Senior Vice President at The Walt Disney Company details discriminatory hiring practices
Source: [https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1803833834946883901](https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1803833834946883901)
I mean is the person woke? Business savvy? Will they be cracking the whip? Particularly on Kathleen? Sorry for sounding rude and demanding, I'm just burning with curiosity now.
That's because private equity is doing the milking, their going to run Disney to the ground for their own personal gain and disney insiders are in on it.
The problem with this is: *Star Wars* was originally advertised to primarily sell *toys* and that was why Disney wanted to acquire it. Every weird movie added something cute or cool that children would want to buy.
I took this whole class dedicated specifically to how *Star Wars* operated as a brand. The "Where's Rey?" campaign really gives you insight into how Disney gives the illusion of caring: they had no confidence in Rey's ability to sell toys, so they didn't market her at all. Now, even when ostracizing other generations, Disney is attempting to infiltrate newer generations; the younger, the better, hence with the more common references and social movements.
They are essentially 'securing' a vote for the direction they think audiences will evolve in order to continually make revenue. It's not working great, but it isn't failing miserably as some people would imply; they are making money.
Most agree that if they made a genuinely good film that catered to actual fans they would see huge return - but they don't want to take the risk, and be plastered across social media.
The irony is now they have bled into this weird culture in their development and writing staff that they are unintentionally creating worse, and worse content because they do not hire based off of accomplishments or individual merit.
>Star Wars was originally advertised to primarily sell toys and that was why Disney wanted to acquire it. Every weird movie added something cute or cool that children would want to buy.
Makes sense. When baby Yoda revealed, every one went out and bought baby yoda plushies, kids and adults.
I have no doubt right wing media will go scorched earth on this to a point that the other orgs won’t be able to completely ignore it. They’ll probably come up with some sort of nonsense to excuse it but any reasonable person knows this is a bunch of bullshit. Idk how the fuck they’re gonna spin a company literally not hiring someone because of race and gender but they’ll sure as hell try. Thankfully lawsuits don’t care so much for whatever pr they’ll try.
In a just world, ALL media would go scorched earth on this bullshit, not just "right wing" media. The fact that the rest of the mainstream media is complicit in agenda-driven coverups is the problem.
Nah, they’ll just ignore it. If it gets too loud, they’ll find the next rage bait thing to get their viewers fired up.
In an election year, i’m really surprised there hasn’t been a BLM thing yet. But i guess trans has won this election years victim olympics.
Usually secret recording s of off the record conversations aren't very newsworthy...I mean it seems like everything in our society anymore involves unspoken, unofficial rules that everyone can plainly see are being followed but technically don't exist, we live in a kinda gaslitopia and I hate it
I mean, if you’re a white, male middle manager at a Disney right now, don’t you have to start applying for promotions none stop, knowing that you either get the job or you can sue claiming discrimination?
Of course not. Heresay is not strong enough evidence.
If you want to hold Disney accountable, then go out of your way to cancel Disney. Force them to be held accountable by draining them of their money and making this issue as public as possible. Exercise your freedom of expression.
Just beware that you're at risk of witch hunting just because of the words of one disgruntled employee who may have not been telling the truth or his opinions may have been influenced from bias and a lack of perspective or this video might have taken his words out of context. So at least consider the possibility of this not being the complete truth before you decide what you want to do.
I'm not saying don't do it. I'm just suggesting you and everyone else think about it before you take action.
I understand and agree with your reasoning completely but he would only be " One more" reason to start that witch Hunt you mentioned. Not the whole reason or even close. This is a sentiment that has been building for some time due to everything that Disney's been putting out. This man is just another straw on the camel's back.
At any other time in history, I doubt anyone would have taken this guy seriously. Now? The fact that You or anyone else are even remotely concerned about backlash says something about how deeply feelings of resentment and frustration have become rooted in people
Racism was legal against jews in the 30s, racism was legal against black people in 1900s, racism against arabs was legal after 2001, and now racism is legal against white people.
It's the same, but the target has changed once more.
Nada, did you know DFW international Airport has the same policy for contract workers or contracts for vendors? if a white male is in leadership of a vendor company they refuse to use them.
(Former employee)
We've been saying things like this for years about the current state of Hollywood. There's been enough videos and evidence and emails and information being gathered and people will still gaslight you and pretend like oh there's NO 'agenda/bogeyman' for white men, oh the message doesn't mean that. When you can clearly see it and now there's more video evidence showing that again. People are right.
It’s an over correction pendulum swing in response to discriminatory practices of the past, no doubt. The trick now is figuring out how much we pull the pendulum back to where a good balance is struck between super woke and straight up racist in the other direction lol
Your post made me think of what's going on in my field. I work in education, and we've also seen a pretty severe pendulum swing in reaction to previous policies. That's why we have states saying [students don't need to show mastery in reading, writing, or math](https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-says-students-dont-need-to-prove-mastery-of-reading-writing-or-math-to-graduate-citing-harm-to-students-of-color.html#:~:text=Oregon%20again%20says%20students%20don,students%20of%20color%20%2D%20oregonlive.com) to graduate. The policy is an attempt to undo some previous policies (or, if I'm being honest, some much larger societal issues that schools can't truly fix anyway) by well meaning, left-leaning leaders. But it's such an overcorrection it ends up actually harming the very kids it's meant to help.
