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Disney and ABC hit with FCC investigation over DEI policies

www.cnn.com /2025/03/28/business/dei-disney-abc-fcc-investigation/index.html

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that's a whole lotta 3-letter acronyms in one headline

I can't wait for them to use the argument "We didn't mean to be anti-racist, we just pretended to be to appeal to consumers!"

Sweet looks like we’re right on track for the capitalist re-education programs that make you incomprehensibly racist and bigoted
- Your phone microphone will be listening to make sure you say your daily quota of slurs.
  
  Or your Disney plus account gets temporarily suspended for “hateful activity” because you said “cracker” in your own home
  
  cis, cis, cis, cis, cis, cis, union, cis
- more incomprehensibly racist and bigoted
  
  Edit: repeated a comment further down before reading the whole thread

Disney hit with FCC investigation

over DEI policies

"Disney has now been embroiled in rounds of controversy surrounding its DEI policies.”
who caused the controversies surrounding DEI??

mr disney your fired sir

Curious to see if Disney rolls over for their white supremacy roots or fights for that sweet, sweet representation
- They're about to drop the whole "this video contains representation that was wrong then and it's wrong now" message at the beginning of all their old stuff
  
  Lol I wouldn't put it past them, but that's a lot of ~~wallets~~ er people to alienate.
- Considering that the "Woke" Live action Snow White has flopped pretty hard, I'm guessing they'll try aiming for CHUD audiences next. There just isn't as much money in empty pandering as there used to be.
  Honestly, I can't see the diehard Disney Adult people actually stopping their support for the company, even if they start doing remasters of Little Black Sambo and Song of the South.
  
  Idk, it's not just the wallets but their employees as well. Disney has for many years now, in typical neoliberal fashion, been supportive of their employees' individual struggles in leu(sp?) of financial support. I could see it going both ways, but they've long put up with boycotts and things from the religious right knowing that their employees would work themselves to death for the limited "freedom and support" to live authentically.

They'll require viewing of song of the south next.

In a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger, Carr wrote that he wants “to ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.”
surely they meant to use a different word. like insidious?
also, i'm assuming this investigation is about being noisy and superficially punitive, and not truly interfering with the fundamental access to airwaves and public resources of one of the largest capital formations on earth.
- Today I learned that invidious is a word and it would fit with the message.
  
  I’ll be honest I kinda think that word falls under “if few enough speakers of a language know a word is it really a word in that language?”
  If you said the word invidious to the majority of English speakers they would look at you confused. That sounds like it’s not an English word to me.
- invidious
  I thought it was surely a spellcheck error. It's not.
  “Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” Carr said in an interview with Bloomberg last week.
  
  Yeah, isn't that a pirate site or something?
- thinkin about that Nvidia stock

I wonder how far we are from state mandated media viewing for adults. They'll get the kids with PragerU slop in schools but a major part of their culture war grievance is that their media isn't dominant enough and you can remove the live action Little Mermaid for having a black person but you can't make people watch Lady Ballers instead
- but a major part of their culture war grievance is that their media isn't dominant enough
  It's incredible how much energy is being wasted on this horseshit.
  
  I mean, fascism is all about redirecting class antagonism off the culprit, the ruling class, and ontona scapegoat. Culture war is the easiest way to do that. The nazis did it too. Culture war distracts from the real problems wich have to do with class. The more the contradictions heighten, the more unhinged the culture wars get.
- you can't make people watch Lady Ballers instead
  Who even is this for? The plot synopsis is almost unfollowable and it seems like they try to broach some criticisms of their positions then just smash cut to the issue being resolved.
  Like "oh, he's going through a divorce because his wife thinks he's a biggot, so he becomes even more bigoted then suddenly she comes back because her boyfriend said the nuclear family is important?"

You were nice to 10 black people this month: minus 50 social credit score!

So are they just openly bringing back segregation now or what?

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