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under the Disney thumb and obeying the "lion king"….Child raising is stressful. From a coldly anthropological point of view, it’s amazing the number of different systems that human beings have come up with to alleviate those stresses, from widespread infanticide to modern modes of education. I won’t dispute that modern modes of education are preferable to infanticide. That said, I can’t think of anything else about them that is clearly positive. At one end of the Ed Business, state legislators are having to pass laws to prevent little tots in elementary school being indoctrinated with crackpot theories about sex and race [Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Historic Bill to Protect Parental Rights in Education, FLGOV.com, March 28, 2022]. Those theories teach the tots that sex is just an illusion, that you are whatever sex you think you are today. Race, they teach, is likewise an illusion, except—somehow—that white people carry a sort of virus called “whiteness,” which is evil and oppressive of nonwhite people. Last week, I quoted you the abstract of an article in a journal for professional educators. The abstract concluded with the statement that We hope our work contributes to Critical Whiteness Studies’ goal of dismantling whiteness. That particular journal, Physical Review Physics Education Research, [Tweet them] is for teachers of physics, which I guess is probably not on the elementary-school curriculum, except perhaps in China. There is not much doubt, though, that our five-, six-, seven-, and eight-year-olds are in the daily care of people who take this gibberish to be Holy Writ. That’s one end of the Ed-biz spectrum. At the other end, that same crackpot ideology is supreme. Credentialed, tenured professors at universities of the highest repute propagate its dogmas with all the earnest intensity of medieval theologians teaching about Transubstantiation. Dissidents from it are howled down and assaulted at our most prestigious, most expensive colleges [A Violent Attack on Free Speech at Middlebury, by Peter Beinart, Atlantic, March 6, 2017]. And those colleges don’t just preach anti-white dogma, they practice it. Almost all of them discriminate flagrantly against white people in their admissions processes [The Myth of American Meritocracy, by Ron Unz, American Conservative, December 2012 (PDF)]. They also discriminate against Asian applicants, although that at least is being litigated [Asian-Americans Fight Back Against School Discrimination, by Jason L. Riley, WSJ, March 1, 2022] And the connection between those two ends of the spectrum is a direct one. Our universities inspire, and very often actually contain, the Schools of Education to which young adults who have failed to distinguish themselves as undergraduates direct their steps. Some of these young adults, I am sure, are idealistic in their keenness to shape children’s minds by filling them with the ideology hammered into their own heads by college teachers with impressive credentials. Others are opportunists, attracted to a line of work that offers long summer vacations and the protection of our most powerful labor unions, before whom state legislatures grovel and beg. Scanning the entire educational spectrum, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that our system of education is rotten from kindergarten up through to graduate school. Given a choice, you wouldn’t want anything to do with it. Here we get back to Morland’s Trilemma: countries have three options, of which they may only choose two:
Americans are, in fact, given a choice. The choice is to accept or reject Option Three in the trilemma. You can hand off your kids to the education system; or—unless you are talented in some very remunerative way, or the heir to a large inheritance—you can forget about you and your spouse both enjoying well-paid careers and resign yourselves to comparative poverty while you give over your time and energy to raising your kids in a way that does not fill their heads with poisonous nonsense. But I may in fact have overstated Americans’ options there. Yes: you can, if you’re willing to make the sacrifices, shield your kids from the educational system. The Ruling Class who promote this sinister ideology are ahead of you, though. They haven’t just taken over the schools, they also have the corporate world firmly in their grasp, including that subset of the corporate world that produces entertainment for children. The Walt Disney Company, for example. Not merely “for example,” in fact, as Disney owns or part-owns a huge slab of the corporate world offering entertainment and instruction to our children, from Marvel Comics to National Geographic. Longtime readers of VDARE.com have known for years that Disney is a ruthless enemy of America’s Middle Class. At least as far back as April 2015 we were reporting on the cold-blooded way Disney was laying off IT employees en masse so that they could replace them with cheaper foreigners on guest-worker visas. Sample quote from that report of seven years ago, lest we forget: From the perspective of five laid-off Disney IT workers, all of whom agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity, Disney cut well-paid and longtime staff members, some who had been previously singled out for excellence, as it shifted work to contractors. These contractors used foreign labor, mostly from India. The laid-off workers believe the primary motivation behind Disney’s action was cost-cutting. Some of these folks were literally flown in the day before to take over the exact same job I was doing,” said one of the IT workers who lost his job. He trained his replacement and is angry over the fact he had to train someone from India “on site, in our country.” “Our country” … yeah, right. The way these corporate hegemons see it, it’s not ourcountry, Bub, it’s their country. No surprise then that Disney is out at the head of the wolf pack seeking to destroy our children’s innocence and replace it with a bogus and godless pseudo-religion.
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The Florida Senate voted to pass a law on Wednesday that will strip Disney’s special status in the state that essentially allows the park to self govern.
The bill still needs to pass the House, something it is expected to do without much opposition, and be signed by Governor Ron DeSantis. The House is Republican controlled, and DeSantis has called for the special session, urging lawmakers to pass a bill ending Disney’s special status.
The move is in response to Disney’s stated opposition to the Parental Rights in Education law, which has been branded as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by critics. It prevents teachers from covering issues of sexual orientation and gender identity until the third grade, with restrictions on other grades banning sexual education unless it is age and developmentally appropriate.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District has existed since 1967, when Florida legislators gifted the area to Disney because the surrounding counties were not prepared to support a theme park that would bring in millions of tourists a year.
Disney controls around 25,000 acres of land around the Orlando area, and provides its own road and sewer maintenance, emergency services and in return gets a break on tens of millions of dollars in taxes and gets to avoid red tape by issuing its own building permits.
As a result, Orange County, Florida would begin receiving taxes from the giant theme park, but would also be on the hook for maintaining roads and sewers in the area, as well as offering emergency services to Reedy Creek residents and the millions of tourists that visit the park annually.
The county may also be on the hook for the estimated $1 billion that Reedy Creek owes.
Like so many things in politics, the issue may come down to money and not just the tax revenues.
As part of Disney’s opposition to the bill, the company pledged to stop donating to political campaigns in the state. In the 2020 election cycle, the entertainment giant donated $4.4 million to campaigns throughout the state, including $586,000 to Republican Senate campaigns and $50,000 to DeSantis.
DeSantis, who is up for reelection this year, criticized Disney for being “woke” and said a family-friendly company like Disney should “understand that parents do not want this injected into their kid’s kindergarten classroom.”
While DeSantis remains popular in the state, recent polling has him at 54% approval rating, the GOP-led legislature is seen less fondly in the eyes of Floridians, as only 37% approve of the job it is doing. Millions of dollars in campaign contributions from Disney could help with that, but so can a manufactured culture war. While the “don’t say gay” bill is extremely unpopular nationwide, it is far more popular in Florida, where even 52% of likely Democratic Florida voters said they supported it.
The fight may not be over yet, as Disney could challenge the order in court. The law states that any special district must be disbanded the same way it was created. Reedy Creek was not created during a special session like its dissolution would be.
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