In case you are trying to keep track of Disney‘s political morals, here is a summary: a state that doesn’t teach kindergarteners about being gay is a moral travesty, but a country that makes it illegal to be gay is a business opportunity.
Disney is building a new theme park resort in none other than the United Arab Emirates, with the UAE agreeing to cover the estimated $10 billion cost. It will be just the seventh Disney theme park resort in the world, and it will be run by the UAE’s state-backed entertainment developer Miral. Disney is essentially franchising itself to Miral, with the House of Mouse essentially only handling the design and branding of the park.
The lucrative arrangement is enough for Disney to look past the fact that it is illegal to be gay in the UAE. Punishments can include fines, deportation, and imprisonment. Sharia Law, which plays a role in the UAE’s legal system, means that execution is theoretically on the table as well. Despite this, Disney CEO Bob Iger went so far as to give the country the endorsement of Disney. “We did study the region very carefully, and we know we had many opportunities,” Iger said. “Obviously, building a theme park in a location is a huge endorsement of the location.”
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It is a far cry from Disney’s hysterical wailing about Florida law preventing teachers from teaching third-grade students and below about sexual attraction. At the time, Disney implied that the law was an attack on the “rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family” and everyone across the country, stating that it should have never been passed and that the company would fight to get it repealed. Disney was outraged that public school teachers wouldn’t be allowed to teach little Timmy and his first-grade class about sexual attraction, but now gives a country where being gay is illegal a “huge endorsement.”
This falls in line with how Disney acts, shaming Americans while cozying up to human rights abusers such as China in order to make more money abroad. If Disney executives want to sell their souls for money, that is their right, but they can spare the rest of us their sanctimonious political lectures about “human rights,” which the company only believes in when it can attack Republicans in the United States.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
