Elon Musk’s Disney meltdown is — as these things go — continuing apace. The billionaire is now claiming that the media conglomerate has “institutionalized racism” at its heart.
The previous week has been a pretty huge one for Musk’s rage against the Mouse House, which began last fall when Disney pulled ads from X-formerly-Twitter (alongside a host of other businesses) over its “surging levels of bigotry” often boosted and co-signed by its new owner.
After announcing plans to foot the legal bills for fired “Mandalorian” actor Gina Carano — dismissed from the “Star Wars” spinoff for alleged “anti-Semitic and transphobic” posts online — he then suggested he might try to straight up buy Disney. Musk then took to his social network to keep trashing the entertainment giant.
In the new post, the world’s richest man claimed that an “anonymous source” sent him Disney’s diversity and inclusion standards. The screenshot he shared shows a list of guidelines stipulating that the company’s programming include more “underrepresented groups”, that per the South African tycoon’s assessment, it represents “mandatory, institutionalized racism and sexism”.
An anonymous source just sent me this from Disney. It is mandatory, institutionalized racism and sexism! pic.twitter.com/npMy8YfA1j
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2024
“No wonder most of their content produced over the past several years has sucked,” he added later in his Twitter thread. “Just trying to navigate the DEI minefield is going to crush the creative process!”
Musk’s “DEI Gestapo” thread does include screenshots of purported Disney documents that expound on the guidelines in the initial standards page, suggesting that he did get something leaked to him.
