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.
You're not going to hire a white man to play the little mermaid.
Don't you tell me what to do.
🎶 You’re not going to hire a white man to play the little mermaid. 🎶
“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.
Knowing r/conservative, Disney was probably talking about hiring someone to play Tina Turner in a biopic, or something like that.
That was going to be Rowan Atkinson’s Oscar role! The woke brigade ROBBED HIM!
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?
I don't see any punctuation in that quote, so I'd bet there's a lot of context missing
Who would want to work at Disney tbh
Considering they employ 200,000 people, I’d say quite a lot.
"...because we've probably already hired 90% of them in the history of our company"
oh nooooo poor little white men it's so hard for them
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 is 70% white and the US is 60% white. What’s your point?
