But you said half of Disney’s customers…. I’m gonna guess that a majority are for LGBT rights.
It really wouldn’t matter if ninety percent of Disney’s customers opposed their stance. The company is—or rather should be—free to take whatever position it wants without fear of government retaliation.
To some degree. Whether or not notice was provided, and what’s the appropriate remedy under the law, are debatable issues. Whether sufficient “evidence” has been presented, and who bears the burden at various junctures, are also fine for spirited debate.
I know this question isn’t to me but the answer is it’s based on partisanship. I partially blame social media for this. Before social media we were all forced to interact with people who had different opinions more. With social media you can carve out who you interact with and live in the echo chamber. As a result people have become more and more intolerant of opposing views. Now we have this new wave of cancel culture where if a company won’t follow the way I think I cancel them. Disney and Budweiser right now but others as well. In the past people had less issues with interacting with people and companies with opposing views. Now not so much. In this case I suspect most of the people saying Disney should stay out of politics want them to because they like the products but disagree with their stance on this issue. If their politics lined up they would have no issue with it.
I think there’s a much smaller Disney deserves this crowd than people would have you think. Most conservatives are appalled that a government would interfere with business in such a way. It’s like we’re all living in The Upside Down
I’d take it one step further and ask what if Governor Newsom declared that patrons of Chick-fil-A by speaking out against same sex marriage in the past would be required to pay a 50% “fairness tax” that wasn’t applied to McDonalds or Burger King?
But when it’s objectivity was questioned and the source’s position challenged you went on to defend against the criticism. Instead of just acknowledging its “for entertainment purposes”
But see I could ask you to source how a majority of customers are for gay rights but you said it’s a guess which is fair. My “half” is also a guess. My guess is Disney customers are more a mirror of the entire country which could be a majority as you guess, but seems more to me about half. Politely I don’t know where what I said “bad business” exactly I have l posted so many threads. But I did say in various ways that it’s treacherous to wqde into political waters.
This is 100% correct. It’s the reason why we have Trump and Biden. Politics who can vilify the other side the best. Regan and Tip O’Neil sitting down together for a drink at the end of the day are sadly from a bygone era. Social media echoes our own thoughts and allows those who want to be offended or looking for a fight to have easy access. Arguments last indefinitely and anyone can participate. It’s one of the reasons why mental health in our young people has declined so severely. Add the pandemic to that and you have a lot of folks who need help but not many resources to turn to.
Sure they can… and will. There is no force to stop them but their own legal counsel.
This for sure. Even a lot of the people who support the Governor and wanted to see him move up the ranks are not so happy with this. Some are trying to justify it somehow, but even they are probably not real thrilled.
Love this post... I‘m one of those people that wishes Disney would stay out of politics but there‘s a world of difference between wishing they’d stay out of politics and advocating for the government to punish them if they do.
Ok. I’ll own it. ( I’m so confused)
This is all beside the point. Bad business or PR decisions (if those are indeed what Disney is making) are an entirely separate matter from government retaliation. Customers can retaliate by spending their dollars elsewhere; politicians, however, are not supposed to use the law to punish a company for disagreeing with them.
