None of this is surprising to anyone who has been following the swift march of the woke through the institutions of American life-schools, universities, the media, corporations, and, strangest of all, the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency. This is all part of becoming ‘antiracist’. To object to any of this is to be racist, or so the theory goes. Disney workers must also regard their country as one ‘that elevates white culture over others’. The company also orders its workers to reject equality of opportunity, which has been the standard in American race relations since at least the 1960s, and instead affirm ‘equality of outcome’ for the races. In a 7 May story published in City Journal, Rufo revealed that Disney is compelling its employees to affirm that the US has ‘a long history of systemic racism and transphobia’, and that its employees, especially white ones, must ‘work through feelings of guilt, shame, and defensiveness to understand what is beneath them and what needs to be healed’.ĭisney instructs white employees to ‘listen with empathy Black colleagues’ and to refuse to ‘question or debate Black colleagues’ lived experience’.
Using internal Disney documents leaked by whistleblowers inside the company, independent journalist Christopher Rufo revealed that Disney is institutionalizing anti-white racial ideology within the company. The shocking fact that Mickey has now embraced left-wing cultural militancy, and has become a ‘woke’ Social Justice Warrior, tells us something important about the madness that has engulfed the United States in this time of Cultural Revolution. Is there anyone more American than Mickey Mouse? For decades the Walt Disney Company’s mascot has been an icon of American culture known around the world.