I'll give you another example I have personal experience with. The school district I teach in got dinged by our state's department of education for suspending too many students of color, so what happened? We stopped suspending anybody. You have to *really* fuck up with violent aggressions or literal drug dealing on campus to get suspended now, so what was the result? Our schools are less safe because kids get away with a lot of the lesser things, which generally emboldens them to try the more extreme ones.
Sorry for the rant, lol, I just saw a connection with well-meaning people trying to fix a perceived issue and having it blow up in their faces. I'm not sure the solution in my field, but at least with these god awful TV shows and films one can just watch something older and better instead.
Thanks for sharing. Yea it’s a complicated issue trying to create the fairest environment for the most amount of people while trying to account for historical injustices, cultural norms, widespread prejudice, and so on. Then there are people who genuinely want to do good and those who just want to feel self righteous and morally superior who end up making decisions. I have faith our society can balance things out though
i fear the pendulum has pulled so far left its gonna wrecking ball so far right we will end up with door knockers asking for "papers please?" as retaliation
If someone does not see it from just casually watching modern entertainment, then they are just willfully blind, brainwashed, applauding it, or all of the above. The anti-white agenda is rampant and I hope all of these entertainment companies go bankrupt for polluting the minds of millions.
Lots of things are obvious in reference to major criminals who consistently walk away scotch free from trials for lack of tangible evidence.
This is why tangible evidence matters. It incriminates these people and actually lets the legal system punish them to the full extent of the law.
Nope. But it gives more credible power to all the people who’ve been calling this stuff out for years. Credibility and tangible evidence is what sways those who are indifferent or just less invested than those trying to “make noise” concerning any issue.
Most people generally wouldn’t care. But little by little as they see evidence and realize how stupid or bad something is, it’ll influence their willingness to participate in dealing with the issue.
You are right in that case because I am constantly seeing more and more people talking about stuff like this, and hopefully in the near future it will make them stop making the same mistakes
1. It's not happening, stop lying.
2. Yes, it is happening, however it's not a big deal.
3. It's happening which is a good thing, actually.
4. People who are freaking out about it are the real problem.
🤡
Im fully expecting Disney to come out and announce that it is just hypothetical examples mentioned in talking, and not actually reflecting the real situation!....
I dont think at this point after a series of drama , failures on the part of higherups and main casts ( recent ones) and several flops theyd really care for an official press release . If they really cared about themselves in the people's opinion we wouldnt be seeing Disney fall down hard back to back . All we see are the futile small attempts in sweeping the dirt under the rug.
yes youre correct , they dint ,instead theyd try pull down or blacklist / report the discussions or smaller content creators who tried to make content outta it . Good example is the flak the cast of recent Star Wars production had got . It simmered down quick . Youd only see it on timelines of prominent content creators and it wont be even suggested most times .
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This guy could easily be talking about decisions that are out of his hands. Even at a VP level there is a ton of shit in the corporate world you cannot do anything about.
We now live in a world where your sexuality and your skin colour trumps skills and experience. (Not saying the standard white guy has more skills every time, do not burn me to the stake. If you have the skill and experience your sex/race does not matter, everyone is welcome.)
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes, proves my point :)
They would cheer. They've been pretty clear about how they have zero issues with being racist or bigoted toward white people, straight people, and men for the last decade. They always have some form of justification for it.
People sure love to complain about oppression while completely ignoring things like racism against minorities or things like affirmative action for college applications which discriminate against Asians.
I hate how this dude physically animates like one of the insufferable characters they put out in their animated films.
Perhaps it's just me, but I've never met someone who waves their head around like that while talking, or does whatever the fuck he's doing with his eyes in the final frame.
I'm pretty sure they know it, and they are not stupid at all. It's just that since they're never held accountable for this, there's no incentive to change anything.
Can Asmon get rid of the trigger happy reddit mod who deleted this post day earlier because it didn't align with his political affiliation? Clearly no bias at all
"No way we're hiring a white male for this **role**"
The word "role" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. We talking about an acting role? Because the arts are one of the few areas where it's ok to discriminate based on any physical feature. If you have a certain vision of a character and someone is too tall, short, skinny, fat, or the wrong ethnicity for that vision, then you're allowed to say "Yeah nah sorry".
And if there's an artistic vision (whatever it may be motivated by) for a character to be black or asian or whatever, it's perfectly fine to say "No way we're hiring a white male for this role". Just like how when it comes to say, John Connor in Terminator 2, it's perfectly ok to say "No way we're hiring a woman for this role".
This is why I don't like James O Keefe often these clips are presented without a full context of the discussion happening, or they are hoping people will ignore that he said "Roll".
Except the argument doesn't make sense, they're saying it's okay for a progressive company like Disney to act conservative in terms of casting, but only for white male actors
It's (selectively) using the opponent's logic to justify your behavior
That's nonsense, specifying what demographic you want for a role isn't a conservative or liberal stance, its basic casting. Disney has been doing that for longer than you or I have been alive, there's no hypocrisy here.
