Hollywood went woke and never looked back.
It doesn’t matter how many woke projects disappoint at the box office, the industry keeps cranking out more. A rare few, like 2019’s “Booksmart,” actually rose above to make us smile. Most, though, sink under a crush of finger-wagging moments and ham-fisted woke lectures.
So, in no particular order, here are 10 woke movies with little, if any, entertainment value to cushion the messaging blow.
<h4>“Ghostbusters” (2016)</h4>
This franchise reboot (don’t call it a sequel) unofficially kicked off the industry’s woke manifesto. Letting four comic actresses take the baton from the 1984 film’s male quartet told audiences this wasn’t just a franchise extension. It was a broadside against the PatriarchyTM.
The attack proved aggressively mediocre. The comedy’s gender swap mania extended to the ghostbusters’ office clerk, now played by Chris Hemsworth in full “himbo” mode. The film’s first trailer crashed the Internet in all the worst ways, and the film reportedly <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/ghostbusters-box-office-loss-sequel-unlikely-918515/">cost Sony $70 million.</a>
The studio licked its wounds, jettisoned the gender-empowering cast and brought the franchise back from the dead via last year’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.”
<h4>“Antebellum” (2020)</h4>
“Get Out” delivered a rare woke treat. Jordan Peele’s 2017 smash fused progressive messaging with slick genre shocks, and audiences rallied to its side. This slavery-themed shocker tries a similar tactic but fails miserably. Janelle Monae stars as both a powerful author and a slave trying to escape her master’s chains. 
The film clumsily stitches those two character sides together, delivering woke lectures and a painfully predictable story arc. The film’s creepy score was its sole selling point.
<h4>“Charlie’s Angels” (2019)</h4>
“I believe a woman can do anything,” Kristen Stewart’s “Angel” says in the very first line of this franchise reboot. Let the eye rolls commence.
The TV source material had little on its brain beyond titillation and skin-deep stories, but it showcased three strong women saving the day each week. The first film adaptation, starring Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, souped up the action but retained the sexy spirit.
Director Elizabeth Banks surgically removed the pulchritude from the reboot, focusing on Empowerment 101. It flopped spectacularly at the cineplex, crushing the franchise for the foreseeable future. Even the <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/charlies-angels-2019-movie-reboot-kristen-stewart.html">far-Left Slate.com</a> mocked these “Angels” for being so ”concerned with its messaging that it fails to be fun.”
<h4>“Captain Marvel” (2019)</h4>
This MCU origin tale crushed the box office, period, with an eye-popping $426 million stateside. The MCU’s bulletproof brand at the time, not the film itself, can be credited for that.
MCU films typically nail the critical casting calls – think Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). Oscar winner Brie Larson is too smug and charmless as the title character, a Kree warrior trying to crack her identity issues.
The film flounders when it should be soaring, and the comic moments don’t land as they normally do in other MCU romps. “Captain Marvel” introduced woke elements to the franchise, from our heroine’s victim status to feminist dialogue that lands with a thud.
<h4>“Wonder Woman 1984” (2020)</h4>
What happened? How could 2017’s “Wonder Woman” deliver on almost every level, while the ‘80s era sequel stumbles from start to finish? It’s one of the biggest mysteries in recent years, considering the creative team from the original returned for the obligatory sequel.
Gal Gadot remains the quintessential Wonder Woman, but she’s adrift in a sea of campy gags, stiff action sequences and stupefying villains. You can hate Donald Trump all you want, but the Trumpian baddie (the usually reliable Pedro Pascal) crushes the film’s modest momentum.
And, of course, woke flourishes abound, particularly with Kristen Wiig’s pre-villainous character.
<h4>“Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” (2016)</h4>
Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, a seriously underrated comic star, powered the surprise 2014 hit about new parents living next to a sorority house from Hell. A sequel made economic sense, but the minds behind the original had something else in mind for round two.
Female empowerment.
Rogen and co. even hired <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/meet-women-behind-neighbors-2-sorority-rising-article-1.2637136?utm_content=buffer0602c&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=esacks+twitter">two female screenwriters</a> to oversee the project. Why? To ensure an R-rated comedy delivered gender positive characters. They should have spent more time on the jokes. 
This resulted in a disappointing comic dud that hauled in only a third of what the original earned, killing the young franchise in the process.
<h4>“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (2017)</h4>
The middle film in the final Skywalker trilogy remains one of the most debated sequels in modern memory. And for good reason, since it marked Disney’s attempt to woke-ify the beloved brand.
Writer/director Rian Johnson insults “Star Wars” canon, delivering a maddening sequel which stops mid-film for a lecture on wealth inequality. Johnson also emasculates the saga’s Han Solo stand-in (Oscar Isaac) and delivers the ultimate Mary Sue character, Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose Tico.
The film made a mint at the box office ($620 million) but proved far less successful than its predecessor, “The Force Awakens” ($936 million).
<h4>“Downsizing” (2017)</h4>
Writer/director Alexander Payne could do no wrong on the big screen … until this woke belly flop. Payne’s enviro-satire stars Matt Damon as a man who voluntarily shrinks himself to help save the planet. Smaller people, less resources required to sustain them.
