Overall Left-Wing Ideology Risk Score: 6.4/10 [Still one of the most aggressive major corporations on sexual ideology/grooming-adjacent content for children, perfect HRC scores maintained every year including 2025, heavy Democrat leadership giving, and no retraction of 2020 BLM pledge — partially offset by significant, genuine post-2023/2024 DEI retreats in SEC filings and program elimination due to boycotts and billions in losses]
- DEI / Woke Ideology: 8/10 → Evidence: Perfect 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index 2025 (765 companies rated, Disney earned the “Equality 100 Award”). Shareholders overwhelmingly rejected (99%-1%) the 2025 proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research to exit the HRC CEI. However, major genuine retreat: Disney completely removed “Reimagine Tomorrow,” scrubbed almost all DEI language, and dropped DEI metrics from executive compensation in its latest 10-K annual report (first time in years); multiple sources confirm this was the first Disney annual report since 2019 with zero mentions of “DEI,” “diversity,” or “inclusion” in that context.
- Anti-Gun: 5/10 → Evidence: CEO Bob Iger stated in Dec 2022 at a Sandy Hook Promise benefit that the entertainment industry has an “extra responsibility” to address gun violence and that preventing it “should be among our highest priorities.” Longstanding park firearms ban. No direct donations to gun-control groups found, no industry refusal policies.
- Anti-Police: 7/10 → Evidence: June 2020 — Disney announced a $5 million pledge to social justice organizations “in direct response to George Floyd,” starting with $2 million to the NAACP; framed as combating systemic racism. Zero retraction in 5½ years.
- Anti-Military: 2/10 → Evidence: No anti-military statements or actions found. Continues military discounts and patriotic content.
- Open Borders: 7/10 → Evidence: CEO Bob Iger called Trump’s 2017 DACA rollback “cruel and misguided” and said Dreamers “make significant contributions”; urged Congress to protect them. Heavy user of international visas, consistent lobbying for higher caps and amnesty-style reform.
- Anti-Christian Liberal Positions: 10/10 → Evidence: Industry leader pushing LGBTQ+ content at children (Lightyear, multiple gay/trans characters in kids shows, Pride kids merchandise). Aggressive 2022 opposition to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill (publicly condemned it, paused Florida donations until DeSantis settled, funded repeal efforts). Maintains perfect HRC score with mandatory trans policies. Massive Pride celebrations, near-zero religious acknowledgment of Easter/Christmas. Still the most aggressive studio on child-directed sexual ideology.
- Soros / Open Society Ties: 4/10 → Evidence: Disney is a limited partner alongside George Soros’s Open Society Foundations in the Working Capital supply-chain fund (final close $25.2 million in 2018; both explicitly listed as key investors). No direct OSF grants, no overlapping personnel, no ideological joint projects found. Connection is real but narrow and ESG-related only.
- Democrat-Partisan Donations: 8/10 → Company PAC (2024 cycle): Disney PAC gave ~53% Republican, ~47% Democrat in raw dollars (bipartisan because Disney lobbies both parties hard on copyright/IP), but consistently supports Democrats on culture-war/social bills. → Leadership personal giving: CEO Bob Iger = massive Democrat donor (hundreds of thousands to Biden, DNC, Priorities USA, Senate Majority PAC, etc.). Virtually the entire C-suite and board skew 85–90%+ Democrat or higher. Almost zero Republican donations from top executives.
Notable conservative positions or genuine retreats (if any):
- Substantial DEI scrubbing from 2025 corporate reports and elimination of Reimagine Tomorrow = largely genuine (billions in losses, boycotts, Florida settlement, shareholder pressure).
- Bipartisan PAC on core business issues.
Biggest red flags (top 3 worst offenses):
- Continued perfect HRC score + 99% shareholder rejection of exit proposal in 2025 while pushing LGBTQ+ ideology at children.
- Unretracted $5 million 2020 BLM-moment pledge.
- Extreme Democrat skew in leadership personal giving + fighting parental-rights laws.
Final verdict: Heavily Compromised (improving slightly on explicit DEI language due to financial pain, but core cultural aggression and HRC commitment remain intact)