WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for the Washington Examiner calling out Disney’s hypocritical move to appease the woke mob and push a false narrative to oppose Florida’s commonsense Parental Rights in Education Act, while continuing to do business with the genocidal regime in Communist China.

In the op-ed, Senator Rick Scott wrote, ”I have never understood businesses that intentionally engage in partisan politics to the point that they effectively attack half of their potential customers. I spent my life in business, and this idea never occurred to me. It must be some kind of new woke business theory, but it makes no sense. That’s why I just cannot understand what the Walt Disney Company is doing.

Disney used to be the happiest place on Earth, now it’s just woke central. It’s on the losing side of an issue that the majority of families, regardless of political ideology, agree with.

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The people of Florida are not extremists or bigots. They do not hate gay people. Our state is a melting pot of cultures, and we embrace that. We’re proud of it. The Florida Legislature passed, and the governor signed, a very commonsense bill that discriminates against no one — except, that is, adults who want to talk to your children about sex.

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What’s interesting is that the wokeness Disney has embraced in Florida isn’t reflected in its business around the world. While Disney tries to lecture us with these extreme views, the mouse is completely unwilling to speak up for freedom and against real oppression in places such as Communist China.

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So apparently, genocide is tolerable, but demanding that parents have a say in their children's schooling goes just a bit too far.

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Here’s what’s clear: Parents are smart, and woke businesses are as dumb and hypocritical as ever.

Maybe we should thank Disney for showing us who it really is. I’ll tell you one thing — I won’t be going back or watching Disney+ anytime soon, and I bet a lot more parents and grandparents are making that same choice.”

Read the full op-ed in the Washington Examiner HERE.

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