America First Legal Files Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against Disney for Discrimination
https://wdwnt.com/2024/02/america-first-legal-civil-rights-disney/
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The complaint focuses on Disney’s “
Reimagine Tomorrow” diversity initiative, which AFL claims “strongly suggests that race, color, religion, sex, or national origin are often the only motivating factor in Disney’s hiring, training, and promotion decisions,” and that Disney is “intentionally discriminating against white American men, Christians, and Jews simply because of their race, sex, religion, and citizenship.”
The press release calls out Disney’s General Entertainment Content Inclusion Standards, which explains that 50 percent or more of on-screen representation, creative leadership, and below-the-line employees must be filled by members of underrepresented groups, with opportunities for industry access and career development also available for those individuals.
Elon Musk recently took to X to call these standards
“mandatory racism and sexism.”
AFL claims that Disney’s self-reported workplace demographic data “shows that it is aggressively engaged in illegal race- and sex-based workforce balancing.” The nonprofit also makes mention of Disney’s “illegal” grant program which provides $25,000 to “underrepresented directors,” specifically to “women, AAPI, Black, Indigenous/Native, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, disability-identifying, and religiously marginalized individuals.”