This is why companies have started announcing they're hiring on merit. The obvious response is "wait, then what have you been doing up to now?". Disney (and Disney's recent massive losses) is your answer.
> Today we’ve formalized an important hiring policy at Scale. We hire for MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence.
Is there a less biased source for this? As far as I can find, this is what was said word for word:
>Certainly, there have been times where, you know, there’s no way we’re hiring a white man for this…. There are times when it’s spoken.
>Reporter: How would they say it?
>There’s no way we’re hiring a white man for this role. They’d be very careful how they’d message that to agents.
Is there more context? Obviously there are situations when you want an actor with a specific ethnicity or gender. And I think people who write posts like this wouldn't be shocked if the VP said "there are situations where we want to hire a white actor and we won't consider anything else. We would word it very carefully".
I'll also quote:
>When it comes to diversity, (...) there’s also a belief that it’s going to make more money if we appeal to a wider variety of people and it’s a good thing.
So... it's entirely a business decision. Disney hires a diverse cast, to target a larger audience. Completely obvious when framed like this.
James O’Keefe is behind this, who worked for Project Veritas, and was fired because he hired women to go on dates with people he wanted to target to get them to say things on hidden camera that suited his political opinions and that would be highly edited to paint the picture he wanted to present. In other words leading questions and flirtatious women and alcohol, pumped to get the desired video result scandal.
As you see in the interview he admits that one of the reasons Disney likes to represent diversity in its programming is for financial reasons. It appeals to a wider audience than just white men, and more sales benefits shareholders.
Surprised to see such a biased political piece here on HN to be honest. One for @dang to review I guess.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 21.3 ms ] thread> Today we’ve formalized an important hiring policy at Scale. We hire for MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence.
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1801331034916851995
>Certainly, there have been times where, you know, there’s no way we’re hiring a white man for this…. There are times when it’s spoken.
>Reporter: How would they say it?
>There’s no way we’re hiring a white man for this role. They’d be very careful how they’d message that to agents.
Is there more context? Obviously there are situations when you want an actor with a specific ethnicity or gender. And I think people who write posts like this wouldn't be shocked if the VP said "there are situations where we want to hire a white actor and we won't consider anything else. We would word it very carefully".
I'll also quote:
>When it comes to diversity, (...) there’s also a belief that it’s going to make more money if we appeal to a wider variety of people and it’s a good thing.
So... it's entirely a business decision. Disney hires a diverse cast, to target a larger audience. Completely obvious when framed like this.
As you see in the interview he admits that one of the reasons Disney likes to represent diversity in its programming is for financial reasons. It appeals to a wider audience than just white men, and more sales benefits shareholders.
Surprised to see such a biased political piece here on HN to be honest. One for @dang to review I guess.