On Friday, Disney heiress Abigail Disney, the great-niece of Walt Disney who <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/abigail-disney-calls-kobe-bryant-a-rapist-is-swiftly-met-with-backlash/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter">sniped</a> just after NBA superstar Kobe Bryant’s tragic death along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people in a helicopter crash, “The man was a rapist. Deal with it,” has now weighed in on the Florida Parental Rights in Education law and Disney’s opposition to it as well as the right-wing’s efforts to combat the woke agenda adopted by American corporations, declaring, “The right-wing has finally run amok.” She also called Christopher Rufo, who has been documenting the woke politics inside the Disney empire, a “little punk.”
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In a <a href="https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1509904775726436356">long Twitter thread,</a> Abigail Disney began by snapping, “Like all radical ideologues, the right wing has finally run amok and is coming to devour the hand that feeds it. Business. For my part I am delighted.&#8221;
“It is the business world that has been, either by act or omission, feeding the opportunist right wing to distract,&#8221; she stated, &#8220;us with culture war nonsense while they rifle through the till and empty everyone&#8217;s pockets.”
Despite a mid-March <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017f-9034-d137-abff-f0f410670000">Politico/Morning Consult poll</a> showing 50% of respondents supported banning the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade and 52% supported limiting lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity after third grade to “age appropriate” discussions, Disney claimed that a majority of Americans were not in favor of the &#8220;&#8216;anti-woke&#8217; right,&#8221; writing, “This ‘anti-woke’ right wing nonsense is unsupported by a large majority of Americans. In fact most Americans are offended by it and wish it would just go away.”
Using her claim that the anti-woke crowd was in the minority, she continued, “You need two things to rule with a minority. First, you need to be constantly looking for fresh meat to throw to the minions, to keep them riled up all the time. That works until the herd thins (remember Scar in Lion King?). So now they&#8217;ve come for American Businesses.&#8221; She continued, &#8220;It was really only a matter of time. But the second thing you need to rule with a minority is money, lots of it. You need the very deep pockets to fund you, yes, and if they don&#8217;t, you need them to sit quietly along the sidelines, out of your way.”
She added, “Until now, business has been content to do just that. Or they compartmentalized like sociopaths when they funded folks like Dennis Baxley who wrote the hateful Don&#8217;t Say Gay bill because as the CEO claimed, he had no way of knowing he might vote for legislation like that. “
She suggested that those on the political Right harbored racism, xenophobia and misogyny and were trying to “tear this country apart,” ranting, “HAH. Or else they have chosen silence. Their silence brought us Donald Trump. Apparently the racism and the xenophobia and the misogyny weren&#8217;t deal breakers. Their silence, or at least willingness to compartmentalize when it came to politicians who were willing to fight for their outrageous and multi-decade campaign to stack the deck against the American People brought us this whole raft of Trump wanna-be&#8217;s now casting about for new and more insidious ways to tear the country apart.”
Disney claimed that “decent human beings were being actively harmed by right wing activism,” writing:
<blockquote>So now that the right wing and the business agenda might actually be showing signs of parting ways, perhaps we might see the powerful lobbies of the various industries wondering which party was truly interested in supporting their interests. Perhaps we will see lobbies lose faith in the devil&#8217;s partnership they until now have relied so heavily upon to look after their subsidies, their tax breaks, their flouting of law and regulation. Perhaps the right wing has finally bitten the hand that has been feeding it superfoods these last few decades. This is a monster of corporate America&#8217;s creation. Until now they&#8217;ve managed to dodge the worst of it by feigning &#8220;neutrality&#8221; &#8211;even when decent human beings were being actively harmed by right wing activism.</blockquote>
She huffed that “authenticity, generosity, joy and decency” were “the heart and soul of the Disney brand” even as she called Rufo a “little punk”:
<blockquote>The only thing that will work for business now if they want to emerge in one piece, is to stand tall for authenticity, generosity, joy and decency. These things are cryptonite (sic) for the right wing agenda. So the cure for this isn&#8217;t hard. And it also just so happens to be the heart and soul of the Disney brand. Disney has everything it needs to fight this threat, if only it will have the courage to weather the slings and arrows and threats and name-calling. If only leadership will check in with first principles. If only they will show us that as a company that trades on American Right now, when it matters most of all, they will stand for those values with every fiber of their being. Yeah guys like Rufo can try, but Disney is so much bigger, means so much more to the American people than that little punk can ever hope to mean.</blockquote>

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Progressive activist and heiress Abigail Disney, daughter of Roy Disney and grand-niece of Walt Disney, slammed the company for dishing out executive bonuses and protecting dividends for more than $1.5 billion while cutting employee pay and furloughing others during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a lengthy Twitter post on Tuesday, Abigail Disney shared an <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/db574838-0f40-41ce-9bcd-75039f8cb288">article</a> from the Financial Times reporting that the company stopped paying 100,000 workers to save $500 million a month. She mostly took issue with executives retaining bonuses during the pandemic.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been holding my tongue on the theory that a pandemic is no time to be calling people out on anything other than failing us in a public health sense. I thought it might be a moment for peace and reconciliation,&#8221; she began.
