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A Disney World superfan is rethinking his commitment to the theme park giant and its host city over the company s new woke policies to foster a more inclusive environment.
In an Orlando Sentinel op-ed, Jonathan VanBoskerck said he and his family vacation at the theme park every year and spend way too much money in Orlando, Fla. But lately, he feels the park has capitulated to political forces while abandoning its mission of providing guests with an immersion experience.
Apr 23, 2021
Now, having never been to Disney World.or Land for that matter I don t have a ton of skin in this race however personally I think removing images, characters or other sexiest racist troupes is always a good thing. This guy? Not so much.
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Jonathan Vanboskerck wrote an Op-ed piece for the Orlando Sentinel where he expressed that he no longer can enjoy the Disney World experience since Disney has begun removing certain racist and sexiest characters from rides and allowing employees of the Disney parks more freedom with how they dress.
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It’s not very often that I am astonished by the sheer caucasity of white people. I’ve written stories about a white woman claiming to have been called the n-word in school because she has bigger lips than like six other white people; a story about a Republican declaring that the three-fifths compromise wasn’t racist; one about a guy who argued with his entire chest that a Robert E. Lee High School shouldn’t be renamed because “Jesus never condemned slavery”; and I’ve writtenseveralarticlesabout white people’s bootleg Braveheart anti-mask revolution that they haveinsisted is comparable to America’s civil rights movements.
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The Orlando Sentinel published an op-ed on Friday by a loyal Disney fan that condemned the evolving “wokeness” of Disney World. His claims were met with ridicule from people across the entertainment industry.
“I love the Orlando Sentinel, but racist ‘journalism’ is ruining the experience,” “Frozen” actor and frequent Disney employee Josh Gad tweeted.
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The guest author of the piece, Jonathan VanBoskerck, is a chief deputy district attorney in Clark County, Nevada; he also disclosed that he is a Christian and conservative Republican. As someone who would have to journey across the country to visit the theme park, VanBoskerck explained that “Disney World is going to lose us as customers if it continues down this path.”
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Jonathan VanBoskerck, a Disney fan who lives in North Las Vegas, Nevada, recently slammed Disney World and the Walt Disney Co. in a column, saying the “wokeness” of the company has made the theme park less enjoyable.
Social media did not take well to the column.
In his piece for The Orlando Sentinel, VanBoskerck specifically called out Disney’s decision to change its dress code to allow cast members to express themselves with their own hairstyles, tattoos and other forms of expression.