{"id":436794,"date":"2022-04-23T00:48:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/disney-totally-earned-its-slapdown-from-florida-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T00:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T21:48:48","slug":"disney-totally-earned-its-slapdown-from-florida-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/disney-totally-earned-its-slapdown-from-florida-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Disney totally earned its slapdown from Florida lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25902ba5e2e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25902ba5e2e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/disney-totally-earned-its-slapdown-from-florida-lawmakers\/#%E2%80%9CDisney_totally_earned_its_slapdown_from_Florida_lawmakers%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Disney totally earned its slapdown from Florida lawmakers&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDisney_totally_earned_its_slapdown_from_Florida_lawmakers%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Disney totally earned its slapdown from Florida lawmakers&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Just like that, tyranny has descended on Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The state legislature, with the support of\u00a0Gov. Ron DeSantis, voted to repeal the \u201cspecial independent district\u201d enjoyed by Disney for half-a-century.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a sign, we are told, of the advent of an American authoritarianism that brooks no dissent \u2014 Disney criticizes a measure supported by the Florida GOP, the so-called \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill, and im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely gets targeted.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason this fight escalated to this point, though. Disney was the aggressor in the battle over the education bill, lied about it and pledged to work to repeal it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even though the bill had nothing to do with Disney whatsoever \u2014 nothing to do with its product, its business model or its employees. The company got pushed into its stance based on pressure from a woke segment of its employees and from progressives on the outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s case against the bill relied on the smear that the legislation somehow threatened gay or trans people. In fact, the law merely seeks to exclude in<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate material from being taught to young children in the classroom \u2014 an objective that once would have been considered utterly banal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClassroom instruction,\u201d the law says, \u201cby school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ron-DeSantis-6.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\" class=\"wp-image-22006350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ron-DeSantis-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ron-DeSantis-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ron-DeSantis-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis supported the measure. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Based on that, Disney went to the mattresses. And it did so, not to serve its shareholders, enhance its profitability, protect its intellectual property or align itself with its vast and politically diverse customer base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was, shockingly, an iconic American brand making itself into a free-floating weapon of woke cultural politics in response to the social and political influence of a small number of vocal progressives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like so many companies before, Disney calculated the risk\/reward of gratuitously taking up a left-wing\u00a0political and cultural fight and considered it all reward, no risk. The Florida legislature decided to convince it that it was wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Florida-Disney-02.jpg?w=683\" alt=\"Florida billboard\" class=\"wp-image-22006376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Florida-Disney-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1366 1366w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Florida-Disney-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Florida-Disney-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683 683w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Florida-Disney-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"\/><figcaption>Disney had spoken out against the  so-called \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill in Florida.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Republicans have fantasized about exacting revenge on woke corporations before, but to no effect. Disney\u2019s problem is that it had a glaring vulnerability in the form of an arrangement that can easily be portrayed as a special favor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The provisions allowing Disney to govern itself in its special independent district are so extensive that one analyst refers to the so-called Reedy Creek Improvement District as \u201cthe Vatican with mouse ears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever before or since has such outlandish dominion been given to a private corporation,\u201d the Florida writer Carl Hiaasen notes in his book \u201cTeam Rodent.\u201d \u201cDisney owns its own utilities. It administers its own planning and zoning. It composes its own building codes and employs its own inspectors. It maintains its own fire department. It even has the authority to levy taxes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For good measure, it can build its own airport and nuclear power plant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, that\u2019s all scheduled to go away in a year\u2019s time. Obviously, it is not a good practice for government to retaliate against a business, even a business enjoying a special status.<\/p>\n<p>This fight could have welcome effects, though, if it convinces Disney it made a mistake by allowing itself to get bullied and cajoled into becoming a combatant in the culture war, and convinces other corporations that there\u2019s a potential price to be paid for joining woke mobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Florida-Disney.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Disney\" class=\"wp-image-22006396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Florida-Disney.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Florida-Disney.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Florida-Disney.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Florida writer Carl Hiaasen previously noted what Disney could do with the special status.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Republicans don\u2019t want corporations to become tools in advancing <em>their<\/em> agenda; they just want them to exit the culture wars and focus, once again, on their business, an outcome that would lower the temperature in the country\u2019s cultural fights at least a little.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, Disney and the Florida legislature work out a renewal of the company\u2019s special district before it is set to expire, and that the house of mouse \u2014 and other corporations seduced into making themselves de facto left-wing pressure groups \u2014 resolves to stick to its core competency and mission.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichLowry\">@RichLowry<\/a><\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The state legislature, with the support of\u00a0Gov. Ron DeSantis, voted to repeal the \u201cspecial independent district\u201d enjoyed by Disney for half-a-century.\u00a0 This is a sign, we are told, of the advent of an American authoritarianism that brooks no dissent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":436795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/newspress-collage-22005427-1650660348001.png?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[128343,76011,1648,1569,6642,42559,57715],"class_list":["post-436794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-22-22","tag-culture-war","tag-disney-world","tag-disney","tag-florida","tag-gay","tag-gender-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}