{"id":513984,"date":"2022-11-22T03:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wokeness-has-cost-disney-world-cup-blesses-authoritarianism-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T03:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T00:13:39","slug":"wokeness-has-cost-disney-world-cup-blesses-authoritarianism-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-has-cost-disney-world-cup-blesses-authoritarianism-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Wokeness has cost Disney, World Cup blesses authoritarianism and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a3ab7902bee5\" 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-6a3ab7902bee5\" 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\/wokeness-has-cost-disney-world-cup-blesses-authoritarianism-and-other-commentary\/#%E2%80%9CWokeness_has_cost_Disney_World_Cup_blesses_authoritarianism_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Wokeness has cost Disney, World Cup blesses authoritarianism and other commentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-has-cost-disney-world-cup-blesses-authoritarianism-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_Right_Wokeness_Has_Cost_Disney\" >From the Right: Wokeness Has Cost Disney<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-has-cost-disney-world-cup-blesses-authoritarianism-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_The_Midterms_Democracy\" >Conservative: The Midterms &amp; Democracy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-has-cost-disney-world-cup-blesses-authoritarianism-and-other-commentary\/#Climate_beat_%E2%80%98Absurd_Blame_for_Rich_Nations\" >Climate beat: \u2018Absurd\u2019 Blame for Rich Nations<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-has-cost-disney-world-cup-blesses-authoritarianism-and-other-commentary\/#Libertarian_World_Cup_Blesses_Authoritarianism\" >Libertarian: World Cup Blesses Authoritarianism<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wokeness-has-cost-disney-world-cup-blesses-authoritarianism-and-other-commentary\/#Schools_watch_Conservative_Education_Agenda\" >Schools watch: Conservative Education Agenda<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWokeness_has_cost_Disney_World_Cup_blesses_authoritarianism_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Wokeness has cost Disney, World Cup blesses authoritarianism and other commentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-Goodbye-Mickey-Mouse-Hello-Woke.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_Right_Wokeness_Has_Cost_Disney\"><\/span><strong>From the Right: Wokeness Has Cost Disney<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cLife at the Walt Disney Company is not the fairytale it used to be,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2022\/11\/21\/disneys-woke-crusade-is-costing-it-dearly\/\">reports Spiked\u2019s Laurie Wastell<\/a>. Its \u201cexpenses and operating losses are skyrocketing\u201d at a time when Disney \u201cseems to have gone into overdrive to promote woke causes, both on screen and off.\u201d The company got into a \u201cbruising battle\u201d with Florida Gov. Rod DeSantis over the Parental Rights in Education Act \u2014 which banned lessons on \u201c\u2018sexual orientation or gender identity\u2019\u201d for kids under 10 \u2014 that nearly cost its <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\">theme<\/a> parks a \u201cspecial tax status\u201d it had since 1967. Championing woke political causes is \u201cclearly damaging its relationship with audiences.\u201d Disney is learning that \u201cwhile \u2018message <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>\u2019 seem to delight woke critics,\u201d they turn off filmgoers \u201cwho want to be entertained rather than lectured.\u201d Disney\u2019s \u201cwoke posturing\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-justice messaging [are] no substitute for imaginative and compelling storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_The_Midterms_Democracy\"><\/span><strong>Conservative: The Midterms &amp; Democracy<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cDemocracy-in-peril alarmists, for whom Trumpism and MAGA Republicanism represent . . . an existential threat,\u201d aren\u2019t the only folks taking solace from the midterm results, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/19\/opinion\/midterms-democracy.html\">argues The New York Times\u2019 Russ Douthat<\/a>. A \u201cnon-alarmist\u201d skeptical of claims \u201cthat the United States is on the brink of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/nov\/06\/how-close-is-the-us-to-civil-war-barbara-f-walter-stephen-march-christopher-parker\">low-grade civil war<\/a>, that Jan. 6 never ended and the right won\u2019t accept any election result that doesn\u2019t go its way,\u201d saw \u201cmost Republican candidates\u201d who lost \u201cconceding entirely normally, the MAGA candidates included,\u201d and \u201cGeorgia, supposedly ground zero for the new Jim Crow, delivering normal turnout,\u201d plus \u201ca continued migration of minority voters into the Republican Party, suggesting that the country is actually growing less polarized by race. And a conspicuous absence of the kind of violence that the new-civil-war prognosticators keep expecting.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Climate_beat_%E2%80%98Absurd_Blame_for_Rich_Nations\"><\/span><strong>Climate beat: \u2018Absurd\u2019 Blame for Rich Nations<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The argument \u201cthat, since countries that industrialized earlier produced a lot of carbon,\u201d they now \u201cowe a debt to poorer states,\u201d appeals to \u201cMarxists, anti-colonialists, and shakedown artists,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/demands-for-climate-reparations-are-laughable\">fumes Dan Hannan at the Washington Examiner<\/a>. And \u201cCOP27 has been dominated by insolent demands for well-run states to pony up.\u201d In reality, many oft-cited \u201cclimate-caused\u201d problems aren\u2019t, like flooding in Pakistan after it cut down most of its forests. Nor is industrialization, \u201cwhich released our species from 10,000 years of backbreaking labor\u201d at all \u201cregrettable,\u201d as the resulting wealth helps clean up the environment. Indeed, the \u201crest of the world should thank us\u201d for capitalism and \u201cseek to emulate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Libertarian_World_Cup_Blesses_Authoritarianism\"><\/span><strong>Libertarian: World Cup Blesses Authoritarianism<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe examples of petty authoritarianism on display in Qatar in the immediate run-up to the tournament and over the first few days of the competition have been numerous,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/21\/the-qatar-world-cup-is-a-celebration-of-authoritarianism\/\">thunders Reason\u2019s Eric Boehm<\/a>, but \u201cthey pale in comparison to the human rights abuses that piled up as the tiny Middle Eastern state built the stadiums and infrastructure necessary to host the event.\u201d Indeed, by working with Qatar\u2019s government, FIFA \u201chas further besmirched its already tainted reputation.\u201d And the ban on beer is only part of it. Far worse was FIFA President Gianni Infantino\u2019s excuse for not slamming Qatar\u2019s rules: \u201cI think for what we Europeans have been doing around the world for the last 3,000 years, we should be apologizing for the next 3,000 years, before starting to give moral lessons.\u201d Says Boehm: \u201cPu-leeze. Europe\u2019s historic authoritarianism is no excuse for Qatar\u2019s modern-day authoritarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Schools_watch_Conservative_Education_Agenda\"><\/span><strong>Schools watch: Conservative Education Agenda<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe left\u2019s intimate ties with unions, public bureaucracies, and higher education have turned it into the apologist and paymaster for the education establishment,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/education\/3744608-how-conservatives-can-lead-on-k-12\/\">notes Frederick W. Hess at The Hill<\/a>. \u201cThe right, meanwhile, is free to reimagine institutions and arrangements in ways the left is not.\u201d And school choice \u201ca good start, but it\u2019s not enough.\u201d The agenda should include \u201ctransparency and accountability\u201d to empower parents, \u201cexcellence\u201d from <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>-based reading instruction to gifted and AP programs, getting serious about \u201capprenticeship and career and technical education programs\u201d and even \u201crethinking what teachers do\u201d to make real pay hikes practical.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <em>Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\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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