&#8220;WHAT THE ACTUAL F***????? Look, dividends aren&#8217;t ALL bad, given the number of fixed income folks who rely on them,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But still 80% of shares are owned by the wealthiest 10%. So that excuse only goes so far. But the REAL outrage is, of course, those bonuses. All 1.5 billion of them. 1.5 BILLION. That&#8217;d pay for three months&#8217; salary to front line workers. And it&#8217;s going to people who have already been collecting egregious bonuses for years.”
According to the Financial Times, the company “protected incentive schemes, which account for most of the executives’ remuneration,” with the latest package being &#8220;more than 900 times that of the median Disney worker’s earnings, which stands at about $52,000.&#8221;
Abigail Disney called on the company to &#8220;do better&#8221; even in the face of what is arguably an “existential” threat to their business. Responding to those who would say that the bonus structure was to incentivize good management, Abigail said that the company&#8217;s current crisis is largely due to mismanagement over the past few years.
&#8220;If a bonus reflects performance, we might want to claw back some of those millions given how they&#8217;ve managed cash,&#8221; she said. “Between March 31, 2018 and June 30 of 2019, the company made $11.5 billion of stock buybacks. ELEVEN. POINT. FIVE. BILLION. Now no one could have foreseen this crisis. That is an absolutely fair thing to say.&#8221;
&#8220;But ANYONE, could have anticipated SOME crisis,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s one of the things responsible managers do. And good, solid, competent management is why they get the &#8216;big bucks&#8217; we are told. But those buybacks are beginning to look pretty self-indulgent right now.&#8221;
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OK, I&#39;ve been holding my tongue on the theory that a pandemic is no time to be calling people out on anything other than failing us in a public health sense. I thought it might be a moment for peace and reconciliation. But I feel a thread coming on&#8230;.1/ <a href="https://t.co/G1mUq7RmAV">https://t.co/G1mUq7RmAV</a>
&mdash; Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) <a href="https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1252665806334410752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Abigail Disney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-heiress-blasts-theme-parks-alleged-working-paul-bois">has been critical</a> of the company&#8217;s alleged mismanagement of labor in the past. Last July, after going undercover at Disney theme parks, she ripped the company for not paying its workers enough. Prior to that, she publicly scolded Disney CEO Bob Iger for taking an &#8220;insane&#8221; salary.
“Let me very clear. I like Bob Iger. I do NOT speak for my family but only for myself,” Abigail said in a viral Twitter thread. “Other than owning shares (not that many) I have no more say in what happens there than anyone else. But by any objective measure a pay ratio over a thousand is insane.”
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In a massive <a href="https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1223514990759555073">24-tweet thread</a> last Friday, Disney heiress and award-winning documentary filmmaker Abigail Disney doubled down on her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-heiress-tweets-about-kobe-the-man-was-a-rapist-deal-with-it">prior statements</a> in which she had tweeted after the tragic death of former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, “The man was a rapist. Deal with it.” In the new thread, Disney concluded, “Don&#8217;t deify him because he was not a god. That&#8217;s all. Just don&#8217;t deify him.”
Disney began, “OK, time to bite the bullet and say something. Thread. If you don&#8217;t like it, just stop following. First of all, yes, it IS my business because I&#8217;m a woman who has herself been assaulted and spent my life knowing, loving and feeling for women for whom it&#8217;s been so much worse.”
She continued:
<blockquote>One woman, gang raped in Bosnia and left for dead, told me &#8220;When I was raped, I became a refugee inside my own body.&#8221; I feel terrible for Kobe&#8217;s family and especially for Vanessa. It is unequivocally horrible that all these lives were lost to a terrible tragedy.</blockquote>
Disney then acknowledged that Bryant had evolved into a fine person, but she still had some concerns:
<blockquote>I mourn Kobe too. He went on to be a man who seemed genuinely to want to do good. The face that he raped someone does not change any of these other facts. A person can, in one lifetime, do both good and bad. We all do, in fact, even the sanctimonious folks on twitter.