The plan goes awry, and the smart setup and lo-fi effects give way to grating supporting characters, the obligatory “wall” reference and other progressive tropes which interrupt the opportunity for enjoyment.
The initial gimmick opened up a world of satirical potential. That Payne couldn’t lean into any one idea captures just how badly “Downsizing” squanders its potential.
<h4>“The Hustle” (2019)</h4>
Duck! It’s yet another gender swap reboot. To be fair, the 1988’s “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” was itself a remake of 1964’s “Bedtime Story.” The ‘80s version became a comedy staple thanks to the chemistry between Steve Martin and Michael Caine.
Suffice to say Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway lack that duo’s comic chops. To be fair, they never had a chance given the atrocious screenplay which hits a false note in the opening scene and never recovers.
The remake doesn’t flood the zone with woke elements, but it doesn’t take a Gender Studies degree to spot them.
<h4>“Suburbicon” (2018)</h4>
Woke has been very bad to Matt Damon. Not only did the #MeToo movement pummel him for not <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/matt-damon-hollywood-reckoning-apology">reciting the proper talking points</a>, he’s also starred in at least two woke bombs. (“Promised Land” deserves an honorable mention here…)
George Clooney directs not one but two ‘50s-era storylines that never coalesce into something coherent, let alone engaging. Damon stars as a family man whose home is invaded by thugs. Meanwhile, a kindly black couple endures endless harassment for daring to move into a mostly white neighborhood.
Yes, Clooney is waving the era’s racism in our faces, but his approach is neither delicate nor engaging. 
Kudos to Oscar Isaac for stealing a few scenes outright, but the moment he leaves the screen the film reverts back to room temperature.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Netflix has pulled the plug on Dr. Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s show, &#8220;Antiracist Baby,&#8221; along with several other proposed offerings that would present a nod — or a total-body immersion experience — to woke culture.
According to a <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/netflix-animated-series-wings-of-fire-antiracist-baby-1235269747/">report from Variety</a>, Kendi&#8217;s &#8220;Antiracist Baby&#8221; — which was aimed at preschoolers — was one of three animated shows to get the axe. The others were the Ava DuVernay-produced &#8220;Wings of Fire&#8221; series and a film titled &#8220;With Kind Regards From Kindergarten.&#8221;
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The streaming service also canned another Kendi project, &#8220;Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You,&#8221; which was intended to be a &#8220;companion piece&#8221; to Kendi&#8217;s &#8220;Stamped From the Beginning.&#8221; The latter, according to Variety, is in post-production and is described as &#8220;a hybrid documentary and scripted feature that delves into race in the United States.&#8221;
Despite a <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/05/netflix-layoffs-us-employees-1235026085/">drop-off in revenue growth</a> that cost 150 primarily U.S.-based employees their jobs this past week, sources at Netflix told Variety that the decision to cancel those projects was not financially motivated. &#8220;The decisions not to move forward with these projects were creative rather than cost related, meaning they would have taken place regardless of the company’s slower revenue growth,&#8221; Variety reported.
&#8220;They were doing an “Antiracist Baby” TV show? Good grief,&#8221; Mark Hemingway <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1527363113778982928">responded</a>.
&#8220;It is … weird … that “Antiracist Baby” was ever a show in the mix for being made, tbh,&#8221; @SonnyBunch <a href="https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/1526731767159324674">added</a>.
In addition, Netflix recently announced it was canceling a planned feminist animated series from actress-turned-exiled-royal Meghan Markle.
&#8220;The series was supposed to revolve around a 12-year-old girl &#8216;on a journey of self discovery&#8217; inspired by the legacy of famous women from history,&#8221; Page Six reported on May 1. &#8220;The executive producer on the series — which was being created through Markle’s and hubby Prince Harry’s Archewell Productions — was Elton John’s husband David Furnish.&#8221;
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&mdash; Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1520937716569227264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The announcements come on the heels of a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/netflix-fires-major-warning-shot-at-its-woke-employees-with-new-culture-memo/">statement</a> from Netflix executives to the streaming service&#8217;s employees, warning them that the company may choose to invest in projects that not everyone agrees with.
&#8220;Entertaining the world is an amazing opportunity and also a challenge because viewers have very different tastes and points of view. So we offer a wide variety of TV shows and movies, some of which can be provocative,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;We support the artistic expression of the creators we choose to work with &#8230; we let viewers decide what’s appropriate for them, versus having Netflix censor specific artists or voices.&#8221;
&#8220;If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you,&#8221; it said.

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Elon Musk and other top figures praised Netflix&#8217;s new corporate culture memo that effectively tells woke employees that the company will not censor content and that if they have a problem with something that the company is producing that they are free to go work somewhere else.
Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-culture-memo-update-censorship-spending-1235264904/">reported</a> late last week that the change in Netflix’s company culture appears to be in large part due to the backlash the streaming service faced from woke employees last year over its Dave Chappelle special, which the employees claimed was transphobic.
The updated Netflix Culture memo includes a new section called “Artistic Expression” that states that it will not “censor specific artists or voices” even if employees consider the content to be “harmful.”
“If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you,” the memo states, later adding that employees may be required to work on projects that they “perceive to be harmful” and that if they have a hard time accepting their work assignment, they might want to consider working somewhere else because the company is not going to bend to pressure.
