TheQuartering [1/26/2021]

Well, it would appear that at one point Disney had some morals. Those days are gone.

According to BoundingIntoComics:

Given the recent racism-related discourse permeating the Star Wars fandom, it may come as a shock to many that Lucasfilm and Disney once stood against all stripes of racism.

As first reported by Itchy Bacca of Disney Star Wars Is Dumb, now-former Disney Animation Studios employee Justin Garrison placed a since-deleted ad for a “non-white, non-male engineering manager” to his personal Twitter in December of 2019.

“Not that white males can’t do a great job,” Garrison said in a similarly-deleted follow-up tweet. “We all do better work when we can feel safe and have more diverse opinions and backgrounds.”

In late 2020, Garrison revealed how “certain people on twitter didn’t take kindly to that and said the company was racist for not hiring white dudes” and that his impromptu classified ad had sparked a wave of complaints directed towards Disney, which eventually led the company to confront the engineer regarding his apparently professed beliefs.