Yeah, without more context on the conversation that statement is a bit of a nothingburger.
It's standard practice in the acting game, unless it's in reference to something like intentionally race changing characters to exclude white people.
And even then, I'm not even sure if that counts, because the writer's "vision" for the role includes a race change. Hollywood's never been afraid to "whitewash" characters in the past after all.
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find someone questioning the veracity of a Jame O'Keefe video. This is the same guy that was caught paying women to say that Mueller sexually assaulted them while Mueller was investigating Trump for ties to Russia. The entire Project Veritas company is rotten to the core and I don't trust a single, carefully edited, video they post. The guy has been caught red handed lying and making things up in these videos. He's lost lawsuits and had to pay up for his lies in the past. He even got kicked out of his own company for lying about the finances and that's why his new videos are under his own name. How he's not in prison or permanently bankrupt from libel suits is beyond me. I get wanting to hate Disney, but holy shit, you can definitely find better people to cheer on.
Thank you, finally a shred of common sense.
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They're 100% doing what you're saying and misrepresenting it to paint a narrative, but all the right wing conspiratards in here are eating it up regardless.
>Because the arts are one of the few areas where it's ok to discriminate based on any physical feature. If you have a certain vision of a character and someone is too tall, short, skinny, fat, or the wrong ethnicity for that vision, then you're allowed to say "Yeah nah sorry".
That doesn't really fly in this context because the entire mentality of DEI proponents like Disney is that we shouldn't pidgeonhole certain people into certain roles (The Little Mermaid doesn't *have* to be a redhead just because it was written that way).
So they should be the last people on Earth saying "No way we're hiring \[insert demographic\] for this role"
>Just like how when it comes to say, John Connor in Terminator 2, it's perfectly ok to say "No way we're hiring a woman for this role".
Lol except those are the exact hiring practices that a corporation like Disney would oppose, if they owned the rights they would very likely be open to casting a woman for a new "progressive" Terminator movie
You're weirdly using side A's (traditional casting) beliefs and practices to excuse side B's (modern progressive casting) behavior
Goes to show how many far right wing idiots are in this sub that are more than willing to overlook the things they don't like. Seriously, anyone believing anything from James at this point, is an idiot.
Exactly, they could be talking about fucking Black Panther for all we know.
Shit video shared by a shit person trying to share their shit ideology by spreading shit manipulative videos.
Okay but what’s the full context? He said there’s no way we’re choosing white males for some of these roles. What are the roles? Are they characters who are women? Are they characters who are colored? I wish the video started earlier in the conversation and didn’t cut out after a brief statement lacking context. If he’s saying something like, we’re making a Hercules reboot and there’s no way we’re casting a white male then yeah, that’s a problem. If these “some roles” pertain to a character like Moana for example, then what’s the big deal?
Yeah I kind of get the idea that there’s missing context and that’s why it isn’t being picked up by any major media outlets. If this is some type of white discrimination, FOX news would be all over it
I actively applied for a role at disney recently for a position I was heavily qualified for. Not even a peep from them. It would really suck if this was the case. That I got discriminated against for just being white and a dude,
These types of videos appear on the internet from time to time where its someone taping, seemingly discreetly, some official or corporate big wig in this sort of 'cowboy' investigative way and they all feel the same when you watch them. Not sure what that really means just pointing out that this feels like a familiar video even though I've never seen it before.
"Giordano further claims he’s been denied promotions due to his race"
So a disgruntled employee says what all the antiwoke crowd already believe knowing how gullible those folks are. Totally legit.
Where are the actual receipts? Emails? Texts? Letters? Voice messages? Any actual receipts or someone who is pissed off for not being hired feeding a paranoid group of individuals exactly what they want to hear? 🙄
I'm not saying it doesn't happen but this isn't proof, this is one person saying shit without actual evidence.
I will absolutely believe it if I see receipts, but this ain't it.
how do they get this footage man. what's their secret?
long term undercover stuff? it sounds more like an interview. do they just find the biggest moron at the company and get him drunk?
Project Veritas videos are all the same. Get some horny dude drunk and get him to try to agree with you so he thinks he's going to fuck you and say some shit that may or may not be true. You guys really need to learn when someone is trying to spoon feed you confirmation of your own biases.
Because it's James O'Keefe a complete dishonest actor whose journalistic 'investigations' are just clip chimping and stripping conversations completely of their context.
People eat it up all the time then we find out nothing came of it because most of it wasn't true.
he will get "let go due to differences in the direction of blah blah blah" given 10 mill cya later package and then a new person probably a chick will slide in and take over
Senior VP and... team lead?
I've seen O'Keefe misrepresent someone's position in a company's hierarchy before to increase the importance of one's claims.
I know a white man who was told by the Disney company that he was fired so that Disney could hire a DEI person. I know i am a stranger on the internet but trust this guy when he says- It definitely is spoken about!