Musk responded to the news on Sunday, writing on Twitter: &#8220;Good move by @netflix.&#8221;
&#8220;The currents are changing,&#8221; businessman Vivek Ramaswamy said. &#8220;Netflix says it stands for artistic expression and that employees who don’t want to work on content they find offensive can work somewhere else. And they reportedly fired the employee who led the trans &#8216;walkout protest&#8217; earlier this year.&#8221;
Robert J. O&#8217;Neill, the U.S. Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden, wrote: &#8220;Turns out the blue-haired screamers are wrong and capitalism is right.&#8221;
Other notable responses included:
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<li>Christopher F. Rufo, writer: &#8220;We should call this &#8216;The Disney Effect.'&#8221;</li>
<li>Rita Panahi, political commentator: &#8220;DeSantis standing up to Disney (&amp; the media’s) lies about Florida’s parental rights bill is having all sorts of positive consequences.&#8221;</li>
<li>Piers Morgan, political commentator: &#8220;Finally… better late than never @netflix.&#8221;</li>
<li>David Sacks, venture capitalist: &#8220;Netflix gets real.&#8221;</li>
<li>Ayaan Hirsi Ali, human rights activist: &#8220;Common sense is coming back at Netflix.&#8221;</li>
<li>Nick V. Flor, professor: &#8220;Go Woke, Go Broke.&#8221;</li>
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The new section later added that the company supports “the artistic expression of the creators we choose to work with” and that “we let viewers decide what’s appropriate for them, versus having Netflix censor specific artists or voices.”
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A new corporate culture memo from Netflix is taking a hardline stance on attempts to silence artistic expression by warning those who are offended by the streaming service’s content that they may want to go find a job somewhere else.
Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-culture-memo-update-censorship-spending-1235264904/">reports</a> that the change in Netflix&#8217;s company culture appears to be in large part due to the backlash the streaming service faced from woke employees last year over its Dave Chappelle special, which the employees claimed was transphobic.
The updated Netflix Culture memo includes a new section called “Artistic Expression” that states that it will not “censor specific artists or voices” even if employees consider the content “harmful.”
“If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you,” the memo states, later adding that employees may be required to work on projects that they “perceive to be harmful” and that if they have a hard time accepting their work assignment, they might want to consider working somewhere else.
“Entertaining the world is an amazing opportunity and also a challenge because viewers have very different tastes and points of view. So we offer a wide variety of TV shows and movies, some of which can be provocative,” the new section reads, later adding, “we support the artistic expression of the creators we choose to work with” and that “we let viewers decide what’s appropriate for them, versus having Netflix censor specific artists or voices.”
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Netflix has updated its culture memo to include a section called “artistic expression,” which appears to be a response to the criticism around Dave Chappelle’s specials. <a href="https://t.co/yRjd89Xwvq">https://t.co/yRjd89Xwvq</a> <a href="https://t.co/flsvMNYDvP">pic.twitter.com/flsvMNYDvP</a>
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Netflix reportedly fired the leader of a trans organization within the company last October who allegedly organized a walkout to protest the company backing Chappelle over his special “The Closer.”
The Verge <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22728337/netflix-fires-organizer-trans-employee-walkout-dave-chappelle">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The employee was terminated on suspicion of leaking metrics to the press related to the Dave Chappelle special. Those metrics — about how much Netflix paid for The Closer and how many people it reached — subsequently ended up in a report on Bloomberg. While the employee had shared the metrics internally, they spoke out against the leaks to colleagues, worried they might hurt the walkout movement.
The leaking of internal data is highly unusual at Netflix. While the company prides itself on transparency, employees are told that the culture can only thrive when Netflix data remains internal.</blockquote>
This report has been updated to include additional information.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-ceo-doubles-down-on-chappelle-amid-news-of-trans-employee-walkout-humor-doesnt-translate-to-real-world-harm">Netflix CEO Doubles Down On Chappelle Amid News Of Trans Employee Walkout: Humor Doesn’t Translate To ‘Real-World Harm’</a>

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An ice cream shop in San Francisco became embroiled in the ongoing &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement after anti-police protesters descended on an event held at the shop.
<a href="https://www.joesicecream.com/grill-menu">Joe&#8217;s Ice Cream</a>, a Korean ice cream and burger shop located in San Francisco&#8217;s Richmond district, was targeted by anti-police protesters for hosting an &#8220;Ice Cream with a Cop&#8221; event with members of the San Francisco Police Department at the shop on April 29. The event was hosted by a community organizer and sponsored by the SFPD and SF SAFE, a local public outreach group that frequently partners with the SFPD, <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/San-Francisco-police-event-devolves-17159274.php">SFGate</a> reported.
A <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CdCQqxappst/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading">video</a> of the protest was posted to Instagram by a user called &#8220;DoggTown Dro,&#8221; a rapper and anti-police activist from the area. The video, which is more than 7 minutes long, shows protesters yelling &#8220;f*** the police,&#8221; &#8220;Black Lives Matter,&#8221; and other anti-police slogans. One protester, speaking into a microphone, claims that the police are &#8220;on trial for murder&#8221; and that black people are facing a &#8220;genocide.&#8221; At one point, the protester yells &#8220;you should be ashamed of yourselves&#8221; to a family taking a picture with a police officer. The protesters continue to yell at customers and blare loud music, causing the customers to cover their ears and turn away. &#8220;Yeah, cover your ears,&#8221; one protester yells.
