The Sad Collapse and Corruption of Disney's (Woke) World

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Sitting behind his wooden desk inside his Burbank-based Suite 3H office
back in 1961, Walt Elias Disney – the founder and chairman of the
burgeoning company bearing his name – was asked if he could share the
formula for the empire’s wild success.

“I don’t really know,” he said. “I guess I’m an optimist. I’m not in the
business to make unhappy pictures. I love comedy too much. I’ve always
loved comedy. Another thing. Maybe it’s because I can still be amazed at
the wonders of the world.”

Within five years, Walt Disney would be dead, never living to see the
opening of the company’s second park and resort in Orlando. At the time of
his death in December of 1966, Walt’s shoestring enterprise, born after a
series of failures, was valued at $100 million. As of last year, the
company’s revenues exceeded $67 billion.

But all that glitters is not gold – and the true health of a company is
not only calculated in dollars, but how it helps or hurts the people it
serves.

On that score, few companies have fallen as far as the once wonderful
world of Disney – which is anything but wonderful today.

Footage of a leaked company-wide Zoom call confirms Disney’s desire to
embrace an agenda that deliberately and blatantly rejects a Christian
worldview of the family, as well as God’s view of human sexuality.

The meeting was held in response to the Florida legislature’s passage and
Governor Ron DeSantis’ signing of HB 1557 – a bill that prohibits state
teachers from introducing or pushing LGBT topics on children in
kindergarten through the third grade. Critics of the legislation, along
with willing accomplices in the press, have erroneously and deceptively
and deceitfully labeled it as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

In reality, it’s common-sense legislation that recognizes parents reserve
the absolute right to decide when and what their children are to be taught
about such sensitive issues.

But Karey Burke, president of Disney’s General Entertainment Content,
feels strongly that if children aren’t going to be propagandized in
school, they should be brainwashed and confused via Disney entertainment.

“I’m here as a mother of two queer children, actually,” Burke told
employees. “One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a
leader.”

Burke went on to say she is committed to Disney producing content that
features “underrepresented” individuals.

“We have many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories, and yet we don’t
have enough leads, and narratives in which gay characters just get to be
characters,” she said.

During another portion of the call, Disney’s “diversity and inclusion”
manager, Vivian Ware bragged about discontinuing the use of the phrases
“ladies and gentlemen” and “boys and girls” from announcements at their
theme parks.

Many of us have warm and cherished memories of watching Disney movies and
cartoons or maybe even taking a big family vacation to a Disney theme
park. Sadly, that Disney is now long gone.

The Disney brand was once so beloved and ubiquitous in the world that the
name “Mickey Mouse” was used as the password for entrance into Allied
Supreme Headquarters in Europe on D-Day in 1944.

“Disneyland will never be completed as long as there is imagination left
in the world,” Walt Disney once said.

Tragically, God’s gift of “imagination” has been deeply corrupted in this
case, bringing to mind the words and warning of the apostle Paul to
believers in Rome:

“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God,” he wrote, “God gave
them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done” (1:28).

As parents, many of us appreciate entertainment for children that feature
gentle and innocent themes. There will be enough time for our kids to be
exposed to the harsh realities of a broken world. We don’t need sinister
or confused screenwriters corrupting the beautiful minds of our young
ones.

To be sure, Disney’s slide has not been sudden, nor has it been all at
once. For years, Christian parents have been faced with the dilemma of how
(or if) to navigate the corrupt and collapsed culture of a one-time family
friendly brand. In the end, it might be a small world after all for all of
us – but for believers, especially, it’s an increasingly wicked and
depraved one.

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