I don&#8217;t think there is a need to relitigate the whole thing here. His own statement says it all. Yes, the prosecutor dropped the case, on condition he make a statement he did so at the instruction of the victim who was under so many death threats from sports fans she continue … (the tweet broke off there).</blockquote>
Disney went on:
<blockquote>Here is what he said: &#8220;Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did. After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even her testimony in person,
&#8220;I now understand how she feels that she did not consent to this encounter.&#8221; I admire this statement. It sounds genuine to me. I think it was an act of great personal courage for him to make it. But let&#8217;s be clear: if he did not feel that it was a rape and she did, whose view should take precedence? Well, if you feel raped, can an apology unrape you? Can the &#8220;accidental&#8221; nature of the rape unrape you? Putting the best spin on it you possibly can, he didn&#8217;t mean to rape her, but nevertheless she experienced it as a rape.
When a drunk driver kills someone, does his lack of intention absolve him of responsibility for the death? If he said he wasn&#8217;t that drunk or didn&#8217;t know he was drunk, or didn&#8217;t mean to kill the person, or is really really really sorry, does any of this absolve him?
Of course not. We are responsible for all of the things we do, whether or not we meant to do them. So what would have been a better outcome? Should Kobe have simply disappeared and never had a life? NO, most certainly not. He became a role model and that was nice.
But he did so at the expense of the truth. No one in LA wanted to believe he&#8217;d done what he did. I had friends in LA at the time, feminists, who never stopped apologizing for him and engaging in exactly the kind of victim blaming that goes whenever the ranks close on the girl who dares to report. We feminists have worked hard to change this. We have made some real progress. Many people and not just feminists know that it is not okay to say she was in his room, she was dressed provocatively, she was star struck, what did she expect?</blockquote>
Disney posited that Bryant should have done more to “promote awareness”:
<blockquote>But wow, something about Kobe. Those of us who pointed out the fact of Kobe&#8217;s less pleasant past were not saying that what happened was not sad or tragic. It was deeply tragic. But here&#8217;s the thing. Once you become a &#8220;refugee inside your own body,&#8221; it becomes excruciating to watch the person who did it, or, in fact, to watch the person who did that to someone else get the sainthood treatment under any circumstances.
If he had gone on to acknowledge what he&#8217;d done, if he had gone on to actively promote awareness among the millionsof young men and women who would come to admire him, if he had, from time to time, resisted his own deification, it would have been different. If he had only been willing to acknowledge that whether unconsciously or not, he had hurt someone in a way that is seldom reparable and that he regrets it, if he had just felt her pain instead of his own, if he had built a road away from the mistake that incorporated it rather than make it invisible, it would have all be so different.</blockquote>
She then referenced herself:
<blockquote>Those of us fighting for the victims of sexual violence do not care if you think we are monsters. We are used to it. We do not care if you think men are being ruined by the consequences they are forced to bear because of their own victimizing behavior because our attentionis focused on the men and women who have already been ruined by that man&#8217;s behavior, and justice for what he has done is a small part back out of the pit of despair he has driven them into. It&#8217;s just justice we are asking for after all. Justice. That&#8217;s all.</blockquote>
She segued to the case of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein:
<blockquote>Justice will always be hard for us to get. How often does a rape have a witness? How often is there physical evidence? Our &#8220;beyond a reasonable doubt&#8221; standard makes convictions all but impossible, especially in a society that continues to believe that anything less than
Perfect behavior from birth on the part of the accuser somehow establishes a reasonable doubt as to the behavior of the accused. You can see it all on display now in the Weinstein case, where every misjudgment and misstep and even normal behavior is called into question. To absolve this man of his hard to deny patterns of predation over decades. If he can&#8217;t be convicted, I don’t know who can. But how long did it take for anyone to say anything? Why? Because the people who knew&#8211;and pretty much everyone knew&#8211;were afraid &#8230;</blockquote>
Disney concluded:
<blockquote>They were afraid of him, they were afraid of the people who would rise in his defense, and they were afraid of what people would say about them. Just like the way a million other women didn&#8217;t say what I said. Because they&#8217;d be attacked and vilified for having called out the deification of a man who had done a thing that was hard to forgive.
So yes, we should mourn him. We should mourn his daughter and his family and all the other lives lost on the helicopter. It was horrible. But don&#8217;t deify him because he was not a god. That&#8217;s all. Just don&#8217;t deify him.</blockquote>
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