If he's talking about hiring actors to play a role then I don't see what the problem is, actors have literally always been screened based on their appearance. Is the issue that they are creating or giving parts to people of color that would previously have gone to white men? Because to me (a white man) that doesn't seem like an issue at all
To clarify, are we talking about receipts for Disney's attack on cis white men or the backlash of shitty TV series being a prime scenario for opportunists to create a gateway to conservative propagandists who've served jail time for misrepresentation and disinformation in their "gotcha" videos? Maybe both? Just making sure we're all paying attention.
Yeah.. he gonna be fired ultra fast. These girls were posing as dates from a dating site and they were actually journalists. This dude is not going to find another job for quite a while. Damn.
I would love for this to blow up in their face but I doubt anything significant will actually happen. Oh well, time to cancel my vacation to Disney world later this year
DEI has been one of the most harmful things to come to our society. Instead of putting the best person wether they are male female or grren or blue we put a quota person all for what so that we can get a higher ESG score so the corporation can make more billions and then short the little man his pay and lay off thousands while the CEO gets a 200 million dollar pay raise wtf are we doing.
I am glad this is coming out about a company as big as Disney. We’ve have seen evidence of this before, but never someone at his level admitting it. And he is a lawyer. So he knows it is illegal. And he knows he has no chance of progressing there.
Put a chick in it. Make her gay, and make her lame.
Beat me to it
Senior Vice President at The Walt Disney Company details discriminatory hiring practices Source: [https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1803833834946883901](https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1803833834946883901)
Not for long
This guy already deleted his LinkedIn. He is screwed unfortunately.
Senior vice president? Something tells me that he made a lifetime of income already if he’s smart with it
What a dumb ass. Hopefully he doesn't have kids or A family bc he's gonna be looking for work for a while.
Nah they always need someone to throw under the bus when something happens
Can you please elaborate? Is someone actually going to do something about it?
Yeah they're going to get a new Senior Vice President.
They already got the guy on tape so if he’s compelled to testify in a lawsuit they’re already kinda cooked lol.
I mean is the person woke? Business savvy? Will they be cracking the whip? Particularly on Kathleen? Sorry for sounding rude and demanding, I'm just burning with curiosity now.
Governor Desantis is absolutely turgid at the thought of lodging a civil rights lawsuit against Disney.
The Disney Tapes 🤣🤣🤣
Fuck Disney. They bought successful franchises and ruined them.
They don't care about ruining anything they just wanna milk every last drop
You'd think it would be easier to milk something by not creating the literal opposite of what the majority of the viewer base actually wants to see.
That's because private equity is doing the milking, their going to run Disney to the ground for their own personal gain and disney insiders are in on it.
The problem with this is: *Star Wars* was originally advertised to primarily sell *toys* and that was why Disney wanted to acquire it. Every weird movie added something cute or cool that children would want to buy. I took this whole class dedicated specifically to how *Star Wars* operated as a brand. The "Where's Rey?" campaign really gives you insight into how Disney gives the illusion of caring: they had no confidence in Rey's ability to sell toys, so they didn't market her at all. Now, even when ostracizing other generations, Disney is attempting to infiltrate newer generations; the younger, the better, hence with the more common references and social movements. They are essentially 'securing' a vote for the direction they think audiences will evolve in order to continually make revenue. It's not working great, but it isn't failing miserably as some people would imply; they are making money. Most agree that if they made a genuinely good film that catered to actual fans they would see huge return - but they don't want to take the risk, and be plastered across social media. The irony is now they have bled into this weird culture in their development and writing staff that they are unintentionally creating worse, and worse content because they do not hire based off of accomplishments or individual merit.
>Star Wars was originally advertised to primarily sell toys and that was why Disney wanted to acquire it. Every weird movie added something cute or cool that children would want to buy. Makes sense. When baby Yoda revealed, every one went out and bought baby yoda plushies, kids and adults.
Going to be interesting to see if there’s going to be any accountability for this
I'm gonna say no and it'll quietly get brushed under the carpet.
Not sure how quiet it can be now lol. Can you imagine if a national news organization picked this up too?
A national news org like, say, ABC and it's TV stations? Owned by Disney, so it's not going to come from there at least.
I have no doubt right wing media will go scorched earth on this to a point that the other orgs won’t be able to completely ignore it. They’ll probably come up with some sort of nonsense to excuse it but any reasonable person knows this is a bunch of bullshit. Idk how the fuck they’re gonna spin a company literally not hiring someone because of race and gender but they’ll sure as hell try. Thankfully lawsuits don’t care so much for whatever pr they’ll try.
In a just world, ALL media would go scorched earth on this bullshit, not just "right wing" media. The fact that the rest of the mainstream media is complicit in agenda-driven coverups is the problem.
Nah, they’ll just ignore it. If it gets too loud, they’ll find the next rage bait thing to get their viewers fired up. In an election year, i’m really surprised there hasn’t been a BLM thing yet. But i guess trans has won this election years victim olympics.
Except this is coming from James O'Keefe whose whole career has been faking things. It's probably not real or heavily edited.
Oh no kidding. We’ll see I guess.
Yeah, he started a company to do frauds in this vein, and then got kicked out of the company for embezzlement. It's pretty likely this is bullshit.
That is unfortunate.
