Musk: Time to Fight Disney's 'DEI Gestapo'

The billionaire said the guidelines were “laboriously vile” and claimed merely navigating the “DEI minefield” will “crush the creative process.”

It “crushes the creative spirit of someone who just wants to make great art!,” Musk said in a response to a post from the Libs of TikTok, a popular and influential account known for its inflammatory posts and incendiary rhetoric against “liberals,” which often targets LGBT+ people.


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Without providing any evidence, Musk said the company’s diversity programs are “enforced by Disney’s DEI Gestapo,” referencing Nazi Germany’s feared secret police, infamous for deploying brutal tactics and torture to suppress resistance.

Ed Morrissey

"Gestapo" is over the top, obviously, and not really appropriate even for rhetorical hyperbole. Corporations implement and enforce policies every day; it's not the enforcement that's the issue, but the policies themselves. Otherwise, Musk's criticisms are entirely valid and correct, especially since Disney's output HAS "suck[ed]" in recent years. 

Will Musk try buying into Disney to do something about it? That's the most interesting question here. 

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