{"id":1462434,"date":"2022-05-03T15:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T19:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462434"},"modified":"2022-05-03T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T19:29:42","slug":"we-put-a-price-on-woke-capital-christopher-rufo-explains-game-plan-for-fighting-radical-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-put-a-price-on-woke-capital-christopher-rufo-explains-game-plan-for-fighting-radical-corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Put A Price On Woke Capital\u2019: Christopher Rufo Explains Game Plan For Fighting Radical Corporations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fwe-put-a-price-on-woke-capital-christopher-rufo-explains-game-plan-for-fighting-radical-corporations%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=1462434&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>Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo laid out his game plan for defeating woke corporations like Disney through investigative reporting and politics in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The fight between Republican Florida Gov. Ron <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/02\/desantis-child-sex-change-operation-lisa-boothe-florida\/\">DeSantis<\/a> and Disney has created a model for conservatives to fight corporations pushing radical ideologies, Rufo, an advocate against Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other forms of left-wing education, told the DCNF. His strategy is to expose what corporations are doing, get people to care and make a legislative push for meaningful political changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I try to do is take my investigative reporting and connect it with political power,\u201d Rufo told the DCNF. \u201cYou have to first generate stories and media and narrative to explain to people exactly what\u2019s happening. And then you have to actually enforce it through the democratic process with legislative activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Disney has adopted a benefits program to assist employees and their minor children with \u201cgender affirmation procedures.\u201d This type of treatment typically includes puberty blockers, breast removal, and genital surgeries for \u201ckids who are transitioning.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a2zSSboe0S\">pic.twitter.com\/a2zSSboe0S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1512151268873146376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rufo played a key role in the recent fight between <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/01\/treated-pedestal-gov-ron-desantis-disney-wokeness-destroy-country\/\">Disney<\/a> and Republican DeSantis over a law restricting sexual and gender ideology being taught in classrooms. He <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/disney-leaked-lgbt-gay-transgender\/\">leaked<\/a> videos which purportedly showed internal Disney meetings in which employees plotted to inject sexual identity and gender ideology into its programming and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/08\/disney-christopher-rufo-gender-transition-transgender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a> company efforts to help employees medically transition themselves and their children to the opposite sex.<\/p>\n<p>After public outrage over the company\u2019s political stances and the leaked videos, DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/20\/desantis-disney-florida-reedy-creek-improvement-district\/\">revoked<\/a> Disney\u2019s special self-governing privileges, and Disney <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/28\/disney-politics-ron-desantis-florida-lgbt-parental-rights-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vowed<\/a> to stop fighting that particular Florida law and be more quiet about politics generally.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/06\/corporate-media-groomers-republicans-florida-gay-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Corporate Media Wonders Why Conservatives Are So Worried About \u2018Groomers\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve created now this model where, just recently, The Wall Street Journal reported that CEOs around the country are asking each other, How do we prevent ourselves from becoming the next Disney?\u2019\u201d Rufo told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate leaders have scrambled to avoid the same pitfalls as Disney, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/amp\/articles\/disneys-clash-with-florida-has-ceos-on-alert-11651440367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the WSJ, while DeSantis\u2019 challenge to Disney\u2019s special district was an escalation compared to other Republican politicians\u2019 strategies to rein in corporations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe put a price on woke capital. We\u2019re enforcing it,\u201d Rufo said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep pressing and keep fighting and keep delivering consequences for companies that transgress out values and this is how we\u2019re going to win this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo laid out his game plan for defeating woke corporations like Disney through investigative reporting and politics in an interview with the Daily Caller News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":1481438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}