So yeah, internal diversity training material for mouse employees got leaked. Take a shot whenever you read vague newspeak.

My favorites in the "good" column are "holding contradictory thought and feeling simultaneously" and "take time to weave into the fabric of the organisation a critical mass of equity-oriented people in leadership and on staff at large"

My parody sensors are seriously confused at this stuff.

@moth_ball the real enemies in the culture war are the free market/corporations

any other threat lacks the capital and organization necessary to inflict major change. it's the free market which has widely vanguarded the agendas of the western neo-left (bc it benefits capital).

@kino @moth_ball It's never been popular, diversity stifles business competitiveness as much as anything, and they have nothing to gain by becoming political and cutting off a portion of consumers.

They're a big part of the problem but it has never benefited them. What is Disney gaining from this? It isn't even a political stunt, it's internal.

@applejack @kino Probably something to do with preventing them from making demands for themselves or complaining about work conditions. When your thoughts are occupied by walking on eggshells, there's no time to consider your rights. Salaries are a big part of overhead, so can't have the workers organizing. Similiar shit is going on at Amazon.

@moth_ball @kino They literally talk about collective action and struggles as the forefront issue

@applejack @kino But it's hard to believe that a corporation would really give a shit about social issues, so there's probably some ulterior motive apart from the public communication.

@moth_ball @applejack @kino i'm sure that there's a simple element of profit seeking that gets pushed through this in various ways, but at the same time the upper echelons of all these corps are staffed by uni people, most of whom have probably genuinely swallowed a lot of these ideas, so it's probably a very complicated and murky mix of people who are just taking the advatage, and probably a majority of just "true believers".

@fbi @kino @moth_ball This happens even with non-profits. If it's from unis, that just delays the problem. Why are the unis like that? And why did every corp, NGO, and gov welcome them in?

@applejack @fbi @kino Probably to use diversity as a way to deflect genuine criticism. But it would be interesting to see how all of this got started. It's probably a mix of things accelerated by forward momentum.

@moth_ball @fbi @kino There has been deliberate social engineering for decades on behalf of giant [N]GOs and rich individuals. Social movement after social movement driven not by people but by media and big bodies pushing things in the current direction, then it peaked in mid the 2010s somehow for some reason

There's a big game that's much larger than just Disney acting in their own benefit.