Disney Shareholders Reject MAGA Proposal On DEI

USA Today reports:

Walt Disney shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal calling for the entertainment giant to drop its participation in a benchmark index used to rank companies on how friendly their policies are to LGBTQ+ people.

The investor proposal presented Thursday at Disney’s annual meeting by the National Center for Public Policy Research, which describes itself as a non-partisan independent conservative think tank, urged Disney to resume a “neutral” stance in political matters.

Disney’s perfect score in the annual Corporate Equality Index survey from LGBTQ+ advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign was due to a “partisan, divisive, and increasingly radical” agenda, the proposal said.

Read the full article. Photo: Disney CEO Bob Iger.

The anti-LGBTQ+ proposal rejected today by Disney shareholders was brought by the same anti-DEI group that lost in overwhelming votes to Costco, Apple, and John Deere shareholders. The National Center for Public Policy Research is now 0-4 in its anti-diversity shareholder proposals this year.

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