Disney made “a terrible miscalculation” when it condemned Florida’s brand-new parental rights law and also pushed away from the non-woke “quiet majority” within the firm, according to Jose Castillo, an active Disney worker, and Republican legislative prospect.
Castillo, who is running in the Republican primary for Florida’s 9th Congressional District, said his employer’s choice to take a position versus the newly-signed Florida regulation can be “bad for business,” considering the relocation just serves to appease a little but very vocal group of “raging liberal” employees who advocate radical sex as well as gender belief.
Formally labeled the “Parental Rights in Education Act,” the Florida regulation in part prevents public institutions throughout the state from encouraging classroom discussions concerning “sexual orientation or gender identity” in preschool with quality three, or in a way that is not age-appropriate or developmentally proper for trainees.
The legislation has actually been described as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by its critics as well as significant media electrical outlets, although its message does not have such language.
“There’s this misconception that everyone at Disney are just raging liberals, and I think that can’t be farther from the truth,” Castillo, who identified as “a strong conservative,” said on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News. “I have tons of people that are working for the Walt Disney Company that reach out to me daily on social media [who are conservatives].”
“The Left talks about democracy, but what about our democracy right now?” Castillo questioned. “The people of Florida, a lot of Disney cast members, voted for our state legislature. These are duly elected members of the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate who passed this bill and sent it to the governor.
“Thank God our governor has the backbone to stand up to companies like mine, Disney, to stand with the people of Florida, stand with the parents to protect our children,” he added.
Castillo’s remarks come amidst debate surrounding videos that have gone viral on social media sites, in one of which Latoya Raveneau, executive manufacturer for Disney Television Animation, stated at an internal conference that she was advancing a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” to inject “queerness” into cartoon shows meant for children.
“In my little pocket of Proud Family Disney TVA, the showrunners were super welcoming … to my not-at-all-secret gay agenda,” she said in one of the clips obtained by journalist and filmmaker Christopher Rufo. Raveneau is the director on the upcoming animated series, “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” a reboot of the early 2000s classic “The Proud Family.”
“I felt like maybe it was that way in the past but I guess something must have happened—they’re turning it around, they’re going hard,” Raveneau said, adding that she was “just, wherever I could, adding queerness” and “no one would stop me, no one was trying to stop me.”
