The Woke Ideology Takes Charge of Corporate America
30 Mar 2022
CLAY: Weโre talking about โ because I think this is a big cultural moment here โ Disney and many of its top employees losing their minds and making all sorts of outlandish decisions to try to bow down to the woke universe. And, by the way, theyโre doing this while not holding any of the rest of the world to the standards of basic human rights because, remember, they filmed the Mulan movie and thanked the Xinjiang Province people who were actually committing genocide against the Uyghur population.
So you bow down to China in China and donโt have anything at all to say for their direct human rights violations, but you then go crazy woke here in this country. Now, Karey Burke is a Disney president, said she has a โtransgender and a pansexual child.โ She graduated, by the way, from UCLA in 1988 so her kids at the utmost are probably in their twenties, but she has five of them, so who knows how old her kids are.
She also is now making aggressive, ridiculous wild comments. This is from a company Zoom. Here is a second cut where she says that โ effective basically immediately โ all of Disneyโs characters are going to be LGBTQโฆ I canโt even keep up with all the different letters, but LGBTQIA+. Is that right? Did I get it right?
BUCK: Pretty good there, Mr. Travis.
CLAY: Listen to this. Listen to this comment that she made also in the same clip that has gone viral.
SCOOP: Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, โas the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child,โ she supports having โmany, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our storiesโ and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities. pic.twitter.com/oFRUiuu9JG
โ Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
BUCK: Sheโs crying. The president of content entertainment at the Walt Disney company is crying because of the insufficient number of Disney stories that are focusing on โ as the primary story and the primary character โ members of the LGBTQIA+ community. I would also like to put out an official protest. Iโve just learned about pansexuality today, after she said it. I donโt see a P in the LGBTQIA+ acronym. So I think thereโs a little bit of anti-pansexual bigotry out there right now.
CLAY: Iโm feeling that vibe. Iโm feeling that vibe. That phrase is not inclusive enough to me.
BUCK: Itโs not in there, and I think we have to ask why, Clay. Oh, thereโs a plus. The pansexual folks only get a plus?
CLAY: Thatโs a good point.
BUCK: Thatโs not right.
CLAY: Feels a little discriminatory.
BUCK: It does. But letโs look at whatโs really going on here. What started all of this? You and I, we had dinner with Governor DeSantis last night. Heโs on the forefront of so many of the battles against the woke left and against the mask madness. Oh, we got some Fauci stuff to share with you later on in the show too, folks.
Heโs back. We knew he would be. They found him in the couch cushions over at the MSNBC greenroom. They dusted him off. Here he is. But I gotta tell you, Clay, what we all see here is there was a huge outrage โ wasnโt just a manufactured outrage โ at the idea on the activist left that you cannotโฆ
You cannot indoctrinate children from kindergarten to third grade in the state of Florida as a function of law without having some liability. Itโs completely enraging to them, which means that they obviously want to at least have that option or that ability, which raises a lot of questions.
CLAY: No doubt. And Iโm just still focused on the craziness of โladies and gentlemen, boys and girlsโ being offensive. Like, to me that crystallizes Disney and the radical departure and genuflection at the altar of the woke that this represents because what percentage, Buck, of the American population is offended by a greeting that says, โladies and gentlemen, boys and girlsโ?
I donโt even understand how someone could be offended by that. Biology is real. Men and women and the distinctions between men and women and real. You canโt just decide that you donโt acknowledge basic biology. I canโt just start walking around and say, โYou know what? Iโm anti-gravity. I think gravity sucks.โ Okay. Gravityโs real. I canโt just walk around, Buck, and say, โHey, you know what? I think it sucks that water freezes eight 32 degrees.
โF water freezing at 32 degrees! Iโm anti-ice.โ Well, this doesnโt make any sense to me at all, and then you acknowledge these people? Itโs like, hey, weโre outside walking around; thereโs a temperature. โI refuse to acknowledge temperature exists.โ Like, what areโฆ? I donโt understand. The Party of Science is fundamentally repudiating the most basic essence of life, which is biology.