At one point during the video, shop owner Alice Kim and her husband go out and talk to the protesters. The protester with the megaphone yells at the couple for comparing recent property damage to the death of <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/sf-to-pay-2-5m-to-slain-unarmed-carjacking-suspect">Keita O&#8217;Neil</a>, who was shot by police in 2017. Kim told SFGate in the aftermath of the incident that she thought the protesters were there to ask for more policing, and tried to use her story of property damage to relate to the protesters. She said that, because of a language barrier, she did not understand the protesters. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t understand the terms they used and what was going on,&#8221; Kim told the outlet. &#8220;If we understood better we can react better, but no one explained it to us and we don’t understand what that means. We can’t properly react.&#8221;
Kim also criticized the video for only showing what the protesters wanted to show. &#8220;They only used the parts they want to show,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The customers were scared, kids were crying and I don’t think they posted all of that.&#8221;
According to SFGate, critics of police, including the protesters, have labeled events like &#8220;Ice Cream with a Cop,&#8221; which seek to promote a positive image of police, &#8220;copaganda.&#8221; The term was brought to public attention last week at a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, when one member criticized such public relations. “Our city departments’ press units should be used to share factual information, not to sensationalize and spin crime data, undermine police oversight, or normalize racial disparities in use of force against people of color within our city,&#8221; said Supervisor Dean Preston, as reported by SFGate.
Kim told the outlet she was upset at being swept up into politics. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be part of political issues,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I’m really sad and not comfortable because people are sending us messages saying, &#8216;you should go out of business.&#8217; The world can be scary. Every day I watch the video. I&#8217;m still having all those nightmares of people coming and harassing my family. At this moment, I&#8217;m a little shaken, too.&#8221; She said she does not anticipate hosting any more of such events in the future.

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Google has reportedly paused an &#8220;inclusive language&#8221; function that replaces words in Google Docs that it deems politically incorrect.
In a Tuesday afternoon statement to The Daily Wire, Google spokeswoman Jenny Thomson compared the feature to a &#8220;thesaurus or spell checker,&#8221; noting that Google is &#8220;committed to making Google Docs helpful for everybody.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s a form of AI that uses language understanding models, based on millions of common phrases and sentences, to automatically learn how people communicate and suggest changes,&#8221; she explained.
&#8220;However,&#8221; she noted, &#8220;inclusive language suggestions—an assisted writing feature—can over or undercorrect certain phrases. We&#8217;re looking more carefully at the inclusive language suggestions and have paused those for further review while we continue to improve this feature.&#8221;
The feature would reportedly show pop-up warnings about supposed non-inclusive words like “policeman,” “fireman” or “housewife,&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/25/google-unveils-woke-writing-feature-for-inclusive-language/?utm_source=reddit.com">according to The New York Post</a>. The publication reported that the feature might suggest the word &#8220;humankind&#8221; instead of &#8220;mankind&#8221; or “police officer” instead of “policeman.”
Writers for Vice <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dk8m/googles-ai-powered-inclusive-warnings-feature-is-very-broken">who tested the feature</a> reportedly found that the words &#8220;annoyed&#8217; and &#8220;Motherboard&#8221; were flagged for being non-inclusive, while a wildly racist transcription of an interview with former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was not flagged.
Meanwhile, according to Vice, the feature suggested that Martin Luther King Jr. should have said civil rights leaders should act with &#8220;the intense urgency of now&#8221; rather than &#8220;the fierce urgency of now&#8221; in his acclaimed &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech.
It also suggested former President John F. Kennedy should have swapped &#8220;for all humankind&#8221; for the phrase &#8220;for all mankind&#8221; in his inaugural address, according to Vice, and that Jesus Christ should have used the word &#8220;lovely,&#8221; &#8220;great,&#8221; or &#8220;marvelous&#8221; rather than &#8220;wonderful&#8221; in the Sermon on the Mount.
The feature, which was not currently in place on Google Docs as of noon on Tuesday, comes as conservatives increasingly look to create alternative options to woke corporations, businesses, and social media platforms, such as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/by-conservatives-for-conservatives-new-credit-card-offers-alternative-to-americans-fed-up-with-woke-businesses">new credit card Coign</a>, the social media platform <a href="https://gettr.com/onboarding">GETTR</a>, former President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://truthsocial.com/">Truth Social</a>, and the global internet infrastructure company, <a href="https://rightforge.com/">RightForge</a>.
News that it has been paused followed criticism that the feature was intrusive, woke and &#8220;very broken,&#8221; as Vice reported.
Transgender activist Debbie Hayton suggested that Google&#8217;s inclusivity feature was Orwellian, tweeting, &#8220;Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.&#8221;
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&quot;Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.&quot;
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&#8220;Google’s new word warnings aren’t assistive, they’re deeply intrusive,&#8221; Big Brother Watch&#8217;s Silkie Carlo told the <a class="class" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/23/big-brother-sorry-big-person-correcting-google/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Sunday Telegraph.</a> &#8220;This speech-policing is profoundly clumsy, creepy and wrong, often reinforcing bias.&#8221;
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro issued a stark warning on Thursday, saying that corporations that chose to &#8220;exit the free market&#8221; and push ideology over business should prepare to &#8220;f*** around and find out&#8221; what would happen to them.
