Disney’s governing district in Florida slashes all DEI programs
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The times they are changing.
Disney’s governing district in Florida slashes all DEI programs
By Macie Goldfarb and Steve Contorno, CNN
Updated 8:13 PM EDT, Wed August 2, 2023the ongoing battle between Walt Disney World and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Disney’s governing district – whose current board was hand-picked by DeSantis and took control of the district in February – abolished all of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the district said in a Tuesday news release.
The statement from the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District cited an internal investigation into the Reedy Creek Improvement District’s policies, claiming the district “implemented hiring and contracting programs that discriminated against Americans based on gender and race, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.”
“The so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives were advanced during the tenure of the previous board and they were illegal and simply un-American,” district administrator Glenton Gilzean said. “Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/02/politics/disney-reedy-creek-dei/index.html
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I think this will ultimately backfire on Gov. DeSantis but only time will tell.
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I think this will ultimately backfire on Gov. DeSantis but only time will tell.
@taiwan_girl said in Disney’s governing district in Florida slashes all DEI programs:
I think this will ultimately backfire on Gov. DeSantis
That might be an interesting opinion, if you explained why you think it.
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@taiwan_girl said in Disney’s governing district in Florida slashes all DEI programs:
I think this will ultimately backfire on Gov. DeSantis
That might be an interesting opinion, if you explained why you think it.
@Horace I think that generally in the US, people do not want their elected officials to campaign or govern on cultural issues. It may sound good for the speeches, it may play good for the hard core supporters, but for the majority, it does not work. It may help them in the primary, but not in the general election.
Specifically for Florida and Disney, Disney "pumps" millions (maybe even billions) of USD into the local economy.
People have indicated attendance at Disney is down - probably due to a number of factors with money probably the biggest one. Why is it too expensive?
Are policies in Florida making it tougher to make money for Disney there? IS that due to the recent changes? Maybe that is the case. Will Disney maintain things at Disney World, but in the future, look to invest in other places and over the course of years phase down Disney World? Maybe.
And before you say that Disney has too much invested in Florida to walk away, look at recent events in China and Russia. Companies had billions of dollars that they are shipping out of both countries as manufacturing factories, offices, regional headquarters, are set up in other places.
It is not uncommon to read that a company is taking a USD$XXXXMM write down for the year as they change directions.
It is nave to think that could not happen.
It is like that saying - "If it isn't broke, why fix it?" Disney has been super successful where they are at in Orlando, and because of that, Florida has benifitted quite a bit. Was it broke? I dont think so. So, why "fix" it?
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@Horace I think that generally in the US, people do not want their elected officials to campaign or govern on cultural issues. It may sound good for the speeches, it may play good for the hard core supporters, but for the majority, it does not work. It may help them in the primary, but not in the general election.
Specifically for Florida and Disney, Disney "pumps" millions (maybe even billions) of USD into the local economy.
People have indicated attendance at Disney is down - probably due to a number of factors with money probably the biggest one. Why is it too expensive?
Are policies in Florida making it tougher to make money for Disney there? IS that due to the recent changes? Maybe that is the case. Will Disney maintain things at Disney World, but in the future, look to invest in other places and over the course of years phase down Disney World? Maybe.
And before you say that Disney has too much invested in Florida to walk away, look at recent events in China and Russia. Companies had billions of dollars that they are shipping out of both countries as manufacturing factories, offices, regional headquarters, are set up in other places.
It is not uncommon to read that a company is taking a USD$XXXXMM write down for the year as they change directions.
It is nave to think that could not happen.
It is like that saying - "If it isn't broke, why fix it?" Disney has been super successful where they are at in Orlando, and because of that, Florida has benifitted quite a bit. Was it broke? I dont think so. So, why "fix" it?
@taiwan_girl said in Disney’s governing district in Florida slashes all DEI programs:
@Horace I think that generally in the US, people do not want their elected officials to campaign or govern on cultural issues. It may sound good for the speeches, it may play good for the hard core supporters, but for the majority, it does not work. It may help them in the primary, but not in the general election.
Trump rode the culture wars to the white house. The top three Republican candidates for '24 lean heavily into the culture wars. The Democrats rode "we're not Trump" to the white house, which is culture war adjacent, if not primarily a culture war platform. The culture wars touch almost everybody's lives in one way or another.
As for policy, SCOTUS rulings are policy, and they recently fell along GOP/Dem lines, in the most publicly meaningful rulings about affirmative action, student debt forgiveness, and freedom of personal artistic expression. It's a mistake to shrug off the culture war as a meaningless triviality that matters only to fringe tribalists.
If you discard the culture wars and everything they affect, you would be hard pressed to list meaningful things that the adults in the room are supposed to be caring about. Go ahead and try, I'm interested in your attempt.
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To every rule, there is an exception. And I dont think was strictly culture things that he won on. He talked about immigration and reducing that, etc. I think that the talk about cultural things (woke, etc.) is much stronger eight years later. And, people here have mentioned that not releasing information on Hunter Biden in 2020 may have influenced the voting in the election. The same was true in 2016, but in President Trumps favor, when the FBI said just before the election that they were going to investigate Sec. Clinton again.
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immigration issues are strongly connected to the culture wars. People who care about borders are xenophobic and racist, according to Democrat messaging. Racism is a foundation of the culture wars, as the left claims everybody who isn't in their tribe, is racist, and those not in the tribe, reject the label.