BUCK: This is why we have to remind ourselves in all this of two things. First of all โ and remember this โ the left, everybody, chose this fight. The left decided that this is a battle that they want to win. They forced this on all the rest of us. This is not โ โcause now what they do is, โOh, why you so obsessed with gender identity and ideology?โ Excuse me?
Youโre the ones, meaning the leftist activists โ and, look, this is the Democrat Party. You will not see a mainstream Democrat politician condemn biological males in female sports right now. You will not see it. I mean maybe with the exception of Joe Manchin but heโs basically Republican. But you will not see people. You will not see woke Democrats condemn this, in office.
Iโm not even just talking about in the media. You will not see them speak obvious truths here, and so thatโs one part of this. Theyโve picked the fight. And the other is, look at the power they seek to have. To Clayโs point about biology is real; theyโre repudiating and rejecting observable science. Think of the power that they seek to have over all of us now.
โReject what your eyes and ears and experience and history tell you or else youโre a bad person and we will destroy you.โ You think theyโre just gonna do that on gender identity issues as a function of policy and culture? Absolutely not. If they can force you to say things that you know are untrue on this, they can force you to say things that you know are untrue on whatever topic they want because this is about brute culture and in the case of the Democrat Party state force in clear defiance of reason and observable fact. Thatโs what theyโre doing.
CLAY: Itโs scary, Buck, how quickly weโre destroying the tenets of basic society and replacing them with nothing. And this may seem for some people, โOh, this is justโฆโ To me, this is a metaphor of a rejection of basic fact and science, and this is a major entertainment corporation that has effectively allowed itself to be taken hostage by the woke ideology. Thereโs no other way to describe it.
BUCK: I think itโs run by the woke ideology now. I think weโve kind ofโฆ To your point, Clay, this is about the Trojan horse โ which is absolutely true โ it started really 10 or 15 years ago with the infiltration of this D&I and the woke in all of its fashions in the H.R. department, the corporate training departments. Now the CEOs and the presidents of content, et cetera โ whether they believe it or not is tough to know.
Although, I mean, this president at Disney who starts out talking about a pansexual and transsexual. By the way, what are the chances that somebody who has this ideology happens to have a child of any age who also fits into that ideology and is there some interesting correlation there? Have you ever noticed this?
CLAY: Yes.
BUCK: Very woke leftists with overwhelmingly more likely to have, it seems, a child who identifies in this capacity, and I think thatโsโฆ You know, again, the pansexual issue has obviously gotten a lot of attention. This is Disneyโs president saying it. Whatโฆ? I think we should take this to the audience a little bit. I just want to remind everybody, โcause theyโre running around saying everyone who supports the Florida law, which is how this whole argument got started, is a bigot.
Fifty-two percent of Democrats in the state of Florida support the Parental Rights in Education bill. A huge majority of obviously Republicans and a majority of independents, but more than half of Democrats think that thatโs just a little crazy, folks โ a little too much โ to get angry about not telling someoneโs 5-year-old about the 37 genders that exist now on some college application. (sigh) Iโm fired up about this one.
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SCOOP: Disneyโs activism partner Nadine Smith of Equality Florida tells LGBTQ employees that @GovRonDeSantis and @ChristinaPushaw want to โerase you, โcriminalize your existence,โ and โtake your kidsโโa wild conspiracy theory that Republicans want to kidnap gay peopleโs children. pic.twitter.com/Ger3a2xekI
โ Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
BUCK: โTo criminalize you and take your kids.โ That is Equality Florida executive director Nadine Smith telling Disney employees โ in some official video conference โ that DeSantis, Florida, the Parental Rights Bill is ultimately about criminalizing people from the LGBTQIA+ community and taking away their children. Thatโs madness. It is insane. It is nowhere in the bill.
It is completely crazy to suggest that thatโs what is being intended here. But just to give you a sense of how overheated the rhetoric is from the activist community, thatโs the kind of stuff thatโs being said โ in official corporate training, mind you. This is not just someone with an opinion standing on a street corner.
