The FCC said that ABC’s inclusion criteria require 50% of normal or repetitive characters from “underrepresented groups” featured on the network.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Kerr ordered an investigation into Disney’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, assessing discrimination, racial or other scope.
“In recent years, Disney has made DEI an important priority for the company’s companies, and has incorporated explicit race and gender-based standards throughout its business,” the letter said, adding that the publication has reported “it will “pain a disturbing picture of Disney’s DEI practices.”
Disney has mandated the “inclusion standards” across the ABC, which is necessary to ensure that 50% of regular and regular characters featured in content like television shows are from “underrated groups.”
“These criteria may have forced race and identity assignments to all levels of production, indicating that “over 50%” of writers, directors, crews and vendors are chosen based on group identity. ”
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The ABC restricts fellowships to specific demographic identities, uses a race-based recruitment database, and may link executive bonuses to DEI performance, the FCC president wrote.
The letter reminded Disney that FCC rules and communications laws prohibit regulated entities, such as the company’s ABC network, from discriminating against individuals based on color, race, gender, age, national origin or religion.
The FCC’s Equal Employment Opportunity Rules specify certain requirements that Disney entities must strictly follow.
“Your company has recently made some changes to how IT brands certain efforts, but it’s not clear that the basic policy has changed in a basic way.
“I want to ensure that Disney will end virtually all discriminatory initiatives, not just the name,” the FCC chairman said. Additionally, “Disney Action – I want to determine whether or not you want to always check with the applicable FCC regulations whether they are ongoing or have recently ended.”
In an emailed statement to the Epoch Times, a Disney spokesperson said: “I am reviewing the Federal Communications Commission letter and look forward to being involved with the committee to answer any questions.”
The Epoch Times reached out to ABC for comments.
Placing down Dei
The FCC letter highlights President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the DEI program across the federal government.
“And in my direction, the FCC is already taking action to end DEI promotions. I am pleased that regulated companies are taking steps to eradicate discriminatory DEI policies,” Carr wrote.
Earlier in January, a Facebook owner meta spokesman told the Epoch Times that it had ended its DEI with recruitment, development and procurement services.
Large companies and other institutions employ and use “danger, sneering, and immoral race and gender-based preferences” under the guise of what is called “diversity, equity, inclusion” (DEI) or “diversity, equity, inclusiveness, and accessibility (DEIA).
The administration has pushed for crackdowns on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in several sectors.