Shapiro argued that any business choosing to wade into politics — specifically politics beyond what directly impacted their business — should be prepared to be treated as a political entity rather than simply as a business.
&#8220;If corporations choose to exit the free market by seeking media and legal dispensation from anti-market Leftists pushing radical social values, don&#8217;t count on those of us who love free markets to defend you. F*** around and find out,&#8221; Shapiro began in a brief Twitter thread.
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If corporations choose to exit the free market by seeking media and legal dispensation from anti-market Leftists pushing radical social values, don&#39;t count on those of us who love free markets to defend you. F*** around and find out.
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&#8220;Corporations have an interest in lobbying on issues that directly impact their business,&#8221; Shapiro <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1517123360731410437">continued</a>. &#8220;If they choose to engage in politics outside their purview, they will be treated with all the aggression inherent to the political sphere, and they will deserve it.&#8221;
Shapiro went on to say that even businesses that did choose to go down that particular road could still turn back.
&#8220;Go apolitical again, and we&#8217;ll all be happy to go back to business. Turn into a propaganda and lobbying wing for the most radical activists, and be treated in kind,&#8221; he said.
Shapiro&#8217;s comments come as the Florida legislature considers stripping Disney of its protected tax status and ability to self-govern — a move prompted by the corporation&#8217;s pushback against the recently-passed Parental Rights in Education law. (Disclosure: The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">has</a> announced plans for children’s entertainment content.)
Disney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-florida-bill-banning-sexuality-gender-discussions-for-little-kids-should-never-have-passed">issued a statement</a> immediately following the law&#8217;s passage, saying, &#8220;Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law. Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.&#8221;
The Florida State Senate <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-floridas-senate-passes-bill-to-end-disneys-self-governance/">passed a measure</a> on Wednesday that would put an end to the company&#8217;s ability to self-govern.
&#8220;The measure potentially delivers a blow to the company’s operations in the state,&#8221; The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-senate-passes-bill-to-eliminate-disneys-special-tax-district-11650473902">reported</a>. &#8220;The special district, created in 1967 and known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District, exempts Disney from a host of regulations and certain taxes and fees related to emergency services and road maintenance.&#8221;
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) explained his support for stripping Disney of its protected status, saying, &#8220;I don’t support special privileges in law just because a company is powerful and they’ve been able to wield a lot of power. I think what has happened is there’s a lot of these special privileges that are not justifiable, but because Disney had held so much sway, they were able to sustain a lot of special treatment over the years.&#8221;
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‘F*** Around And Find Out’: Ben Shapiro Issues Stark Warning To Woke Corps Putting Politics Over Business

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The Left is really trying to make the pregnant man thing work.
Days after Apple released their pregnant man emoji with the iOS 15.4 update, Netflix started promoting a new series called, “He’s Expecting.” The Japanese comedy-drama is slated to be released April 21.
The description <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81030178">reads</a>, &#8220;When a successful ad executive who&#8217;s got it all figured out becomes pregnant, he&#8217;s forced to confront social inequities he&#8217;s never considered before.&#8221; The series stars Japanese actors Takumi Saitoh (Kentaro Hiyama) and Juri Ueno (Aki Seto) as the two main characters. 
“The phenomenon of male pregnancy has been around for more than half a century around the world,” the trailer opens. 
“Mr Hiyama,” the doctor tells Hiyama. “You are a pregnant man.”
“Isn’t a nice world to live in where men can give birth for you,” Ueno says. While telling a friend about hearing the pregnancy news, she quips, “I responded with, ‘Is it really mine?’ Men usually get to use that line.”
The audience also sees Hiyama getting a consent form for abortion. 
He complains about not being able to eat anything without getting nauseous and experiences an embarrassing moment of leaking breast milk at a work meeting. 
The trailer poses another question, saying, “What are &#8216;roles&#8217; anyway? Why put people in boxes like ideal father and ideal mother?” 
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“He’s Expecting” is based on the Japanese Manga series “Kentaro Hiyama&#8217;s First Pregnancy.” The series had biological males able to get pregnant before Hiyama experienced it for himself. According to <a href="https://myanimelist.net/manga/135492/Hiyama_Kentarou_no_Ninshin">MyAnimeList</a>, men around the world start becoming pregnant, but have lower chances of conceiving than women do.
The males give birth via c-section. Another key theme of the series is how pregnant men are discriminated against in society. 
Anyone who watched the classic 1994 comedy “Junior” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is well aware that male pregnancy in the entertainment industry is not a new idea. However, the political climate of 2022 is far different, with trans activists insisting on more inclusive terminology, such as “pregnant people.”
It appears from the trailer and the source material that the main character in “He’s Expecting” is a biological male, not a trans person. The timing of the series release, though, comes at a time when a push for trans acceptance has never been stronger. Normalizing masculine bodies bearing children is a pointed goal of the Left.
