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
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
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”
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
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
Executives and writers were drectly mentioned
I just read one of the linked articles. It didn't say this.
By who?
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.
They were looking for someone to play Martin Luther King.
I knew they were leaving out context, but is that seriously what it is? Jfc, they take anything for the clickbait.
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."
I don't see any punctuation in that quote, so I'd bet there's a lot of context missing
"... To play Frozone"
Who would want to work at Disney tbh
Considering they employ 200,000 people, I’d say quite a lot.
"... To play Moana"
"...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?
