In trying to offend no one, Disney had seemingly lost everyone.Īlso read | Saying it right: How India’s corporate sector is slowly waking up to gender sensitivity (Disney had already been at odds with the governor on pandemic issues like a vaccine mandate for employees.) Disney then aggressively denounced the bill - only to find itself in the crosshairs of Fox News hosts and Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who sent a fundraising email to supporters saying that “Woke Disney” had “lost any moral authority to tell you what to do.” Florida lawmakers began threatening to revoke a 55-year-old law that enables Walt Disney World to essentially function as its own municipal government. Also read | Saying it right: How India’s corporate sector is slowly waking up to gender sensitivitymbroglio over a new Florida law that, among many things, restricts classroom instruction through third grade on sexual orientation and gender identity and has been labeled by opponents as “Don’t Say Gay.”Īt first, Disney tried not to take a side on the legislation, at least publicly, which prompted an employee revolt.