The announcement of this new series comes shortly after Netflix announced that it lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 while expecting to lose 2 million more subscribers in the second quarter. Shares of the company dropped more than 20% in after-hours trading, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-woke-go-broke-elon-musk-says-woke-mind-virus-makes-netflix-unwatchable-as-shares-plummet-20">reported</a>.
“The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable,” Elon Musk tweeted in response to the news.
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Another awards show decided to continue &#8220;more woke nonsense&#8221; and remove the Best Actor and Best Actress category — to be gender neutral — in a move being criticized by journalist Rebecca Reid and others on social media.
During the London-based journalist&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;Good Morning Britain&#8221; Monday, things got heated after Reid explained how the removal of these categories is going to &#8220;hurt women&#8221; who she said are &#8220;already under-represented in the industry,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10727971/Too-woke-British-Soap-Awards-axe-male-female-acting-gongs-gender-neutral.html">reported</a> the Daily Mail.
The annual Soap Awards decided to replace the Best Actor and Best Actress Award with the Best Leading Performer Award instead.
&#8220;I mean it would be better if women were on an equal playing field with men wouldn&#8217;t it,&#8221; Reid shared. &#8220;But unfortunately we know that&#8217;s not really the case in a lot of industries. Particularly in music and in performing arts where women, generally speaking win fewer awards.&#8221;
&#8220;And generally speaking particularly older women tend to be disadvantaged,&#8221; she added, providing a stat about how she said women over the age of 40 fail to get number one hits. &#8220;So, we&#8217;re not looking at a world where women were treated equally. If we were, then we wouldn&#8217;t need these categories at all.&#8221;
&#8220;But the problem is we need categories so that we can build women up,&#8221; Reid continued.
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Broadcaster India Willoughby disputed Reid and said that it was all just part of &#8220;moving with the times&#8221; and being &#8220;inclusive.&#8221;
&#8220;All that&#8217;s happening here really is that we&#8217;re moving with the times,&#8221; Willoughby argued, stating that &#8220;younger people particularly&#8221; are &#8220;identifying as non-binary&#8221; and she said it&#8217;s not fair forcing artists to go into the male and or female categories.
She argued this wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;woke&#8221; thing and said she&#8217;s getting tired of hearing the &#8220;expression war on woke&#8221; in the papers.
Reid said she wasn&#8217;t talking about trans people because she said &#8220;trans women would be judged as a women and a trans man would be judged as a man.&#8221;
&#8220;What we are talking about is non-binary people who are at best 0.4% of the population, so a tiny number of people,&#8221; Rebecca added, the outlet noted. &#8220;What we are seeing here is a bit of an over-correction.&#8221;
&#8220;The reality is almost half the people are women, and only less than 1% of people are non-binary, so we are correcting to include a small amount of people,&#8221; the London-based journalist continued.
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&#39;We need categories so that we can build women up.&#39;
The Soap Awards have announced it is ditching best male and female categories for best leading performer. But with stars worrying this will make it harder for female actors to win &#8211; is it wrong to ditch the categories? <a href="https://t.co/EDWlVz1Mcp">pic.twitter.com/EDWlVz1Mcp</a>
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Reid&#8217;s comments were similar to those on social media who blasted the move and called it &#8220;woke nonsense.&#8221;
&#8220;What&#8217;s the need in changing the names of the categories &#8230; who was getting offended by it?&#8221; one person tweeted. &#8220;World&#8217;s gone nuts.&#8221;
Another wrote, &#8220;More woke nonsense. There are actors and actresses. Even transgender or just the confused maintain they are one or the other. Worlds [sic] gone nuts.&#8221;
&#8220;We need categories, as different types of performances are better when performed by either male or female, LGBT performers still fall into one of these groups, and you can identify as anything you want, but you still fall into one or the other biological groups,&#8221; a third person shared.
The Soap Awards follows a move by The Brit Awards which took away gender classifications this year. Adele famously faced a backlash after she said she loves &#8220;being a woman&#8221; at the gender neutral awards show, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adele-faces-backlash-for-saying-she-loves-being-a-woman-at-gender-neutral-awards-show">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
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Journalist Slams Another Award Show Going Woke Removing Best Actor, Best Actress Category To Be Gender Neutral

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LGBT remakes of  the cult classic &#8220;Fight Club&#8221; and the romantic comedy favorite &#8220;My Best Friend&#8217;s Wedding&#8221; are in the works as Hollywood continues to inject woke culture into everything these days — apparently including classic movies.
Cindy Crawford&#8217;s model daughter, Kaia Gerber, will star in an upcoming film titled &#8220;Bottoms&#8221; that&#8217;s been described as a Lesbian version of the famed 1999 thriller starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Jared Leto, <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/04/bottoms-casts-rachel-sennott-ayo-edebiri-marshawn-lynch-more-1234999993/">reported</a> Deadline magazine in a recent piece.
The movie is being directed by Emma Seligman for MGM&#8217;s Orion Pictures and Brownstone Productions. It will star Gerber along with such stars as Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Marshawn Lynch, Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, and more.
The movie centers on two queer unpopular girls who start a fight club in their senior year of school to impress and have sex with cheerleaders, the outlet noted.
