Thread by @America1stLegal

/1🚨✨🏰 VICTORY: Disney has eliminated multiple DEI programs AFL specifically targeted.

Here’s exactly what Disney changed.🧵👇

/2 Last week, Disney announced it planned to eliminate numerous DEI programs, including:

➡️ Its DEI website called “Reimagine Tomorrow”

➡️ Incorporating DEI into executives’ compensation

➡️ Mandatory warnings before classic Disney cartoons

AFL called out EACH of these initiatives in complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and letters sent to Disney’s Board of Directors.

/3 DISNEY DEI CHANGES — “REIMAGINE TOMORROW”

Disney has shut down its DEI “Reimagine Tomorrow” website, cited by AFL over 30 times in our letters.

Disney’s recently filed Annual Report for 2024 removed all references to “Reimagine Tomorrow” that were included in its 2023 Annual Report and cited in AFL’s 2024 complaint and letter.

Disney also appears to have abandoned other discriminatory “[e]mployee development programs and fellowships for underrepresented talent.”

/4 After AFL cited “Reimagine Tomorrow” over 30 times across its letters alleging civil rights violations and shareholder concerns, Disney quietly replaced it with a new site — without many of the policies that AFL challenged.

/5 In another now-deleted webpage, Disney described the launch of “Reimagine Tomorrow” as a DEI hub highlighting its commitment “to Amplify Underrepresented Voices” and “affect workplace representation.”

/6 Links to reimaginetomorrow.disney.com now lead to a different website called inclusion.twdc.com. 

The new “Inclusion” page no longer features the most egregious DEI policies highlighted in AFL’s complaints.

/7 Disney’s new website no longer features a prominent statement on its homepage stating the company’s commitment to “amplifying underrepresented voices” and “accurate representation.”

/8 Disney’s old “Reimagine Tomorrow” website featured a link to an “Inclusion Standards” document revealing discriminatory requirements that applied to essentially all Disney-produced content — including ABC Entertainment, National Geographic, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Hulu Originals, and Disney Channel. 

These inclusion standards required discrimination in Disney productions.

/9 In addition, on Disney’s old “Reimagine Tomorrow” webpage, under the heading “People,” the company described its commitment to “ensur[ing] that our workforce reflects the market.” 

Now, the “People” page of the new site describes Disney’s new focus to “reach and attract the best, most talented people…”

/10 Disney’s old “Reimagine Tomorrow” website also allowed visitors to track the company’s progress toward its “Representation” goals in Disney content and its workforce.

The old “Reimagine Tomorrow” website even featured a search function to search based on race, sex, religion, and gender identity. 

This feature is not on the new site, and Disney has, at least publicly, stopped tracking its progress toward its previous representation goals.

/11 DISNEY DEI CHANGES — DEI-BASED BONUSES ELIMINATED

AFL also called out Disney’s use of Diversity and Inclusion in its “Other Performance Factors” for executive compensation, which Axios confirmed is another DEI policy that Disney banished to Neverland.

/12 DISNEY DEI CHANGES — CONTENT WARNINGS ON CARTOONS

Disney will now no longer play mandatory content advisories before classic films like Dumbo and Peter Pan.

AFL highlighted required sensitivity warnings on THESE EXACT FILMS in its 2024 complaint.

/13 To recap: Disney is the latest corporate giant to abandon discriminatory and divisive DEI policies — and AFL’s efforts were instrumental in bringing about this change.

🕚 The clock has struck midnight on Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow” website.

✨ Disney’s Inclusion Standards and diversity-based pay have been banished to a faraway galaxy.

🎥 Children will no longer be required to watch 12-second warnings before watching classic Disney films like Peter Pan and Dumbo.

/14 🪄Even without a magic wand, fairy dust, or an Infinity Gauntlet, AFL will continue to stand up against discrimination in all its forms to restore the rule of law in America.

/15 Read more here:
aflegal.org/victory-disney…