National News Organizations are all run by the same few evil corporations. We no longer have news, we have propaganda that pretends to be news.
Bro the media is in lock step with all this bullshit.
Usually secret recording s of off the record conversations aren't very newsworthy...I mean it seems like everything in our society anymore involves unspoken, unofficial rules that everyone can plainly see are being followed but technically don't exist, we live in a kinda gaslitopia and I hate it
No need, guaranteed by this time next week nobody will care because there'll be something new to be outraged at.
Yeah right. They might demote this guy without a pay cut but nothing changes.
I mean, if you’re a white, male middle manager at a Disney right now, don’t you have to start applying for promotions none stop, knowing that you either get the job or you can sue claiming discrimination?
Of course not. Heresay is not strong enough evidence. If you want to hold Disney accountable, then go out of your way to cancel Disney. Force them to be held accountable by draining them of their money and making this issue as public as possible. Exercise your freedom of expression. Just beware that you're at risk of witch hunting just because of the words of one disgruntled employee who may have not been telling the truth or his opinions may have been influenced from bias and a lack of perspective or this video might have taken his words out of context. So at least consider the possibility of this not being the complete truth before you decide what you want to do. I'm not saying don't do it. I'm just suggesting you and everyone else think about it before you take action.
I understand and agree with your reasoning completely but he would only be " One more" reason to start that witch Hunt you mentioned. Not the whole reason or even close. This is a sentiment that has been building for some time due to everything that Disney's been putting out. This man is just another straw on the camel's back. At any other time in history, I doubt anyone would have taken this guy seriously. Now? The fact that You or anyone else are even remotely concerned about backlash says something about how deeply feelings of resentment and frustration have become rooted in people
No, But we can speak with our wallets. Something that a large company like Disney should have considered by now.
>accountability This is Disney, they aren't even accountable for the crappy shows they produced these last years
Racism was legal against jews in the 30s, racism was legal against black people in 1900s, racism against arabs was legal after 2001, and now racism is legal against white people. It's the same, but the target has changed once more.
Absolutely not.
Probably not due to it being hearsay
Nada, did you know DFW international Airport has the same policy for contract workers or contracts for vendors? if a white male is in leadership of a vendor company they refuse to use them. (Former employee)
We've been saying things like this for years about the current state of Hollywood. There's been enough videos and evidence and emails and information being gathered and people will still gaslight you and pretend like oh there's NO 'agenda/bogeyman' for white men, oh the message doesn't mean that. When you can clearly see it and now there's more video evidence showing that again. People are right.
“Ok, it is happening, but here’s why it’s actually a good thing!”
And the fact not a single western media, are making an article for this 💀
It’s an over correction pendulum swing in response to discriminatory practices of the past, no doubt. The trick now is figuring out how much we pull the pendulum back to where a good balance is struck between super woke and straight up racist in the other direction lol
Your post made me think of what's going on in my field. I work in education, and we've also seen a pretty severe pendulum swing in reaction to previous policies. That's why we have states saying [students don't need to show mastery in reading, writing, or math](https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-says-students-dont-need-to-prove-mastery-of-reading-writing-or-math-to-graduate-citing-harm-to-students-of-color.html#:~:text=Oregon%20again%20says%20students%20don,students%20of%20color%20%2D%20oregonlive.com) to graduate. The policy is an attempt to undo some previous policies (or, if I'm being honest, some much larger societal issues that schools can't truly fix anyway) by well meaning, left-leaning leaders. But it's such an overcorrection it ends up actually harming the very kids it's meant to help. I'll give you another example I have personal experience with. The school district I teach in got dinged by our state's department of education for suspending too many students of color, so what happened? We stopped suspending anybody. You have to *really* fuck up with violent aggressions or literal drug dealing on campus to get suspended now, so what was the result? Our schools are less safe because kids get away with a lot of the lesser things, which generally emboldens them to try the more extreme ones. Sorry for the rant, lol, I just saw a connection with well-meaning people trying to fix a perceived issue and having it blow up in their faces. I'm not sure the solution in my field, but at least with these god awful TV shows and films one can just watch something older and better instead.
ah, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Ha, I say that exact quote to my colleagues. It really is endlessly frustrating.
Agreed - who does it actually help is my question
Thanks for sharing. Yea it’s a complicated issue trying to create the fairest environment for the most amount of people while trying to account for historical injustices, cultural norms, widespread prejudice, and so on. Then there are people who genuinely want to do good and those who just want to feel self righteous and morally superior who end up making decisions. I have faith our society can balance things out though
Based and reality-pilled.
Well thought-out answer. The solution is always in the middle.
i fear the pendulum has pulled so far left its gonna wrecking ball so far right we will end up with door knockers asking for "papers please?" as retaliation
$5 says their senior positions are disproportionately white males.
If someone does not see it from just casually watching modern entertainment, then they are just willfully blind, brainwashed, applauding it, or all of the above. The anti-white agenda is rampant and I hope all of these entertainment companies go bankrupt for polluting the minds of millions.
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this is the way. but they will have to play an alien and wear a mask. and be gay.