This is somebody who is indoctrinating employees of the Disney corporation and, as we all see now, Disney is gonna find out, I think, it doesnโt run the state of Florida, actually. Turns out that itโs just a company, and you know what? Moving their whole facility is gonna be pretty expensive. So I think theyโre gonna have to be stuck here.
CLAY: Disney needs Florida politicians way more than Florida politicians need Disney, in terms of a power dynamic. Theyโre not gonna relocate Disney World. Theyโre not gonna relocate the massive amount of footprint that they have in Orlando, and I donโt even know if Disney understands what they have unleashed.
Because I feel like thereโs a ton of parents listening to us right now, Buck, and they are furious over all of this because what they want Disney to represent is just a company that they can trust and have their kids consume their content and not have to worry about it. I can speak as a parent. Thatโs overwhelmingly what they want Disney to represent.
They want Disney to represent the movies that they grew up on, right? If youโre older, the Peter Pans and the Snow Whites and that era of films. If youโre younger, Little Mermaid, Aladdin, all of those things. Watch those films and tell me that they in any way were making aggressive political comments on anything. They were just trying to entertain kids, and we live in an era now where โ and I think Bob Chapek, the CEO of Disney, was trying to be smart and stay out of this.
And thatโs when I say that heโs been captured by the Trojan Horse inside of his own company. I think his instincts were right. Disney doesnโt need to get involved in individual bills that are being passed. But what happened was his own job โ and this is what I think happens far too often, Buck. Guys and girls who are in positions of authorities inside of companies become terrified that theyโre going to lose their job if they oppose anything. Remember, not taking a stand is what โ in my opinion โ most companies should do on most issues.
BUCK: Excuse me, Clay, but I have been informed by very smart, blue check libs that โsilence equals violence.โ
CLAY: Yeah, thatโs right, and thatโs what they try to argue now. But the reality is in a 50-50 America โ which, by the way, is rapidly slanting more towards the Republican Party because of stories like these. In a 50-50 America, Disneyโs job should be to appeal to everyone of all political aspersions. And the way you do that typically is by not getting caught up in all of the craziness thatโs going on.
BUCK: Iโll just point out that this is alsoโฆ Disney was built on that promise that youโre talking about.
CLAY: Yes. Yes.
BUCK: That promise to every parent and every person. I grew up watching Disney movies. So many of us have such a really fondness and emotional association, nostalgic memories of Disney, a great American company making great products that inspire people, that make them feel good, that tell great stories. Thatโs what we want. They still could do that.
Whatโs fascinating is theyโll say, โSorry, crazy right-wing bigots but things have changed now.โ Well, theyโre gonna ruin Disney, you see. The people in charge now didnโt build the company that they are running. They are woke bureaucrats from inside the corporate system who have risen to the top. They have seized the reins of something that they themselves โ theyโve seized the levers of power inside an institution โ they didnโt build. To borrow from Obama, โThey didnโt build that.โ They didnโt build that, right?
CLAY: Right.
BUCK: And so this is whatโs happening in a lot of these companies where you see great, storied American companies with a promise to the American people thatโs been kept up for decades, now itโs being ruined and the left says, yeah, go build your own. Okay. Weโre gonna have to start building our own, one, and number two, theyโve destroyed the neutral ground.
Companies that take stances like Disney must suffer the consequences. Folks, if you donโt start making decisions about this stuff, they will just continue to weaponize corporations that they did not build, overwhelmingly โ well, in the case of Disney โ in order to get policies that you donโt want to live with.
CLAY: For a long time, many people out there have said, โI donโt want to get involved in this.โ Well, the left wingers always get involved, and when they put the pressure on companies to take stands, theyโre taking stands that are directly contra to what many of you believe. So saying, โHey, we need to be entirely neutral,โ which is often the default Republican response, doesnโt win because of the woke universe will not accept neutrality. And so I think Disney needs to feel pain over this decision on a corporate level, on a dollars-and-cents level. I think that they need to understand that there is at least half the population that they are alienating.
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