I was curious so I found the article:
https://insidethemagic.net/2024/06/disney-executive-caught-saying-company-wont-hire-white-men-rl1/The quote is exactly what normal people assume it is, out of context and not the entire quote.
Twentieth Century Television Senior Vice President Michael Giordano was caught on a hidden video saying that Disney explicitly does not hire “white men” for specific roles.
For specific roles. That’s pretty fcking obvious. You’re not going to hire a white man to play the little mermaid.
Ironically if they did hire a white man to play The Little Mermaid, the hard right nutjobs would be screaming that it was part of a “woke trans agenda” to normalize crossdressing and eliminate the traditional American male from society lol
It’s not about the point. It’s bout how you can spin it.
The original 20 minute video in the article makes it clear he’s talking about job roles, and mentions writers a few times (admittedly not close enough to draw an 100% certain link). I don’t think it’s enough to discredit this just based on the assumption that he’s talking about actors or that there isn’t enough context. Obviously it’s vague enough that we can’t draw any solid conclusions, so I agree with you there.
The main reason I think this is bullshit is that the guy’s testimony isn’t credible for two main reasons:
- The guy was recently passed up for promotion, and blames it on being white and male
- The interviewer is posing as a romantically interested date and asking plenty of leading questions, the guy is at least partially telling her what she wants to hear
These two points, regardless of how true his story is, give him an ulterior motive for embellishing the story and exaggerating facts, which ultimately means we can’t trust this.
I’d like to see a full investigation, as with any accusation of discrimination. But we all know that when nothing turns up, it wouldn’t shut the right wingers up
So, you’re saying they’re sexist and racist, and we should all be enraged and immediately donate to our favourite bigots?
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🎶 You’re not going to hire a white man to play the little mermaid. 🎶
You’re not going to hire a white man to play the little mermaid.
I don’t know, genderswapping the roles doesn’t seem that far fetched for Disney
Terry Crews as Little Mermaid confirmed?
About time
“No way in hell are we hiring a white man to play miles morales”
There’s no way we’re hiring a white man for this role. They’d be very careful how they’d message that to agents.
Furthering that, they use the word agent. Specifically referring actors.
Sure, but they also said role. Which can just mean job position, is more commonly used for casted actors.
Lots of writers and other crew have agents. It’s not clear from the article if that’s what’s being referred to though.
Your first mistake was going to reddit at all. Your second mistake was going to the y’all qaeda subs.
y’all qaeda… I’ll have to remember that one.
Vanilla ISIS
Yokel Haram
Coup Klux Klan
The version I’ve heard is “coup cucks klan”
It just randomly appears on the news feed. Out of curiosity, I went deeper and lol’d.
Knowing r/conservative, Disney was probably talking about hiring someone to play Tina Turner in a biopic, or something like that.
They were looking for someone to play Martin Luther King.
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No, the MLK part was my own shitpost contribution. But yes it was being taking out of context. The article says they don’t hire white men for “specific roles.”
Interestingly this statement is only presented completely without context. What role where they talking about? I’m sure Steven Miller wouldn’t be satisfied until white men in blackface are playing every role in whatever it is they’re talking about lol
I also would not hire a white man to play the new Psylocke. No context quotes mean we get to insert our own, right?
Psylocke sounds really close to uhh…something.
I really hope the character isn’t Jewish lol.
Edit: Damn alright fine lol, let him be a Jewish superhero named something two letters off from a Jewish slur, I didn’t realize that’d be so popular around here.
Dude, come on. Everyone knows the classic comic character Goldsylockstein isn’t Jewish.
“…because we’ve probably already hired 90% of them in the history of our company”
Hire for what, a janitor? Sounds legit.
I mean. The US has alot of white people so whatever, stupid whining. But here in Canada…
IIRC Canada’s actually touching similar demographic diversity to the US, the difference is more in what demographics specifically since Canada tended to draw from the corners of the British Empire specifically while the US would draw folks from all the rest of the world as well.
Canada had massive immigration from India, and we just started trying to put a lid on that because we realized that it was a bad idea to let in so many people at once. The immigration targets the government has set are bonkers.
It’s always hilarious when the racists come out of the woodwork
Calling me racist while not showing how in racist.
We can all see your comments buddy. You should try reading them too.
I can read, thanks for the concern.
Why would you think I’m concerned about you? Lol
Considering after 15 seconds of looking at your profile, there’s this…
yeah I think it’s pretty obvious
The only ones to concern troll about their targets to the extent you do and complain about everything that doesn’t align with their political views being “too political” are conservatives. You aren’t concerned about the wellbeing of anyone, you want to exterminate the “others” and think you’re smart by using the most basic manipulation tactic of conservatives – feigning concern for the welfare of the people you want to get rid of as a means to make people think your position is acceptable.
Also you support the displacement and genocide of Palestinians by Israel. You seem to be joyful at the thought of Israel’s colonization of Palestine resulting in the destruction of the natives and establishment of a new ethnostate atop their corpses. You are definitely racist as fuck even disregarding the obvious immigration rhetoric and conservative talking points
I’m not conservative. Because I have those views does not make me conservative. I would never vote for a conservative party that guts social programs.
Canada is 70% white and the US is 60% white. What’s your point?
