Supposedly, Disney Employees Are “Furious” That Disney Isn’t Furious About Florida Bill

To no one’s surprise, the mainstream media is reporting that Disney employees are really upset that the Disney company doesn’t seem to be as upset about Florida’s HB 1557. The bill that blocks public school staff from engaging in gender theory indoctrination and age-inappropriate sexual education in K-3 classrooms and instead maintains parental rights on the subject, as well as encouraging families to discuss such topics in a healthy and appropriate way, has made a whole lot of people very angry. Activists quickly coined the intentionally misleading nickname, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which is factually inaccurate and partisan activism aimed at labeling the bill’s supporters as bigots and misconstruing the actual contents of the bill for the general public.

So obviously, the media jumped right on that hyper partisan and misleading activist nickname because they’re all about hyper partisan and misleading activism. In fact, they have used the nickname in essentially all their reporting on the bill. There are even people who believe that to be the legitimate name of the bill due to the way the mainstream media has used it. (Reminds me a little of how many people thought Kyle Rittenhouse shot black men due to the inaccurate and hyper partisan reporting on the subject.)

I mean, look at how NPR discusses it in their article and on Twitter. Remember, that’s a hyper partisan and inaccurate activist nickname coined to disparage and mislead regarding the bill, and that’s NPR being all about it, right there in the open.

Disney employees furious the company won’t denounce Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill https://t.co/IP5cXNUkST

— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) March 8, 2022

The NPR story cites just 2 individual animators, Benjamin Siemon and Dana Terrace, as being “furious,” and includes their Twitter rants. I was able to find a news report that claims that “hundreds gather” to pressure Disney to be as furious as they want them to be, but there’s no specification about employee involvement.

And I’m kind of confused by this actually. Because as I scrolled and came across this NPR story, I automatically assumed it is a lot of employees who are “furious.” But then there’s just 2 in this story, and ambiguity in other stories. And I’m sure that was by design, because most people just read the titles. And even if they read further, they rarely make it to the end of the article. I know this from my own writing where I get countless comments that make it obvious that the commenter never read the actual story. Folks, you really should read the articles, not just the headlines. But I digress.

So is it a whole bunch of Disney employees who are big mad? Or just a couple whose voices are being amplified to feed a particular narrative and appear larger than they really are? Because that’s exactly what happened with the  Netflix employees staging a walkout in protest of Dave Chapelle’s comedy special. The media made it out to be this huge thing, but it was really just a handful of employees taking a long lunch break, and then the media distorting it to look like a huge thing. The New York Times literally said “the protest involved dozens of employees.” I am very good at spotting language manipulation like that. When you’ve got a number that might look kind of pathetic if it was specified, but could be described in a way that is a little more ambiguous while still being technically correct, and which could easily be incorrectly assumed to be greater than it is, then THAT’S the way you describe it. “Dozens” literally means it could have been 24. They’re just hoping you mentally picture far more than that to manipulate your perception of reality.

But did you know that at the exact same time as these “dozens” of Netflix employees made headline mainstream media news for many news cycles, there was a huge John Deere employee strike? More than 10,000 John Deere workers went on strike over poor treatment and wages. And that made barely a blip in the mainstream coverage, because “dozens” of Netflix employees took a long lunch break because they were mad that someone supposedly said something sometime that they didn’t agree with.

I suspect that Disney actually read the bill and decided it wasn’t worth their outrage because they aren’t buying the hyper partisan activist misinformation, but hyper partisan activist misinformationists in the mainstream media want to put pressure on the by drumming up some outrage.