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Walt Disney Co on Friday said that remarks by activist investor Nelson Peltz criticizing the company for making movies dominated by female and Black actors is evidence that he shouldn't be on Disney's board.

Peltz, whose fight to join Disney as a director has become one of the year's most bitter and closely watched board battles, in an interview with the Financial Times said Disney's films have become too focused on delivering a message, and not enough on quality storytelling. He specifically took issue with "The Marvels" and "Black Panther."

“Why do I have to have a Marvel that’s all women? Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that?" Peltz said in the interview, published on Friday. "Why can’t I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-Black cast?”

Asked about Peltz's remarks, a Disney spokesperson responded: "This is exactly why Nelson Peltz shouldn't be anywhere near a creatively driven company."

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Good on you for admitting you're a racist. You could have done it quicker tho.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

While most of his comment read that way, reread the last two paragraphs. He definitely has a point there, all of the corporate inclusion and diversity is about market share, not addressing real issues.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

His point was that none of the actors cast in the film actually come from the fictional country of Wakanda.

He did his research on it and everything.

His last two paragraphs and your entire comment are baseless assertions that are at best pointless cynicism ("they're doing the right thing but only to make money" doesn't counter the fact that they're doing the right thing) and at worst it's regurgitating current American right-wing propaganda (Branding "inclusion and diversity" as bad or outright illegal is a current right-wing political agenda item. It is designed to harm minorities by removing programs that have proven effective at lowering racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. in schools and the workplace).

It's not a good look for either of you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Like I said to that guy, did you even watch the movie? "Addressing real issues" was core to the movie. Michael B. Jordan's character was motivated by hundreds of years of colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and racism faced by black people the world over, and specifically in the U.S.