• Disney shareholders rejected anti-DEI proposal on Thursday.
  • A conservative think tank proposed that Disney stop participating in the Corporate Equality Index.
  • Shareholders for Apple and Costco previously rejected similar proposals.
  • jj4211@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    anti-DEI is pretty much code for “only white straight cisgendered males welcome”. Whatever criticisms may make sense against select DEI initiatives, the anti-DEI move by the government basically involved erasing all acknowledgement of any minority or woman ever being honored for accomplishments, no matter how obviously well earned the honor was.

    On a global perspective, the American flavor of “anti-DEI” panders to a relatively small group of folks at the expense of offending the vast majority of the world’s population.

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      19 hours ago

      Ok, but how does this like vibe with a country like China, which demands that Disney and other western media companies censor LGBT things all the time?

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      What does DEI mean in respect to Disney, does it just mean changing existing characters to their non-white equivalent?