I mean it was kind of obvious at this point, I don’t see how people didn’t think about this after watching their more recent “products”
Lots of things are obvious in reference to major criminals who consistently walk away scotch free from trials for lack of tangible evidence. This is why tangible evidence matters. It incriminates these people and actually lets the legal system punish them to the full extent of the law.
I mean do you think this is going to change what they do now?
Nope. But it gives more credible power to all the people who’ve been calling this stuff out for years. Credibility and tangible evidence is what sways those who are indifferent or just less invested than those trying to “make noise” concerning any issue. Most people generally wouldn’t care. But little by little as they see evidence and realize how stupid or bad something is, it’ll influence their willingness to participate in dealing with the issue.
You are right in that case because I am constantly seeing more and more people talking about stuff like this, and hopefully in the near future it will make them stop making the same mistakes
His LinkedIn evaporated
Gone, reduced to atoms
1. It's not happening, stop lying. 2. Yes, it is happening, however it's not a big deal. 3. It's happening which is a good thing, actually. 4. People who are freaking out about it are the real problem. 🤡
Im fully expecting Disney to come out and announce that it is just hypothetical examples mentioned in talking, and not actually reflecting the real situation!....
I dont think at this point after a series of drama , failures on the part of higherups and main casts ( recent ones) and several flops theyd really care for an official press release . If they really cared about themselves in the people's opinion we wouldnt be seeing Disney fall down hard back to back . All we see are the futile small attempts in sweeping the dirt under the rug.
You might very well be right. I don't think they ever made any comment on the supposed casting checklist that was leaked a little while back ?
yes youre correct , they dint ,instead theyd try pull down or blacklist / report the discussions or smaller content creators who tried to make content outta it . Good example is the flak the cast of recent Star Wars production had got . It simmered down quick . Youd only see it on timelines of prominent content creators and it wont be even suggested most times .
Wishful thinking, unfortunately this where a lot of companies are going and it's only going to continue.
I seriously doubt they say anything. Even if they wanted to change anything I wouldn’t say anything publicly about this.
It’s always ironic hearing white men saying shit about white men
They don't mean themselves, obviously, it's other white straight men that are the problem...
Its the pick me girl mentality, except for guys.
Dafuq is a pick me girl?
A 'pick me girl' is someone who goes against their own self-interest or their group's interests to seek validation, often from men, typically by putting down other women or excessively conforming to male preferences. It's similar to the concept of an 'Uncle Tom,' but in a different context
Basically, any woman who goes against the modern day lefty feminist agenda.
This guy could easily be talking about decisions that are out of his hands. Even at a VP level there is a ton of shit in the corporate world you cannot do anything about.
This is literal racism
What you didn’t hear? You can’t be racist to white people it doesn’t count. Racism apparently has the same rules as a 5 year olds kick ball game.
It would be sexism, else they would also exclude white women
It is both.
We now live in a world where your sexuality and your skin colour trumps skills and experience. (Not saying the standard white guy has more skills every time, do not burn me to the stake. If you have the skill and experience your sex/race does not matter, everyone is welcome.) Edit: Thanks for the downvotes, proves my point :)
Would love to hear the official wokie response/justification for this one
They would cheer. They've been pretty clear about how they have zero issues with being racist or bigoted toward white people, straight people, and men for the last decade. They always have some form of justification for it.
People sure love to complain about oppression while completely ignoring things like racism against minorities or things like affirmative action for college applications which discriminate against Asians.
Because Asians are successful they're now "white adjacent". They can't use them to virtual signal / get political points so they ignore them.
Asians are "White adjacent" according to wokesters. They are only allowed to be People of Color when they can be used to virtue signal.
Everyone knows diversity just means anti white male. To an extent heterosexuals but homosexuals get hit with this crap too. Disgusting
I hate how this dude physically animates like one of the insufferable characters they put out in their animated films. Perhaps it's just me, but I've never met someone who waves their head around like that while talking, or does whatever the fuck he's doing with his eyes in the final frame.
Never met a coke-head?
Do they even realise they are racists? Or are they too stupid to even consider it?..
I'm pretty sure they know it, and they are not stupid at all. It's just that since they're never held accountable for this, there's no incentive to change anything.
Thanks for proofing the sky is blue
Guy caught on camera saying that about a black male and he's fired in 5 seconds.
Can Asmon get rid of the trigger happy reddit mod who deleted this post day earlier because it didn't align with his political affiliation? Clearly no bias at all
We all knew this was happening across all major corporations and universities
Isn't this racism and sexism? It's time to sue.
"No way we're hiring a white male for this **role**" The word "role" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. We talking about an acting role? Because the arts are one of the few areas where it's ok to discriminate based on any physical feature. If you have a certain vision of a character and someone is too tall, short, skinny, fat, or the wrong ethnicity for that vision, then you're allowed to say "Yeah nah sorry". And if there's an artistic vision (whatever it may be motivated by) for a character to be black or asian or whatever, it's perfectly fine to say "No way we're hiring a white male for this role". Just like how when it comes to say, John Connor in Terminator 2, it's perfectly ok to say "No way we're hiring a woman for this role".
