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Corporate wokeness in the United States of America has been reaching a fever pitch of late. Beloved brands that were once enjoyed by all Americans have decided that political preening is more important than half of their customer base. At first, it was just a trickle of companies, which made it somewhat easier to ignore, even if it was a company you liked.

Now there’s a flood of this nonsense.

The Walt Disney Company is one of the latest to fall from conservative grace, having opted to go all in on the LGBTQ “Capitulate or Be Canceled!” movement.

This is really sad for those of us who love Disney. I turn into a 9-year-old kid whenever I go to Disneyland (Disney World is overrated) and I will never stop loving the place. My screensaver on my phone for the last five years is from spending Father’s Day 2017 at Disneyland with my daughter.

Chris wrote yesterday about being a Disney fan and the struggle to come to terms with the company’s new wokeness:

My family members have been major Disney fans for as long as we can remember. My parents honeymooned at Walt Disney World, and we go there at least once almost every year. I told somebody just yesterday that Disney keeps making it harder for families like ours to be Disney fans.

Between their constantly increasing prices and their continuing efforts to make trip planning more difficult, Disney has taken a lot of the fun out of our visits to the parks. On top of that, the company, which remained publicly apolitical for decades, has increasingly taken a hard-left stance.

The ridiculous leftist stance du jour that Disney has taken has been to buy into the LGBTQ rage mob’s lies about Florida’s “Parental Rights In Education” bill, which the shrieking leftists are calling the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

More from Chris:

But not everybody at Disney subscribes to this bow to the LGBTQ lobby. A group of Disney cast members has written an anonymous open letter to the company’s management asking Disney to remain neutral. The letter is powerful and poignant, which is exactly what you’d expect from a company known for its storytelling.

“As employees of the Walt Disney Company, we believe in the dignity of all people,” the letter begins. “This is why we do what we do.” These cast members expressly state that they love what they do because they’re able to celebrate everybody with their art. But in the second paragraph, the letter takes a pointed turn.

“However, over the last few years, one group of cast members has become invisible within the company,” the cast members note. “The Walt Disney Company has come to be an increasingly uncomfortable place to work for those of us whose political and religious views are not explicitly progressive. We watch quietly as our beliefs come under attack from our own employer, and we frequently see those who share our opinions condemned as villains by our own leadership.”

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