Abigail Disney Calls Right-Wing Attacks on Disney ‘Absurd': ‘It’s an Attempt to Push History Backward’ (Video)

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spoke out against Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” which was signed into law last month.Appearing Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Disney described the anti-Disney campaign as a “coordinated, strategic plan.”“Disney seems like the biggest target because it’s so woven into families,” she told host Brian Stelter. “And so if you can create this idea that somebody’s in there trying to indoctrinate your child, my goodness, the paranoid imagination can run circles with that.”Florida HB 1557 – promoted under the name “Parental Rights in Education” bill but widely known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill – bans primary school teachers from instructing on sexual orientation and gender identity and bans teachers of all grade levels from discussing these topics when appropriate.

At the bill signing in late March, Gov. Ron DeSantis said, “We will make sure that parents can send their kids to school to get an education, not an indoctrination.” Right-wing politicians and media pundits quickly began circulating that phrase when Disney – under pressure from LGBTQ+ employees and the public – came out against the bill and vowed to get it repealed.Abigail Disney called these claims of indoctrination “absurd,” saying: “The thing that Disney stands for more than anything, in every film and especially in the animation – [whether] there’s a gay character or not – is love and acceptance and family and joy.