Thread by @America1stLegal

/1🚨BREAKING — Following the disclosure of damning internal company documents, AFL has filed a formal EEOC complaint against @Disney alleging pervasive illegal discrimination based on race and sex.

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/2 The law prohibits Disney from using race, color, religion, sex, or national origin merely as a motivating factor for hiring, training, or promotions.

/3 But a document on Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow” website 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 the company is intentionally discriminating against white American men, Christians, and Jews simply because of their race, sex, religion, and citizenship. reimaginetomorrow.disney.com

/4 All Disney General Entertainment productions are required to comply with Disney’s DEI “Inclusion Standards.”

Some of the standards explicitly provide that fifty percent of the following jobs must be filled by members of “Underrepresented Groups.”

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/5 These jobs include:

✔️Regular and recurring actors and characters in Disney content
✔️Producers and writing staff
✔️Overall crew or project staff
✔️Line producers and/or production department heads – including, for example, the director of photography, composer, costume designer, editor, production designer, and music supervisor

/6 Productions can also comply with the inclusion standards by promoting members of Underrepresented Groups, creating jobs “to facilitate union eligibility for members of Underrepresented Groups,” and facilitating a “[s]ubstantial year-over-year increase in members of Underrepresented Groups as directors and in writing staff.”

/7 In addition, a leaked FAQ document on Disney’s “Inclusion Standards” describes the company’s broader plan “to increase training and development opportunities for members of underrepresented groups” in a racially exclusionary manner.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1755497805337026919

/8 Disney admits that an example of an “inclusive hiring and employment practice” is “improving access to training and development opportunities for members of underrepresented groups.”

/9 Disney’s self-reported workforce demographic data shows that it is aggressively engaged in illegal race- and sex-based workforce balancing, with immutable characteristics apparently serving as a determinative factor in at least some of its employment and contracting practices. For example…

/10 From FY 2020 to FY 2021, the percentage of Disney directors identified by Disney as “people of color” grew by 6%

/11 From FY 2020 to FY 2021, the percentage of individuals identified by Disney as “people of color” and female “series regulars/leads” increased by 4% and 1%, respectively.

/12 From FY 2020 to FY 2021, the percentage of writers identified by Disney as “people of color” also grew by 3%

/13 Interestingly, Disney’s aggregate workforce data shows that between FY 2021 and FY 2022, the percentage of individuals identified by Disney as “white” dropped by 3.6% and as “black” by 0.5%

/14 The percentage of individuals identified by Disney as “Hispanic” increased by nearly 1%

/15 However, the largest increase noted is for a category Disney labeled “not disclosed,” which grew by 3.2% percent during the relevant time.

Because Disney is not transparent, knowing precisely what the aggregated data means is impossible.

/16 For example, it is possible that some individuals who formerly were identified as white or black are now classified as “not disclosed.” Nevertheless, the data seem to support Disney’s claims that race, color, religion, sex, and/or national origin are each a motivating factor in the company’s employment practices.

/17 Finally, Disney maintains an illegal grant program that funnels $25,000 to “Underrepresented Directors.” The program unlawfully only awards grants to “women, AAPI, Black, Indigenous/Native, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, disability-identifying, and religiously marginalized individuals.”

/18 America First Legal is unrelenting in its fight to stop race and sex illegal discrimination.

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