Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Ben Shapiro: The Left is the Culture War Aggressor

Last week, reporter Christopher Rufo released footage of top Disney employees vowing to inject their radical LGBTQ agenda into children's programming. Disney producer Latoya Raveneau told an all-hands meeting that her team works to push a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" in programming aimed at kids and sought to add "queerness" to such content. Disney corporate president Karey Burke announced that she was the mother of "one transgender child and one pansexual child" and that she would try to achieve a quota system whereby half of all Disney characters would be LGBTQ or people of color. Disney diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware stated that Disney's beloved theme parks would be eliminating any mention of "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls."

        This prompted a well-deserved firestorm for the Mouse House. Disney has long been Left-wing on social issues -- but in the aftermath of ginned-up controversy surrounding Florida's Parental Rights in Education bill, which protects small children from indoctrination on sexual orientation and gender identity, an angry coterie of employees pushed management to signal fealty even harder. So Disney's brass did, announcing that they opposed the Florida bill and then turning over the company to its most radical contingent.

        And people reacted. #BoycottDisney began to trend on social media. We at the Daily Wire committed to spending $100 million to develop children's content that would be safe for kids -- content dedicated to traditional values, where parents wouldn't have to worry about prescreening content for messages about nonbinary 5-year-olds.

        The Left, caught with its hand in the kiddie jar, immediately swiveled and accused the Right of initiating this culture war. Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times lamented that she felt terrible for Raveneau, who, after all, was just "step(ping) up to defend the company's queer friendliness, only to become a national object of right-wing fury and disgust," and whose injection of LGBTQ propaganda into children's content was "sweetly anodyne." CNN hosted Washington Post transgender columnist Charlotte Clymer, adding the chyron "LGBT COMMUNITY LATEST TO BE CAUGHT IN CULTURE WAR." The takeaway, according to the social Left, is that anyone who defends traditionalism in child-rearing -- or anyone who simply doesn't want children turned into targets of sexual propagandizing -- is the true cultural aggressor.

        This is a transparent lie. And it's a lie that won't redound to the benefit of those who seek radical change. If they wish to pose the rubric of gay rights against parental rights, gay rights are likely to suffer. If they wish to suggest that LGBTQ freedom extends to teachers initiating children into sexual conversations without parental permission, parents are unlikely to go along for the ride. For decades, the social Left has made inroads by arguing that they simply want to be left alone. The Right, by contrast, has argued that the Left's agenda is far broader, that the Left demands cultural celebration of its sexual mores and that it will stop at nothing to remake society in order to achieve its narcissistic goals. Disney's latest foray into the culture wars proves that the Right was correct, that the Left's stated agenda was a lie and that its "not-at-all-secret" agenda targeted the most vulnerable Americans.

        Disney shows no signs of backing away from the extremism its all-hands meeting unmasked before the world. And other corporations are following Disney's lead, pushing wild Left advocacy instead of catering to the broadest possible market. For too long, Americans have planted their heads firmly in the sand, hoping that the forces of the free market would militate against the cultural hijacking of corporate institutions. Instead, corporations built by entrepreneurs have been hijacked by woke employees and a feckless managerial class. The blowback will be real, and it should be real. And if that means parents swearing off Mickey Mouse, increasingly they will.

        Ben Shapiro, 38, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers "How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps," "The Right Side Of History," and "Bullies." To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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20 comments:

Anonymous said...

This boy Ben has zero self awareness. What a joke.

Anonymous said...

This is mental illness. Pure and simple.

I am all about letting people love who they want, but good lord this is the slippery slope that every old person screamed about when Katy Perry kissed a girl.

Anonymous said...

Any institutions whose focus is the entertainment, care, or education of young children will find the LGBTQ+ advocates moving into prominence. It is not a coincidence and should not be taken lightly. It is not a part of their agenda, it IS the agenda. Sexual/gender confusion will become the accepted norm in less than three generations.

Anonymous said...

Disney’s vigilant push is decades old but has gone into a new gear. I’m glad it is exposed.

Anonymous said...

Walt Disney would have burned Disneyland to the ground if he had seen what it has become! Liberal news ABC is part of Disney too.

And 6:37 PM is completely correct. This is the LGBTQ+ advocates mantra.
Push, Push, Push until stopped! Right. Right.

Anonymous said...

Who the hell is reading anything from Ben Shapiro? Supertalk MS pick him up about a year ago and it has been downhill from there.

Anonymous said...

Disney gets the ultimate tax break. It is a municipality unto itself. No outside regulation but free to receive 100s of millions in Federal and State aid over the years. Disney also got the copyright expiration laws changed.
Put Disney on an even plane as every other business. No municipal handouts and Mickey and friends become public domain.

Treat Disney like any other business.

Anonymous said...

i'm sorry that gay people make you mouth-breathers sad.

Anonymous said...

Snappy retort 9:23. No logic, no reason, and certainly no facts, but a snappy retort.

Anonymous said...

@9:23 PM
I would be more tolerant if you people would leave the kids alone.
Why can’t you just leave the kids alone?

Anonymous said...

The sooner that society accepts the concept that consent doesn’t require any certain age, the better. Law enforcement resources can be redirected away from fictitious “child abuse” and toward real crimes like antisemitism and hate speech.

Anonymous said...

We've finally reached the point where the masks have come off and perverts admit they're coming for the children. (Literally. And in more ways than one.) "Told ya so" is so inadequate. Equally disgusting are their defenders, including the commenters above.

Anonymous said...

And these same employees will be unemployed due to low ticket sales soon enough. Plenty other theme parks in this country. No one is buying the gay yoda......or the trans jedi bullshit.

Anonymous said...

9:23 : Wrong, it's gay activism that makes normal regular gays sad. It's like the class clown getting the whole class screwed out of recess.

Anonymous said...

6:24, please say this is sarcastic.

Anonymous said...

Hmsxl/trans/etc promoters rob the alphabet and the calendar at will, ruin women's sports,have even snatched our color spectrum and threaten to groom our children.

Why not call them all "Q", assign them one Q-day per year on Mardi Gras for Q-Olympics and give them a gender only by biology of male or female, take back the rainbow for normal folks, then give the Q 'community' mud for their color, after forbidding them from schools?

Anonymous said...

I have no doubt 6:24 is dead serious, if not there are plenty who do actually believe that.

Anonymous said...

What they banned was any gendered talk so truthfully you can’t call anyone a boy or girl in Florida now. Also any talk of heterosexual relationships is expressly banned. So any tv, or movie, that shows a man kiss a woman should be banned unequivocally. Education if any kind surrounding relationships, gender, etc. is completely banned so prepare yourself with non-gendered pronouns when teaching in Florida schools or you can be sued

Anonymous said...

@1:02
Whatever it takes to stop pedo creeps from grooming children. The leftists who are sexualizing children got us to this point. Sane people are clearly willing to figuratively burn it all down and salt the earth in order to protect their children’s innocence and just let them be kids.

Anonymous said...

The only age groups the new Florida law affects are K-3. If you're a teacher I see no reason to have any conversation with any child about any sexual issue whatsoever.


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