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As <a href="https://www.papermag.com/rachel-sennott-kaia-gerber-bottoms-2657144849.html?rebelltitem=8#rebelltitem8">reported</a> by Paper Magazine,
<blockquote>The creation of Bottoms was rooted in Sennott’s desire “to see something with really shitty female characters who are just despicable in their actions in the way that we’ve seen a lot of male characters in raunchy comedies,” while Seligman hoped to make “something for queer teen girls.” So, when discussing the project’s genesis, Seligman stated: “We met in the middle.”
With production beginning this spring, Seligman has teased that the film will contain “fun, more raunchy depictions of queer women” than we’ve seen in recent years. “We’ve gotten the conversion therapy story, the very cutesy story and others as well — I love a lot of those movies,” she stated, but wanted something more akin to teen sex comedies.</blockquote>
And not to be outdone in the woke department, the outlet recently <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/04/ariana-debose-boards-screen-gems-two-and-only-with-jen-rivas-deloose-writing-script-1235001775/">reported</a> that Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose will star in a twist on the famed Julia Roberts romantic 1997 film &#8220;My Best Friend&#8217;s Wedding.&#8221; Only this time the movie will be told from the point of view of DeBose character who&#8217;s described as &#8220;a bisexual Latinx.&#8221;
The movie &#8220;Two and Only&#8221; is being executive produced by DeBose for Screen Gems with an original screenplay by Latina and LGBTQ+ writer Jen Rivas-DeLoose.
DeBose recently took home the Best Supporting Actress Award, as the first openly queer woman of color, for her role as Anita in Steven Spielberg&#8217;s remake of &#8220;West Side Story.&#8221; During her acceptance speech she talked about being queer, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wanda-sykes-opens-oscars-announcing-to-people-in-florida-we-are-going-to-have-a-gay-night">reported</a> by the Daily Wire.
<blockquote>During her award speech, DeBose talked about being queer, and sent a message to anyone who’s ever questioned their identity.
“Lastly, imagine this little girl in the back seat of a white Ford Focus,” Debose explained. “Look into her eyes. You see queer – an openly queer woman of color, an Afro‑Latina, who found her strength in life through art. And that’s what I believe we’re here to celebrate. Yeah.
“So, to anybody who has ever questioned your identity, ever, ever, or you find yourself living in the gray spaces, I promise you this: There is indeed a place for us,” she added.</blockquote>
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LGBT Remakes Of ‘Fight Club’ And ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ Are In The Works

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) published a position statement on Tuesday that has decided reading books and writing essays is overrated and that it&#8217;s time to &#8220;decenter&#8221; those traditional activities.
The new emphasis focused on the need to increase focus on digital media and popular culture.
&#8220;Students should examine how digital media and popular culture are completely intermingled with language, literature, and writing. The time has come to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education,&#8221; the <a href="https://ncte.org/statement/media_education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> read.
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Literacy is expanding. ELA educators must help learners develop knowledge, skills &amp; competencies needed in a digital &amp; mediated world. We address 3 core themes that make media education fundamental to teaching &amp; learning in ELA in a new position statement: <a href="https://t.co/Olbiwar4ru">https://t.co/Olbiwar4ru</a> <a href="https://t.co/1cAOeBYzIP">pic.twitter.com/1cAOeBYzIP</a>
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The statement also claimed its position was needed to help &#8220;address inequalities&#8221; regarding digital technologies.
&#8220;To address inequalities in digital technologies and competencies, continuing curricular innovation in the ELA curriculum at all levels of K–12 education is needed,&#8221; the statement noted.
Reading and writing are now apparently insufficient for the public education of students in language arts.
&#8220;Educators value the use of teaching and learning practices that help to identify and disrupt the inequalities of contemporary life, including structural racism, sexism, consumerism, and economic injustice,&#8221; the statement highlighted.
One Twitter user took to social media to declare that not all educators agree with the council&#8217;s new statement.
&#8220;This is so disheartening,&#8221; he wrote alongside a link to the statement.
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“The time has come to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.”
This is so disheartening.<a href="https://t.co/RuW6ptbnDl">https://t.co/RuW6ptbnDl</a>
&mdash; Matt Ryan hosts #CanonChat (@MatRyanELATeach) <a href="https://twitter.com/MatRyanELATeach/status/1514348742262104072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The emphasis on race, sexual orientation, gender, and social justice continues to find more ways to enter America&#8217;s classrooms, including language arts.
The &#8220;woke&#8221; trend has led several states to push for laws to remove teaching regarding certain areas from classrooms, such as Critical Race Theory (CRT), or sexual orientation and gender identity to younger students.
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem announced earlier in April an executive order to ban the teaching of CRT in the state’s K-12 schools.
Noem addressed the topic during a town hall discussion with residents in Mobridge. The governor shared a video from the event on social media featuring her upcoming signing.
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Critical Race Theory has no place in our South Dakota public education.
That’s why yesterday I announced I will be signing an executive order to ban the teachings in our K-12 schools. <a href="https://t.co/nPYye6E4oT">pic.twitter.com/nPYye6E4oT</a>
&mdash; Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) <a href="https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1511343623568306184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Critical Race Theory has no place in our South Dakota public education,” Noem wrote.
“I brought two bills this legislative session that banned Critical Race Theory from being taught in our classrooms, in our K-12 schools and another one that banned it in our universities,” the governor said in the video.
