Florida vs Disney

What a great example of the woke Right cancel culture trying to punish someone for espousing a viewpoint they disagree with.

A few years back senator Josh Hawley made the argument that his cancelled book deal represented a violation of his first amendment right to free speech for expressing unpopular opinions.

Here we have a government stripping a corporation of their state benefits because they said something that Ron doesn't like. Isnt this a much more clear cut example of a free speech violation?

@sh76 said
One man's "rebuking bigotry" is another man's "using its corporate weight to punish the will of the people"

@vivify said
True. But but bigotry is determined by the motive.

U.S. conservatives, especially in Florida, have been pushing policies that oppress minorities including LGBT for for many years.

@sh76 said
That's what you say.

They say they have nothing against minorities or LGBT people; and that they just don't want their children to be subject to ideology that stunts their gender identity development. They'll tell you that boys are still boys even if they feel like they want to be girls and that a birth certificate gender based on anatomy and DNA is not a mere "guess" and tha ...[text shortened]... tells them this information is hurting them.

So you disagree.

That's not necessarily bigotry.

@sh76 said
they just don't want their children to be subject to ideology that stunts their gender identity development.

@sh76 said
That's what you say.

They say they have nothing against minorities or LGBT people; and that they just don't want their children to be subject to ideology that stunts their gender identity development. They'll tell you that boys are still boys even if they feel like they want to be girls and that a birth certificate gender based on anatomy and DNA is not a mere "guess" and tha ...[text shortened]... tells them this information is hurting them.

So you disagree.

That's not necessarily bigotry.

@wildgrass said
Birth certificate sex assignment is not based on DNA.

@athousandyoung said
Indirectly it is

@shavixmir said
Do you think they should be responsible for the tax part of the story, when they have no say in the matter?

@no1marauder said
The bottom line is that the State of Florida is openly and brazenly punishing a private corporation for having the temerity to publicly criticize a State statute.

By what reasoning is this not a blatant violation of the First Amendment (as applied to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment)?

EDIT: “We have everything thought out,” DeSantis said. “Don’t let anyone tel ...[text shortened]... of this.[/b]” https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/disney-district-repeal-lawsuit-desantis-1234722268/

@no1marauder said
The bottom line is that the State of Florida is openly and brazenly punishing a private corporation for having the temerity to publicly criticize a State statute.

By what reasoning is this not a blatant violation of the First Amendment (as applied to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment)?

EDIT: “We have everything thought out,” DeSantis said. “Don’t let anyone tel ...[text shortened]... of this.[/b]” https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/disney-district-repeal-lawsuit-desantis-1234722268/

@vivify said
This is quite an empty statement. How does teaching about sexual orientation/gender identity "stunt" their development? You can't just claim something like this without support for it.

You're also mistaking teaching for promoting. Teaching kids about gays or trans people is not the same as promoting any perceived lifestyle or ideology about it. This is just the irrati ...[text shortened]... y pushing Intelligent Design.

Conservative Floridians are pushing religious dogma, not education.

@wildgrass said
Birth certificate sex assignment is not based on DNA.

@sh76 said
Forget sexual orientation. That's a different kettle of fish. Teaching a child that he can choose is gender identity based on how he feels makes him less likely to learn to deal with whatever feelings he's having that's making him question his boyhood.