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At the moment, Disney World’s Splash Mountain ride is closed because it offended perhaps four or five people with its “Song of the South” characters.

Despite the fact that millions of people queued up to ride Splash Mountain, Disney executives were mortified their customers weren’t more socially sensitive and the company is now spending tens of millions of dollars to replace B’rer Rabbit with Princess Tiana, who happens to be black.

A year or so ago, an executive at Disney’s movie studio bragged that the company wouldn’t produce a film where at least 40 percent of its characters were minorities or members of an authorized oppressed class.

If you’ve seen a recent Disney movie, you can quickly tell everyone got this memo.

As a sports fan, I noted how efficiently Disney transformed ESPN into an ideological CNN. (I knew ESPN had jumped the shark when its now defunct print magazine published a cover story on the perils of Global Warming.

I’d add that Disney was so committed to the Current Thing that they refused to re-open Disney World long after Gov. DeSantis told all businesses in his state they were free to make money again.

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Good article Bill! I thought Alex Berenson had missed the point somehow about DeSantis. The Govenor seems to be about the only man standing in the political world anywhere who actually appears to have both beliefs and common sense in abundance! I certainly don't agree with everything he says and I think he should have held off until Trump had finished with politics. I would enjoy seeing a contest between Robert F Kennedy Jr and Ron DeSantis - two men with integrity having more in common than they may realise. Not going to happen though.

As for Disney and all those Woke corporations snuggled up with the governments of the world - well, they would do well to remember that they actually need customers! I hear Disney is struggling to get people to see their movies these days because they are so boringly "correct". People don't want to be lectured by their cartoons, beer cans or car company!

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