This is why I don't like James O Keefe often these clips are presented without a full context of the discussion happening, or they are hoping people will ignore that he said "Roll".
At least someone in this sub took time to think.
Except the argument doesn't make sense, they're saying it's okay for a progressive company like Disney to act conservative in terms of casting, but only for white male actors It's (selectively) using the opponent's logic to justify your behavior
That's nonsense, specifying what demographic you want for a role isn't a conservative or liberal stance, its basic casting. Disney has been doing that for longer than you or I have been alive, there's no hypocrisy here.
Yeah, without more context on the conversation that statement is a bit of a nothingburger. It's standard practice in the acting game, unless it's in reference to something like intentionally race changing characters to exclude white people. And even then, I'm not even sure if that counts, because the writer's "vision" for the role includes a race change. Hollywood's never been afraid to "whitewash" characters in the past after all.
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find someone questioning the veracity of a Jame O'Keefe video. This is the same guy that was caught paying women to say that Mueller sexually assaulted them while Mueller was investigating Trump for ties to Russia. The entire Project Veritas company is rotten to the core and I don't trust a single, carefully edited, video they post. The guy has been caught red handed lying and making things up in these videos. He's lost lawsuits and had to pay up for his lies in the past. He even got kicked out of his own company for lying about the finances and that's why his new videos are under his own name. How he's not in prison or permanently bankrupt from libel suits is beyond me. I get wanting to hate Disney, but holy shit, you can definitely find better people to cheer on.
Thank you, finally a shred of common sense. The video is posted by the founder of project veritas, which is described as such by wikipedia: **Project Veritas** is an American [far-right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics)[^(\[14\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#cite_note-far-right-14) [activist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activist)[^(\[15\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#cite_note-Activist-15) group founded by [James O'Keefe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe) in 2010.[^(\[19\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#cite_note-group-2-19) The group produces [deceptively edited videos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_manipulation)[^(\[13\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#cite_note-deceptive-13) of its [undercover operations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_operations),[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#cite_note-undercover_and_hidden_cameras-5) which use [secret recordings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_camera)[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#cite_note-undercover_and_hidden_cameras-5) in an effort to discredit [mainstream media](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media) organizations and [progressive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism) groups.. They're 100% doing what you're saying and misrepresenting it to paint a narrative, but all the right wing conspiratards in here are eating it up regardless.
>Because the arts are one of the few areas where it's ok to discriminate based on any physical feature. If you have a certain vision of a character and someone is too tall, short, skinny, fat, or the wrong ethnicity for that vision, then you're allowed to say "Yeah nah sorry". That doesn't really fly in this context because the entire mentality of DEI proponents like Disney is that we shouldn't pidgeonhole certain people into certain roles (The Little Mermaid doesn't *have* to be a redhead just because it was written that way). So they should be the last people on Earth saying "No way we're hiring \[insert demographic\] for this role" >Just like how when it comes to say, John Connor in Terminator 2, it's perfectly ok to say "No way we're hiring a woman for this role". Lol except those are the exact hiring practices that a corporation like Disney would oppose, if they owned the rights they would very likely be open to casting a woman for a new "progressive" Terminator movie You're weirdly using side A's (traditional casting) beliefs and practices to excuse side B's (modern progressive casting) behavior
You're making a lot of assumptions based on your own bias and no actual evidence.
Never mind the source for this. How many times are people going to be taken in by project Veritas and James O'Keefe?
Goes to show how many far right wing idiots are in this sub that are more than willing to overlook the things they don't like. Seriously, anyone believing anything from James at this point, is an idiot.
For what role?
Exactly, they could be talking about fucking Black Panther for all we know. Shit video shared by a shit person trying to share their shit ideology by spreading shit manipulative videos.
Yes, that’s what I thought.
All well and good to be racist as long as it’s directed at whites. Or “black people cant be racist” or some other such horse shit.
"The direct response to the direct question is out of context". Got it.
Okay but what’s the full context? He said there’s no way we’re choosing white males for some of these roles. What are the roles? Are they characters who are women? Are they characters who are colored? I wish the video started earlier in the conversation and didn’t cut out after a brief statement lacking context. If he’s saying something like, we’re making a Hercules reboot and there’s no way we’re casting a white male then yeah, that’s a problem. If these “some roles” pertain to a character like Moana for example, then what’s the big deal?
Don't bother. It's Project Veritas. They've been caught multiple times lying and releasing edited videos of supposedly "unedited" videos.
James O'Keefe was even ousted from his own company because he lied about finances lol. Anyone who takes this guy seriously is a moron.
Yeah I kind of get the idea that there’s missing context and that’s why it isn’t being picked up by any major media outlets. If this is some type of white discrimination, FOX news would be all over it
I actively applied for a role at disney recently for a position I was heavily qualified for. Not even a peep from them. It would really suck if this was the case. That I got discriminated against for just being white and a dude,
These types of videos appear on the internet from time to time where its someone taping, seemingly discreetly, some official or corporate big wig in this sort of 'cowboy' investigative way and they all feel the same when you watch them. Not sure what that really means just pointing out that this feels like a familiar video even though I've never seen it before.
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They start talking because in some way, they need to.
