The stir these employees made by speaking out has also highlighted how the ground has shifted under the company’s feet.
The legislative and legal imbroglio around this has just begun, with Disney arguing that the revocation of the special governing powers surrounding the Reedy Creek Improvement District (the governing body on which the park sits and which was conceived through the efforts of Walt Disney, as I’ll explain) actually puts Florida taxpayers on the hook for said district’s $1B of outstanding debt. Seemingly in retaliation, DeSantis and the state legislature moved to rescind Disney World’s status as a kind of private fiefdom within the state of Florida. Historically tight-lipped and loyal Disney employees openly called on their employer to take a stand against a law passed by Governor Ron DeSantis and supported by the greater body of incoherent Trump worshippers: The state’s odious “Don’t Say Gay” law. On the one hand, it is unthinkable that the Walt Disney Company and Disney World specifically-one of Florida’s biggest employers and most overbearing lobbying entities-has found itself in a position between its employees’ calls for action and the appalling policies recently passed by the state it has called home for over 50 years. So it is difficult to describe what, exactly, I feel as I watch the theme park that embodies its media empire besieged by fascists, flying Nazi flags outside its pristine gates, all while the government that has been friendly to Disney’s plans for expansion and redevelopment revokes the special arrangement that’s made the whole thing possible since the company acquired all the land in the 1960s. Sometimes, the only thing I can think about when I watch something from the Mouse House is what cultural forces were responsible for it.
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