A Disney executive in charge of content has promised at a company-wide meeting that at least half of the characters in its productions will be LGBT or from racial minorities by the end of the year. MailOnline has more.
General Entertainment President Karey Burke said during a company-wide Zoom call that Disney must do more to be more inclusive, as she vowed that 50% of characters and content would be from underrepresented groups.
Meanwhile, Disney’s diversity and inclusion chief Vivian Ware said that they no longer address theme park visitors as “ladies and gentleman, boys and girls” but instead as “dreamers” and “friends”.
Burke choked up during Monday, saying the issue hit close to home because of her children.
“I’m here as the mother of two queer children, actually, one transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader,” she said.
During the same all-hands meeting, television animation executive producer Latoya Raveneau gushed about Disney’s inclusivity and boasted about “adding queerness” to shows and productions.
“Our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my not-so-secret gay agenda,” she said. “Wherever I could I was adding queerness. No one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.”
Videos from the meeting were leaked to conservative journalist Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, who first reported them on Twitter.
The Mickey Mouse company has been roiled by protests, counter-protests and walkouts after Florida Gov. Ronald DeSantis signed the so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill into law. The legislation bans teaching kids lessons on sexuality, gender identity and sexual orientation “in a manner that is not age appropriate.”
Disney employees walked out of the company headquarters last week to protest the slow response to the Florida law. Parents hit the company from the other side for what they said was pandering to liberal politics…
The company has launched a campaign called “Reimagine Tomorrow” with the goal to represent more minority groups. “By 2022, 50% of regular and recurring characters across Disney General Entertainment scripted content will come from underrepresented groups,” according to the “Reimagine” promotional material.
Disney has reportedly reinstated a gay kiss in its upcoming Toy Story spinoff Lightyear amid the criticism. Hawthorne (pictured above), a character in the film, has a relationship with another female character.
Will Disney be the latest self-inflicted victim of go woke, go broke? Can’t see pansexuality and ‘queerness’ taking off as children’s and family entertainment somehow…
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As the comedian Jimmy Jones – not known for his political correctness – asked ‘if homosexuals can’t procreate how come there’s so many of them’?
Is it a saucepan, frying pan or just metal cooking and frying recepticles in general. I hope they clean them thoroughly when they have finished.
How about a BLT?
So BOTH of her children are “queer”? To have one may just be bad luck. To have two is child abuse.
She has 5 children. What’s your new judgement?
Disney, sadly, won’t go broke. However, this clearly shows that there is an agenda at play. Children should be free of all this nonsense rather than being dictated to.
“under represented” is also a nonsense term. 192 countries in the world and within them different dialects, religions, skin tones etc etc unless you account for every one of these in exactly the same manner at exactly the same time then some ‘group’ will be left out.
Who watches any of this cr*p anyway?
“Congratulations, you’ve given birth to twins”
“Male or female?”
“Please, mind you language. One transgender, one pan-sexual”
I thought Disney was for little ones. Surely this cannot be right. So pleased Disney was unable to build one of their monstrosities here in the UK. Avoid.
I was trying to get my head around some of the terms used: pansexual vs bisexual for instance, so Googled it. I wish I hadn’t, life’s too short! There are apparently 11 different sexualities and 52 recognised genders.
WTF?
How can someone be a ‘pansexual child’ unless they are the victim of abuse by numerous adults? ‘Pansexual’ is the fashionable word for promiscuity.
So the majority effectively become the minority. What is this going to teach children? “You are abnormal if you are not gay or trans and you are incredibly abnormal if you are white”.
“half of the characters in its productions ”
Are they trying to force us to join the LGBT lot or simply make perversion acceptable?
The last decent Disney offering was The Lion King ….. and that wasn’t a patch on Snow White, Bambi or The Jungle Book. Never went to their awful theme parks and never will.
I’m glad I don’t have young kids now …. but if I did, I’d be keeping them well away from Disney Indoctrination.
Dear God. They do know children watch their stuff don’t they.
Please will someone tell me what ‘pansexual’ is?
Time for western ‘civilisation’ to recede honourably into the past. Barbarism has returned.
Excuse me as I throw up…
What the heck is a pansexual child??? And do we want that portrayed in films aimed at children?
