The game has changed: executives saw what we did to Disney and have changed their risk calculations. The pushback against woke capital is starting to deliver results.
The way to fight back against woke corporations isn't to appeal to fuzzy abstractions; it's to change incentives and put a price on transgressing the values of the common citizen. Gov. Ron DeSantis gave a masterclass on this strategy with Disney and the Fortune 100 is listening.
Conservatives can easily change minds in the C-Suite: we need to exert enough pressure to give executives permission to tell internal stakeholders "we can't risk the reputational and political damage to do X woke policy." They aren't ideologues; we need to give them a way out.
In the coming weeks, some companies will issue statements on Roe v. Wade. But they will be much more cautious than before and many companies will avoid the issue altogether. The fight isn't won, but we're making progress. Keep applying pressure.
I'm running a campaign now to encourage conservative Disney+ subscribers to cancel the service and send a message to executives: stop promoting critical race theory and gender ideology. Sign up here. #DropDisney dropdisney.com
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The Ministress of Truth has determined that conservatives reporting on critical race theory are "disinformers who are engaged in disinformation for profit."
We will never be silenced—and certainly not by this show-tune tyrant.
The discipline of "disinformation" is completely fake, cynical, and totalitarian. It requires no deep knowledge or expertise; one simply has to repeat the regime's line and memorize a few neologisms and multisyllabic phrases that provide a veneer of "smart" and "sophisticated."
Jankowicz is a classic of the genre: the series of high-prestige positions producing nothing of value, the alternating posture of girlboss clichés and pseudo-victimhood, the amazing combination of elitism and idiocy that are required to believe the government can manage "truth."
Disney wants to impose critical race theory and gender ideology on American families. We're organizing a campaign to fight back. #DropDisney dropdisney.com
We're launching a paid digital ad campaign targeting conservative Disney+ subscribers, with the goal of persuading them to cancel the service. It's a high-leverage strategy: even small slowdown in the rate of subscriber growth can have a major impact on the stock price.
The company is already in turmoil: the stock price has plummeted since the scandal, rumors are flying that the CEO is in jeopardy, and executives across the country are scared to become "the next Walt Disney Co." We're going to press the advantage.
MSNBC would rather run segments presenting me as a "mastermind" who can single-handedly manipulate the nation's politics than confront the fact that radical race and gender theories in public schools are poisonous, divisive, and deeply unpopular. All I've done is expose them.
I'm happy they're helping get the message out: "far right mastermind" sounds dangerous and cool, and the soft-focus New York Times portrait is a nice touch. But if the Left wanted to actually improve its political position, it would dial down the nonstop race/gender radicalism.
The Left's problem—which provides me incredible leverage—is that they can't transgress their own premises, even if they're unpopular. So they do this farcical two-step, denying the problem exists ("there's no CRT in schools!") and then demanding that it get installed everywhere.
Yesterday, Randi Weingarten compared my activism to genocidal Nazi propaganda. Now Diane Ravitch says I would prefer a society in which "most black people were enslaved, women had no rights, [and men] had the right to sexually abuse their young female slaves."
Deranged lies.
Randi Weingarten is the head of the national teachers union. Diane Ravitch is a retired NYU professor and former Asst. Secretary of Education.
This is what the educational elites think of conservative parents: you are racist, genocidal, and evil. Now they're saying it out loud.
These bizarre and sensational lies are a sign of desperation. Since the pandemic, the teachers unions and their cronies have destroyed their own credibility with parents, so they are turning the rhetoric up to maximum shrill.
It won't work. We will stand strong and defeat them.
The libs are feeling distressed about my profile in the New York Times. Thoughts and prayers. 🙏 nytimes.com/2022/04/24/us/…
The article itself is a mixed bag: it celebrates some of my W's, but 1) retreats into euphemism rather than grapple with the specific critique and content of my reporting; 2) conflates opposition to gender ideology with "anti-L.G.B.T.Q." sentiment, which is nonsense.
The reaction to the piece by New York Times readers is probably more revealing than the piece itself. The comments here are pure gold:
This is a doctored quotation. Delete it, @rweingarten, or I will wage legal war against you—and, as you have made up the middle part of the quote entirely, I will win.
Anyone can watch my Hillsdale speech to confirm. Randi combines two unrelated lines and fabricates the words "to sow & grow that distrust" to make it seem sinister. In the speech I say the opposite: the *teachers unions* have created distrust.
I welcome criticism, even harsh criticism, from @rweingarten and the teachers unions. But fabricating a quotation is utterly dishonest and beyond the pale of acceptable discourse. Weingarten and the AFT should delete it immediately—or I will escalate.