{"id":1425314,"date":"2022-04-08T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425314"},"modified":"2022-04-08T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:30:19","slug":"watch-disney-ceo-bob-chapek-issues-groveling-apology-to-company-lgbtq-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-disney-ceo-bob-chapek-issues-groveling-apology-to-company-lgbtq-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Disney CEO Bob Chapek Issues Groveling Apology to Company LGBTQ Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-disney-ceo-bob-chapek-issues-groveling-apology-to-company-lgbtq-activists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425314&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Disney CEO Bob Chapek issued a groveling apology to LGBTQ activists in his company this week while promising to take urgent action to meet their needs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the company\u2019s\u00a0\u201cReimagine Tomorrow\u201d summit, Chapek began by pledging \u201cto be a better ally for the LGBTQ+ community\u201d and apologized \u201cfor not being the ally that you needed me to be\u201d while assuring that he is \u201ccommitted to ensuring that our company lives up to its values.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve read many emails that have been sent, spoken with LGBTQ employees and their allies, met with advocacy groups, and convene my own leadership team, and I have been taken by the honesty, the openness, and the urgency of their stories,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you to know that your words have made a real impact on me,\u201d he added. \u201cI understand that we\u2019ve made mistakes, and the pain of those mistakes have caused, and I know that our silence wasn\u2019t just about the bill in Florida, but about every time an individual or institution that should\u2019ve stood up for this community, did not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chapek concluded that he and the Disney leadership team will work with the\u00a0LGBTQIA+ Advisory Council and other groups to take the proper action.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am convening a meeting with all my direct reports and representatives of the Advisory Council to discuss the thoughtful suggestions that have been made,\u201d he concluded. \u201cBut we know the moment requires urgency and words are not enough, so we are taking some actions right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Disney CEO Bob Chapek grovels, apologizes, and pledges to &#8220;be a better ally for the LGBTQ+ community.&#8221; He delegated the company&#8217;s moral authority to the &#8220;LGBTQIA+ Advisory Council&#8221; and now those internal activists have taken him as an ideological hostage. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/efOSOmb47a\">pic.twitter.com\/efOSOmb47a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1512192241959284747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chapek\u2019s leaked apology comes on the same day that video showed a Disney executive saying the company has been \u201ctargeting\u00a0Gen Z and millennials\u201d with LGBTQIA2S+ content, and that her son told her, \u201cGen Z is 30 to 40 percent queerer than the other generations, mom, so Disney better get with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Disney corporate president Karey Burke, the &#8220;mother of two queer children,&#8221; says the company has been &#8220;targeting Gen Z and millennials&#8221; with LGBTQIA+ &#8220;inclusion&#8221; content. Her son told her that &#8220;Gen Z is 30-40% queerer&#8221; and that Disney &#8220;better get with it.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CYYD7NqKZg\">pic.twitter.com\/CYYD7NqKZg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1512180918579986432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe were targeting a young, I think, more open-minded \u2014 and now we know, as my son texted me this morning: \u2018Gen Z is 30 to 40 percent queerer than the other generations, mom, so Disney better get with it,\u2019\u201d the Disney executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/04\/07\/disney-executive-celebrates-targeting-gen-z-and-millennials-with-lgbtqia2s-content-nobody-stopped-us\/\">said<\/a>.<br \/>Another video showed\u00a0executive producer Latoya Raveneau saying how she wants to \u201cuse [her] content\u201d at Disney to help educate children about \u201cthe pockets of the LGBTQ community that you don\u2019t see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI identify as, like, a bi-romatic asexual,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/04\/07\/disney-executive-boasts-about-exploring-gay-advanced-and-gay-101-content\/\">Raveneau said<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of learning and growing about myself this year, kind of facilitated by how comfortable I felt on\u00a0<em>The Proud Family<\/em>, and with my immediate team at Disney TVA.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Disney executive producer Latoya Raveneau says she identifies as a &#8220;bi-romantic asexual&#8221; and that she wants to &#8220;use [her] content&#8221; at Disney to educate children about &#8220;the pockets of the LGBTQ community that you don&#8217;t see,&#8221; such as the asexual community. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gNJ0CItgqV\">pic.twitter.com\/gNJ0CItgqV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1512164629836931085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney CEO Bob Chapek issued a groveling apology to LGBTQ activists in his company this week while promising to take urgent action to meet their needs. 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