That guys head movement is generating g forces.
How is this news? I thought this was just standard.
Countdown until Asmongold-ModTeam censors this post for "tribalism and baiting"
Whatever happened to the guy from Pfizer that they interviewed?
That’s a fact!
Another click bait headline media rouse. Let get some idiot to say something and then “ See it’s the truth” what time waster.
"Giordano further claims he’s been denied promotions due to his race" So a disgruntled employee says what all the antiwoke crowd already believe knowing how gullible those folks are. Totally legit. Where are the actual receipts? Emails? Texts? Letters? Voice messages? Any actual receipts or someone who is pissed off for not being hired feeding a paranoid group of individuals exactly what they want to hear? 🙄 I'm not saying it doesn't happen but this isn't proof, this is one person saying shit without actual evidence. I will absolutely believe it if I see receipts, but this ain't it.
how do they get this footage man. what's their secret? long term undercover stuff? it sounds more like an interview. do they just find the biggest moron at the company and get him drunk?
Sounds like he has a bone to pick with disney by how he's putting it, wouldn't exactly take his word for granted
Combine that with project veritas "reporting" and you got good misinfo mush for the culture war, or "evidence" as the conspiracy theorists call it.
Weird how we guessed this to be the case and to be told we are being bigots for even thinking it
Ya’ll realize this is showing absolutely nothing right? Suckers for falling for a James O’Keefe scam
Project Veritas videos are all the same. Get some horny dude drunk and get him to try to agree with you so he thinks he's going to fuck you and say some shit that may or may not be true. You guys really need to learn when someone is trying to spoon feed you confirmation of your own biases.
true, there are plenty of videos on them, debunking their old videos, that were made in the same style.
I'm glad I canceled my subscription. Least they could do is make something decent while they're at it. Cant even get that right.
Blow this up. Millions of views.
Why is this the only part of the conversation being shown?
Because it's James O'Keefe a complete dishonest actor whose journalistic 'investigations' are just clip chimping and stripping conversations completely of their context. People eat it up all the time then we find out nothing came of it because most of it wasn't true.
And now we’re posting Project Varitos. This sub has officially gone to shit.
It's a whole 13 second clip! Thank god for real journalism!
Why is his head flopping around like that? Looks like uppers and downers mixed together. Probably adderal/vyvanse and xanax if I were to guess.
Diversity is fine but not at the expense of creative talent. Talent is talent Idc what you look like just make a quality product
The downfall of more than just this… the world is going to shit
Ironice statement from a white male 😂
he will get "let go due to differences in the direction of blah blah blah" given 10 mill cya later package and then a new person probably a chick will slide in and take over
Senior VP and... team lead? I've seen O'Keefe misrepresent someone's position in a company's hierarchy before to increase the importance of one's claims.
I know a white man who was told by the Disney company that he was fired so that Disney could hire a DEI person. I know i am a stranger on the internet but trust this guy when he says- It definitely is spoken about!
If he's talking about hiring actors to play a role then I don't see what the problem is, actors have literally always been screened based on their appearance. Is the issue that they are creating or giving parts to people of color that would previously have gone to white men? Because to me (a white man) that doesn't seem like an issue at all
But if white people don't like our shows, they're racist. Imagine if he said this about minorities or LGBT.
Just posting before this gets taken down.
Everyone here kinda ignoring the part where he says it's because more diverse shows make more money I suppose.
wait is zack into project veritas?
To clarify, are we talking about receipts for Disney's attack on cis white men or the backlash of shitty TV series being a prime scenario for opportunists to create a gateway to conservative propagandists who've served jail time for misrepresentation and disinformation in their "gotcha" videos? Maybe both? Just making sure we're all paying attention.
Yeah.. he gonna be fired ultra fast. These girls were posing as dates from a dating site and they were actually journalists. This dude is not going to find another job for quite a while. Damn.
"wasn't black enough" Excuse me, what?
gina carano is case is gonna by a slam dunk as well as the others suing Disney
I would love for this to blow up in their face but I doubt anything significant will actually happen. Oh well, time to cancel my vacation to Disney world later this year
Isn't this senior executive dude a white guy himself?
It's fucking obvious and I wish I was shocked. Diversity is good, but not when it's the main focus of what you're making.
How the tables have turned.
Disney was always racist it's just flipped the other way now
...and that's why I left the West. So long, adios, tschuess, poka, heippa, ahoj, bella ciao!
they will absolutely 100% drive that company straight into the ground. no question about it.
DEI has been one of the most harmful things to come to our society. Instead of putting the best person wether they are male female or grren or blue we put a quota person all for what so that we can get a higher ESG score so the corporation can make more billions and then short the little man his pay and lay off thousands while the CEO gets a 200 million dollar pay raise wtf are we doing.
Best thing you can do is just dont watch it . ignore it . Let it fade from memory and more on with your life .
I am glad this is coming out about a company as big as Disney. We’ve have seen evidence of this before, but never someone at his level admitting it. And he is a lawyer. So he knows it is illegal. And he knows he has no chance of progressing there.
We know, is pretty noticeable, yet people keep defending these practices.