2013based diversity program, which taught employees that America was founded on \u201csystemic racism,\u201d separated minorities into racially segregated \u201caffinity groups,\u201d and encouraged white employees to complete a \u201cwhite privilege checklist.\u201d Now, I …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}