“The legislature supported and passed it and I signed into law the university one. So now, in South Dakota going forward, Critical Race Theory cannot be taught in our universities. They killed the K-12 one. So tomorrow, I will be signing an executive order to make sure that Critical Race Theory is not taught in our public school systems, too,” she added.
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William F. Buckley Jr. famously said that a “conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling stop.” Over the last few decades, his words have echoed solemnly as conservatives have abandoned competition in the cultural and economic spheres. Unfortunately, to yell “stop,” as conservatives have done for decades, accomplishes nothing. It’s counterproductive by definition and, worse, it violates the core of the American character. Creation, innovation, advancement. We shouldn’t be screaming stop. We should be building alternatives.
To ignore the conquests of the Left and subscribe to “live and let live,” as the adage goes, or to yell “stop,” without action, is to lose. And, man, has the Right gotten good at losing. For too long, conservatives have shrugged at a Left that’s hell-bent on deconstructing societal norms and seizing control of powerful institutions — including corporations.
We’ll throw a fit when something bothers or insults us. We’ll bitch, we’ll moan. We’ll call it cancel culture and ask what the world has come to. Occasionally, we’ll start a non-profit and beg for more donations from billionaires — using messages of “need” and “fighting for the cause,” and other such empty petitions.
But eventually, we come crawling back to the same corporations for goods and services. Yes — the very same corporations who hate us and our values. Because what choice do we have?
What’s the consequence of this cycle – this losing and bitching and begging? What’s the consequence of this self-defeating response that completely abandons culture and competition? You need not look far.
The Walt Disney Company, caving to “pressure” from media and a tiny, radical sliver of their own employees, condemned the falsely labeled “Don’t Say Gay” bill that was passed in Florida this past month. That’s right, they condemned a bill that protects young children from sexual indoctrination and creates transparency for parents – a bill that a majority of Americans support. And Disney did so in spectacular fashion.
A new salvo of leaked videos show Disney executives promising more LGBTQ+ characters, backed by agenda-infused policy. Executive producer Latoya Raveneau said Disney welcomed her “not-at-all-secret gay agenda.” Another executive promised more LGBTQ+ leads in their shows — wherever they could “add queerness.” And, to be perfectly clear, they are talking about children’s programming, not a Marvel show.
Of course, we’ve known for years that this is the Left’s game. To force upon children their delusional – and destructive – view of the world. And, at a glance, you’d think there’d be shame or remorse at such blatant alienation of a whole swath of the population.
But, why would they change course? If they’ve never faced economic consequences, why would they think twice before satisfying the radicals in their camp? They can promise their employees more “LGBTQIA&#8221; content, and still keep conservative viewers, because, well, they won’t leave.
This must end. It’s time corporate America felt the weight of its woke posturing, and face conservative competitors that call them on their bluff.
That’s what we at The Daily Wire have come to recognize. There must be a fundamental shift in the conservative movement if anything that’s made this country great is going to survive.
A call for charity is no longer an appropriate response to aggressive attacks from market players, like Disney and a bevy of other woke companies who hate us. The best response is competition. Competition, with new ventures and innovation.
We don’t need another non-profit — we need great products and for-profit companies that create economic incentives for better behavior. A woke corporation hates you? Create the solution. Like our new DW Kids content that we’ve pledged to invest $100 million into over the next three years to serve those tired of being forced to fund woke media companies, like Disney.
The Left will try to dismiss these ventures. In their hubris, they’ll continue to bifurcate the culture without any fear of economic consequences.  Meanwhile, we’ll be bifurcating the economy.
Conservative companies don’t have legacy marketing clout. We don’t have institutional funding. What we do have, however, is a guarantee that the Left, in their pride, will continue to posture and brag, thereby alienating large portions of their consumer base. Let Disney sink tens of billions into their woke content – that’s tens of billions in promotional material for Daily Wire content, in my calculus.
The Daily Wire just proved this model last week with our release of  “<a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com">Jeremy’s Razors.</a>” We were frankly stunned by the response, though maybe we shouldn’t have been. “Harry’s Razors” dropped their sponsorship with us last year and publicly denounced our conservative views. Rather than complain, we decided to create an alternative.
And in a single week, we sold enough razors to establish a fully sustainable company. One week.
This is reproducible. And this is essential if we want to build a better future.
Conservatives should not have to give money to woke corporations that obviously hate them. We must build alternatives. They no longer have to give money to woke media companies that hate them. They can give it to us. And they can give it to other companies that join in the fight to reclaim our culture and the market.
We cannot win if we do not compete, and if we do compete, well, we might just cause corporations to start competing for our business again, too.
So, join us. Action works. We’ve seen it work. The lose, complain, and beg cycle can be broken.
And Lefties, keep doing what you’re doing. Because it always ends in a sea of market opportunities for us. We’re happy to oblige.
If you are sick of conservatives always losing, then join us and help us fight back against the woke corporations that hate you and your values. For a limited time, you can use the code BUILDTHEFUTURE at checkout to save 45% off your membership. <a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe-build-the-future?utm_campaign=buildthefuture&amp;utm_content=JBarticle" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe-build-the-future?utm_campaign=buildthefuture&amp;utm_content=JBarticle" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">Click here to join the fight</a>.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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