I don't know what Disney's thinking and it's not like I'm a fan or anything, but if I was a multi-billion dollar global media powerhouse with more reach than any other single entity, and I was getting my ankles bitten, and my friends rights' taken, by some ridiculous fascist pinhead I would drown them in lawsuits so fast it'd make their pudding cups spin.
Not just one big suit, mind you, I'd bankroll every unfair practices suit my people had and make a point to target Ron's personal businesses. Thousands of suits all churning through Mickey & Co., Because this is straight up no fooling bullshit and if the courts can't figure it out we move on to step two. Step two is outside the legal frameworks.
Disney should get their Imagineers working on a way to just move Disney World somewhere that won’t be under water in a couple decades. Just pick the whole thing up and plop it somewhere better
I have to think that this paragraph is horribly misstated:
DeSantis also has championed Florida’s so-called “Stop WOKE” law, which bars businesses, colleges and K-12 schools from giving training on certain racial concepts, such as the theory that people of a particular race are inherently racist, privileged or oppressed. A federal judge last November blocked the law’s enforcement in colleges, universities and businesses, calling it “positively dystopian.” (My bold.)
"Inherently" connotes that "people of a particular race are ... racist, privileged or oppressed" purely by their nature as being of the specified race, which is obviously completely fucking wrong. The truth is that "people of a particular race" are "privileged or oppressed" to some degree because they exist as a particular race within a social/cultural/economic system which privileges or oppresses them based on race. Note that I did not include "racist" as a quality in my corrective statement. It's true that a social/cultural/economic system can increase the likelihood that an individual within it would be racist, due to pressures applied to people within such a system, but it would be wrong to make a blanket statement that all people of a particular race "are racist."
: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
So when we say "STOP WOKE" you're actually saying, be less attentive to important societal facts and issues. I will give the right wing some credit, they do messaging better than anybody.
The university had signed an offer letter in a public ceremony saying it would hire her as director in a tenured position to revive its journalism program. Soon afterward it reneged on the offer amid right-wing backlash over her work for The New York Times and interest in diversity, equity and inclusion.
The Texas A&M System acknowledged in its review that system and university administrators made mistakes in the hiring process, as certain procedures were not followed. Race and gender were not involved in any of the decisions made, the university said.
“The (Office of General Counsel) did not identify any other evidence that race was a factor in the internal hiring process. In addition, there was no evidence of gender as a factor in the hiring process,” the internal report said.
Some of the documents released with the report show what McElroy was up against.
"A win for Aggies! The leftwing "journalism" professor/DEI advocate that A&M tried to recruit won't be taking the job. After she was exposed by @Texas Scorecard for her racist beliefs, she decided staying at UT was a better fit," says a photo of a tweet under the name Michael Quinn Sullivan, the publisher of Texas Scorecard, a far-right website. The site published stories about her hiring that focused on her diversity work. The tweet that was part of a text from a board member included a photo of a Texas Tribune story about the hiring mess.
They scream and shout about "cancel culture" while pulling shit like this. Add it to the pile of right-wing hypocrisy.
I read the OGC report and my interpretation is that it was heavily implied that her race was a factor in why non-university sources were bitching and moaning about her hiring to members of the board of regents, who were uncharacteristically involved in asking the president about this hiring.
Like just because no one on the record says "don't hire a black woman" doesn't mean they aren't all dog whistling to each other about her race.
In the OGC report, at one point the BoR or president expressed concern about "the optics" of hiring someone who's done research in a DEI topic/worked on at least one committee to increase representation in newsrooms during the last state legislative session, under which a law was signed by piss baby Abbott to make it illegal to consider diversity in the hiring process. The OGC report is clear that the president intervened to delay McElroy's hire date until after the end of that legislative session at the very least.
I'm glad A&M settled, but I think she should have sued for more. It's funny that she made more money off this than if she had worked there 5 years in the original offer...
Grand jury names and addresses are public information in Georgia. It is admirable that the grand jury participants indicted Trump despite knowing they would almost certainly be subject to harassment and death threats from Trump’s MAGA goons.
Already happening. At one MAGA site someone posted, “These jurors have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President Trump”. Still waiting to see some of those “very fine people” MAGAs Trump said exist.
I like to imagine he has a serious sharpie problem. He’s completely hooked on sniffing sharpies all day long. It starts with a one-pack, and before you know it, you’re getting bulk discounts by pretending to work in academia. The feeling when you twist off the cap of a new sharpie? Can’t be beat.
What the fuck, this article never even told me what the one weird trick was! Oh well, back to what I was doing before… God damnit, they put their homepage in my back history!
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