The new segregation/Disney goes woke/"Racial affinity" groups?

[Captain Crimson]

Sorry if this is the wrong section, but since it is news, I figured it may go here. Apologies if that isn't the case.

So it seems we have some news from the House of Mouse that they're demanding their white employees sign off on "white privilege" checklists while putting its POC employees into "racial affinity" groups. This, to me, seems like the new segregation, dividing POC and white people. Of course, anything can be faked online and you shouldn't trust whistleblowers without a modicum of caution, for it all may turn out to be staged.

However, to me, this seems consistent to Disney's constant, ruthless, cynical maneuvering to corporate tyranny. They don't pay Mr. Dean Foster and who knows who many other authors their royalties, they film next to literal concentration camps, and now they're returning to segregation, all capital-D democrats. It puts me in mind to that old quote. "The new fascists will call themselves anti-fascists."

I mean, maybe it's just me, a lily-white guy, but dividing Latinos and Latinas into the "Hola" group and the black employees into the "Wakanda" group seems just a bit racist to me, don't you think? Going purely off the group names, OFC. And I do worry for when this is made mandatory, and the pushback this is gonna have on white employees who aren't really bigots, they just disagree with their interpretation here, because it seems custom-made to open them up to accusations of bigotry and blackballing.

The link is right here.

https://www.city-journal.org/racial-politics-at-disney

Personally, it's tempting me to just pirate all they make. For reading the new EU, head to libraries or purchase it secondhand. For their movies, wait till it comes to VOD or streaming. Or, buy a ticket to another movie and sneak into theirs. You're never gonna completely escape the grasp of all that Disney owns, but you can at least try to put a dent in their profit margins. Which is what I think I want to do from now on, barring new SWL, of course.

[clearspira]

This sounds like garbage to me tbh, the evidence being as you say, the notion that Disney would use the term ''Wakanda'' or ''Hola'' as official terms for its employees as opposed to literally calling it ''Group African American'' or something.

[Captain Crimson]

Yeah, and as I said, beware any online "source." It could all be faked. But you never know, there has been the occasional truth here and there. And since, so far as I've heard, Disney makes its employees sign NDAs, it makes sense how they could get away with this.

[Captain Crimson]

The tweet from Mr. Chris F. Rufo sure makes it seem like this is a real thing going on.

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/statu ... 4929731585







If this is real, I don't see how one can label this as anything but segregation. Why not intermix between the groups? You can have black people and Asians working in the Latino/Latina group, and vice versa. And even white people, yes! Shocking to hear, that white people can have empathy this way, yes.

[clearspira]

If it is real then it won't stay secret for long.

[Rocketboy1313]

Look, all of this seems like weird bullshit and the fact that you thought to share it instead of waiting for confirmation of some kind by a reputable source is just shockingly boneheaded.

But all of that aside, this:

It puts me in mind to that old quote. "The new fascists will call themselves anti-fascists."

That is not an old quote. That is just bullshit right wingers put on a picture of Winston Churchill so that people who don't critically think about those kinds of things would share it because they don't know what the "argument from authority" fallacy is.

"No, Greg Abbott, Winston Churchill never said that about antifa"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ret ... ut-antifa/

"Did Winston Churchill Say ‘The Fascists of the Future Will Call Themselves Anti-Fascists?’"
FALSE
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fasci ... sts-quote/

[Captain Crimson]

Because it is not so outside the realm of realism that Disney may try something like this, yet I had said it is equally possible that it could be false. How often in recent years have we heard about leaks that wound up being 100% real?

Maybe it's not a quote from a real historical figure, but it might as well hold the same truth, given how the DNC and GOP harp on fascism nonstop from the other side when it is less their tribal hate for the other and more our own institutional rot festering before the whole planet. It's why so many people, reds and blues, are looking for an alternative. Our system will inevitably lead to fascism, right? Regardless of conservatives or liberals.

I gotta admit, I don't expect Mr. Sanders to run in 2024, and yet if he does and somehow wins the primaries, I may be tempted to vote for him. Though I also don't expect him to survive long in the white house, so if he did, the same criticisms for Mr. Biden now would apply to him.

[Thebestoftherest]

Because it is not so outside the realm of realism that Disney may try something like this, yet I had said it is equally possible that it could be false. How often in recent years have we heard about leaks that wound up being 100% real?

Maybe it's not a quote from a real historical figure, but it might as well hold the same truth, given how the DNC and GOP harp on fascism nonstop from the other side when it is less their tribal hate for the other and more our own institutional rot festering before the whole planet. It's why so many people, reds and blues, are looking for an alternative. Our system will inevitably lead to fascism, right? Regardless of conservatives or liberals.

I gotta admit, I don't expect Mr. Sanders to run in 2024, and yet if he does and somehow wins the primaries, I may be tempted to vote for him. Though I also don't expect him to survive long in the white house, so if he did, the same criticisms for Mr. Biden now would apply to him.

I be surprised if Mr. Sanders is still alive by them.

[McAvoy]

Sanders will be 83 by the time of the 2024 election and even if he is elected we are talking about him being 87 by the time 2028 election comes up.

Biden will be about 81-82 by the 2024 election. I have said this before but Biden is just a 'body' to get Trump out of office. 2024 election hopefully will be a reset and I do hope Biden decides not to run again.

Trump will be 78. But his health is suspect just as Biden's is now and Sanders.

Let's leave the Boomers out of the election and start electing at least the Gen X crowd.