Disney has harmed investors with ‘woke’ agenda pushing ‘anti-police and anti-White content’: letter
NY Post
Conservative nonprofit America First Legal accused Disney of hurting its own shareholders with a “woke” political agenda that has its family friendly programs pushing “anti-police and anti-White content.”
The 50-page letter — penned by former US Department of Justice member and AFL’s senior vice president Reed Rubinstein — notes that Disney+ programming such as its “Rise Up, Sing Out” cartoon “tells young children that ‘racism in the world affects me and you’ and that their skin color is what defines them.”
This “woke virtue signaling” has had “economic and reputational consequences,” Rubinstein wrote, adding that since February 2021, Disney’s market cap has fallen nearly 40% — from $341 billion to $207 billion.
Elsewhere, an episode of “Muppet Babies” depicts Gonzo — a bird-like creature originally thought to be a boy — struggling to tell his friends that he wants to wear a dress to a party.
“He ultimately rejects societal norms and his biology by cross-dressing as the princess named ‘Gonzo-rella,’ whom the other Muppets celebrate,” Rubinstein wrote in the letter, which was sent to Disney executives Wednesday morning.
The note seeks to encourage Disney to ditch its progressive agenda and get back to its roots, which the company abandoned “in hopes of placating an insatiable activist movement that aims to radically reshape the Disney brand into something that is completely inconsistent with its history,” AFL executive director Gene Hamilton said.
