Dick Young
In the ongoing battle between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Disney, the governor has won another battle in the fight to end the company’s efforts to spread woke ideology. After DeSantis oversaw the takeover of the administrative district that oversees the area around Disney World, he has used the powers of the district to end Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts (a cover for radical woke indoctrination programs) in the area. Caroline Downey reports in National Review:
The tourism body appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis to oversee Disney World and its properties announced Tuesday that it will discontinue all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, including related roles.
Race-based contracting and a DEI committee will be eliminated, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District confirmed in a statement, because these initiatives “discriminated against Americans based on gender and race, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.”
The announcement follows an internal investigation into the district’s policies.
“The so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives were advanced during the tenure of the previous board and they were illegal and simply un-American,” District Administrator Glenton Gilzean said. “Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal. As the former head of the Central Florida Urban League, a civil rights organization, I can say definitively that our community thrives only when we work together despite our differences.”
The GOP 2024 candidate has signed multiple pieces of legislation combating DEI initiatives in public and higher education. He spearheaded the state’s “Stop WOKE” law, which prohibits businesses, colleges and K-12 schools from incorporating critical-race theory into curricula, before a federal judge blocked it last year. Another law DeSantis signed in May defunded DEI programs at colleges in Florida’s state university system.
After Disney decided to wade into politics last year by condemning Florida’s popular Parental Rights in Education bill, which banned sexual instruction in K-3, DeSantis retaliated by signing a bill stripping Disney of its 56-year-old “independent special district” status. That designation had granted the amusement park and resort complex the privilege of creating its own regulations, building codes, and other municipal services.
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