Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was curious so I found the article:
  insidethemagic.net/…/disney-executive-caught-sayi…

  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.

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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    • sfxrlz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not about the point. It’s bout how you can spin it.

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    • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, the little mermaid should be a danish woman. Like thats where the tale comes from. if they want a diverse movie, why not use a tale from somewhere that isnt europe?

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  • HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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 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

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m buying a ton of Disney stuff right now to throw on the bonfire tonight.

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  • puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Personally, I would love to see the little mermaid played by a big, burly man.

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    • Atin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Terry Crewes would be perfect for the role

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    • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Then what kind of absolute unit can even be cast for daddy Tritron?

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re not going to hire a white man to play the little mermaid.

    Don’t you tell me what to do.

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    • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      🎶 You’re not going to hire a white man to play the little mermaid. 🎶

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Terry Crews as Little Mermaid confirmed?

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As much as I dislike Disney as a company that does sound interesting… really actually being up so many new possibilities to revisit the classics!

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “No way in hell are we hiring a white man to play miles morales”

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  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • _tezz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lots of writers and other crew have agents. It’s not clear from the article if that’s what’s being referred to though.

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    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure, but they also said role. Which can just mean job position, is more commonly used for casted actors.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your first mistake was going to reddit at all. Your second mistake was going to the y’all qaeda subs.

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  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    y’all qaeda… I’ll have to remember that one.

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    • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yokel Haram

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    • mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Vanilla ISIS

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Coup Klux Klan

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It just randomly appears on the news feed. Out of curiosity, I went deeper and lol’d.

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• art@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Knowing r/conservative, Disney was probably talking about hiring someone to play Tina Turner in a biopic, or something like that.

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  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That was going to be Rowan Atkinson’s Oscar role! The woke brigade ROBBED HIM!

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, according to the articles, it includes writers and executives.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There have been multiple links in the comments to the articles, hours before your comment. Which part exactly said it includes writes and executives?

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    • realbadat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is not what the article says.

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    • art@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you have a link?

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• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Executives and writers were drectly mentioned

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just read one of the linked articles. It didn’t say this.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      By who?

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• AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They were looking for someone to play Martin Luther King.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, the MLK part my own shitpost contribution. But yes it was being taking out of context. The articles says they don’t hire white men for “specific roles.”

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• Sumocat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I also would not hire a white man to play the new Psylocke. No context quotes mean we get to insert our own, right?

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Psylocke sounds really close to uhh…something.

    I really hope the character isn’t Jewish lol.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dude, come on. Everyone knows the classic comic character Goldsylockstein isn’t Jewish.

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• Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t see any punctuation in that quote, so I’d bet there’s a lot of context missing

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• therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “… To play Frozone”

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The article: insidethemagic.net/…/disney-executive-caught-sayi…

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “…because we’ve probably already hired 90% of them in the history of our company”

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• tkk13909@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who would want to work at Disney tbh

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  • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Considering they employ 200,000 people, I’d say quite a lot.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  oh nooooo poor little white men it’s so hard for them

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hire for what, a janitor? Sounds legit.

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• librejoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean. The US has alot of white people so whatever, stupid whining. But here in Canada…

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • librejoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Canada is 70% white and the US is 60% white. What’s your point?

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