A still from an early Disney animated film Steamboat Willie. The FCC has announced an investigation into Disney’s DEI programs. (Photo via Wikimedia)
With the fog of war; the wholesale attack on DEI, including USAID, the Department of Education and other federal agencies; the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) until just recently had escaped the attention of Trump’s baleful net. But it was only a matter of time before it too would be assailed and feel the threat of obliteration.
On Friday, Brendan Carr, chairman of FCC, announced an investigation into Disney’s programs of diversity, equity and inclusion with an aim toward halting them. In a letter to Robert A. Iger, the CEO of Disney, Carr said that Disney’s promotion of race-based affinity groups seemed to violate equal employment opportunity programs, the very thing it was devised to do. “I want to ensure that Disney ends any and all discriminator initiatives in substance, not just name,” Carr declared in the letter. “For another, I want to determine whether Disney’s actions — whether ongoing or recently ended — complied at all times with applicable F.C.C. regulations.”
In response to the intention to halt their DEI efforts, a Disney spokesperson said the company was reviewing the F.C.C.’s letter. “We look forward to engaging with the commission to answer its questions.”
Central to these allegations for Carr is Disney’s Reimagine Tomorrow initiative that is accused of being a “mechanism for advancing its DEI mission.” What remains in question is the extent to which Disney has lived up to its promise of assuring that at least fifty percent of regular and recurring characters must be drawn from “underrepresented groups.”
Carr’s main point of contention, and this seems readily apparent, is that Disney hasn’t gone far enough in its capitulation to Trump’s agenda of kowtowing to Big Brother. Conceivably, that’s of no real concern to Carr and his minions, and their plan to totally make the private company bend to the demands promulgated by Trump.
What essentially is at play here is a weaponized government marching inexorably against companies they abhor, and the new power of FCC has less to do with legal discrimination than it is about chastising Disney for its attempts to balance hiring practices.
Similar to all the other measures whether in health, education, or international development, Americans must not be hoodwinked and bamboozled by Trump and his cohort’s propaganda of correcting past evils. Again, we remind our readers of war merchants talking about peace and balancing a budget while they stuff their pockets with the bounty from tariffs, tax cuts, and selling the public with a bill of goods. In short, no matter where we turn, an Orwellian universe confronts us. Trump and his band of misfits are doing all they can to impose a world on us in which ignorance is strength.
Reprinted from the NY Amsterdam News
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