Race in Hiring at Disney
The Wall Street Journal has an interview with John Skipper, who is the president of ESPN, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Co. From the interview:
WSJ: What's the value of niche sites like The Undefeated and FiveThirtyEight​?
Mr. Skipper: At the Undefeated, the play is about content. If you do a time-lapse of the last two or three years in sports, you'd see more stories pop to the top about race and sports than anything. It is an important area to explore. There is a business reason: among our most important consumers are African-Americans. There is not right now a go-to site for black fans, other than just ESPN sites. [The Undefeated] will be a black-run and black-staffed site.
Maybe I am missing something, but what is to stop some otherwise well qualified white or Asian or otherwise non-black sportswriter or sports editor from applying for a job at The Undefeated, getting turned down, and then suing for racial discrimination in hiring, using as evidence Mr. Skipper's public statement that the the site will be "black-run and black-staffed"? I guess this is life in America in 2016, that a top official of a public company can speak openly about using race as a decisive factor in hiring and not even get a follow-up question about it from the two reporters at the Wall Street Journal. One could argue about whether this sort of thing should be legal or illegal, and even about whether it is a good idea or a bad one (not all bad ideas should necessarily be outlawed). But as someone who used to be in the business of hiring journalists, it certainly gave me pause.
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[–] GibbsMeedat [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
"will be a black-run and black-staffed site."
Can you imagine the outrage that would be generated if a company spokesman announced:
"(the new venture) will be a white-run and white-staffed site."
[–] eagleshigh 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
If I had kids I'd take them there all the time.
It's like when you see groids working where you are going, you turn right around.
[–] windsse 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I wonder if they're using this to dump blacks into a shitty side venture so they don't have them fucking up the main ESPN sites/etc.
[–] dodgesbullets 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's what it seems like honestly. They create a subsidy purely of blacks to take the losses they cause then write it off.
Economically it makes no sense. Blacks are 13% of the population, they don't speak a separate language like Hispanics so there's no divide there, they don't have a lot of money like Asians and Jews. What's the benefit?
Virtue signaling is all I can think about. Show all your rich liberal friends how progressive you are then they don't feel bad about spending money with you. That and the tin-foil social marxist stuff too.
[–] Justlikeus ago
They are self segregating. This will turn out just fine haha
[–] Dashippy 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Looks like segregation is back in full effect. Way to set race relations back a good fifty or so years.
[–] nigger_plz 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
People self-segregate anyway. Why not admit it and make it go both ways. Hire all black and all white.
[–] eagleshigh 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Is the new attraction the African Savanah?