Thank god my kids are now adults and I won’t have to endure endless showings of the woke crap
I haven’t watched anything from Disney for a long time, I’m surprised they output is still so popular, or is it?
Well, it’s clear that ever since they made Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 that Disney have not been quite as innocently childlike as they would have had us believe..
Whatever happened to the ‘innocence of childhood’?
Trans wasn’t even a ‘thing’ when l grew up.
Can’t help but feel this divisive agenda is being delivered across the Western world in lockstep, and I’m really uncomfortable at attempts to normalise abnormal behaviour.
But, perhaps, that’s the point.
Peter-trans-Pan, anyone?
Exactly that: the agenda creates division and chaos. They are front loading that chaos so that the measures required by the New World Order will be easier to impose
If they touch Grogu that is the end! Period, its over.
Now De Santis is after them, live on Tucker. If they thought moving to Florida from California was a good idea, they might have to think again.
It seems Disney is no longer a viable business but a platform for the personal agenda of its boss.
If both your kids are on the queer spectrum, surely one might examine ones ability as a parent rather than ruining a once great company.
Where does it say that? She has five kids. I thought us lot on this site would’ve learnt to do some reading before jumping to conclusions, but alas it seems there is still some way to go yet.
If I get a downtick for a factual statement, does that say more about me, or the mental capacity of the downticker?
If you want keep believing she only has two children, that they’re both young and both queer – go ahead. Please don’t mind me if I start drawing parallels between you and the Karens that get triggered when they see someone without a mask though… only two degrees of separation.
I didn’t downtick you. I thought us lot on this site would’ve learnt to do some reading before jumping to conclusions.
Gosh, that sounds familiar………
Wasn’t suggesting you did 🙂
“If you want keep believing she only has two children”
Your comment was clearly directed at me.
BTW, It looks more convincing if you don’t reply to yourself……..🙄
I have no idea what you mean. Since I was commenting on a downtick on my own post, that was the perfect post to reply to.
Yet, referring to me directly.
“If you want keep believing she only has two children”
Stop squirming, it’s undignified.
It wasn’t directed at you, it was directed at the downticker, that’s why I was replying to my own post.
“If you want keep believing she only has two children, that they’re both young and both queer – go ahead. Please don’t mind me if I start drawing parallels between you and the Karens that get triggered when they see someone without a mask though… only two degrees of separation.”
There is absolutely no doubt that post was directed at me.
Kindly have the dignity to admit you were wrong to jump to the conclusion that it was me who down ticked you.
LOL. I think you’re just struggling to understand how wordpress message boards work. You can believe that if you want, I honestly don’t care what an angry tomato thinks.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s92UMJNjPIA
Jeremy’s Razors: The Greatest Commercial Ever
Anti-woke advertising from the boss of the Daily Wire.
Smack Talk: Gillette The Best Men Can Be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzpx9VX9hoI
Just remember these are the very same people happy to censor the sight of a nipple (not to mention some other body parts).
Any too-large-to-fail company which is way beyond competitive pressure is going to be invaded by people seeking to utilize its resources to further their political agendas. OTOH, I don’t quite understand how Produce gay soft porn for distribution to underage children would qualify as legitimate, political agenda. In any case, it’s a very peculiar contemporary American dream.
“Any too-large-to-fail company which is way beyond competitive pressure is going to be invaded by people seeking to utilize its resources to further their political agendas.”
Yes, they are all at it to a greater or lesser degree.
One man’s legitimate political agenda is another man’s illegitimate one. I am never quite sure the extent to which any of these tossers believe the crap they come out with or whether it’s just convenience, latching on to whatever the current fad is in order to exercise power over people. For example, I doubt the PM really gives a toss about climate change.
Get Woke, Go Broke.
Not long until Scotland changes its name to Northern Iraq.
Burke by name….
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I wonder which came first her belief in all this or her childrens preferences and beliefs.
A recent job ad I saw: “We are interested in people based in the UK, especially people of the global majority, with relevant skills….”
I guess Disney being global could say that they want to reflect the global population, but the job ad I saw was for UK, yet they want people of the “global majority” (by which they mean non-white people of course) which is not in any way at all the UK majority
in the extortion funded sector or something selling we can boycott?
A charity, sadly. Quite a good one in many ways, niche. I did ask them for their thinking but they pretended to lose my email.