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https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/02/09/ethics-hero-elon-musk-vs-ethics-villain-disney/

Ethics Hero Elon Musk vs. Ethics Villain Disney
FEBRUARY 9, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL


Elon Musk is weird, impulsive, sometimes hypocritical and often
infuriating. He is also a national treasure: a true Ethics Hero in the
culture wars.

Back in 2021, Disney fired Gina Carano, one of the stars of the Disney+
series “The Mandalorian” because her social media posts were
insufficiently supportive of the progressive cant Disney is obsessed
with (to its financial and cultural sorrow). The triggering tweet was
one in which Carano, a conservative (can’t have that in Hollywood!)
compared Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish propaganda to efforts by the
political left to demonize people based on their political beliefs.
Proving her point, Disney canned her, explaining, falsely, that her
“social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and
religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

Carano is now suing Disney and Lucasfilms. Her complaint can be read
here. She is suing under California law, which states that
“No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or
policy: (a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or
participating in politics or from becoming candidates for public office.
(b) Controlling or directing, or tending to control or direct the
political activities or affiliations of employees.”


Disney is going to lose, or, if it decides that discretion is the better
part of valor, have to settle with Carano for a significant sum. Usually
big corporations win suits like this over individual plaintiffs because
they have the resources to crush adversaries with their metaphorical
wallets and outlast them. But Carano’s suit is being paid for by Musk,
who delivered on his promise tweeted out a few months ago that if anyone
faced legal problems stemming from exercising the right of free speech
on X/Twitter, he would underwrite the litigation. Carano wrote in her
tweet announcing the suit,

“…To my surprise, a few months ago I received an email from a lawyer who had been hired by X to look into my story & many others. Turns out after sending them as much information as I could gather these past few
months, my now lawyers & X believe whole-heartedly in my case & are
moving forward. I would like to express my deepest gratitude & thank you
to @ElonMusk & @X for giving me an opportunity to bring my case to light.

So should we all.

Musk, however, is not restricting his battle with Disney to the
actress’s travails. Yesterday he made public a document leaked to him
from within the company. It is revolting, a flagrant imposition of
racial and other quotas on hiring and professional development. Tweeting
out this smoking gun, Musk wrote, “An anonymous source just sent me this
from Disney. It is mandatory, institutionalized racism and sexism!” It
is also quite possibly illegal, but the policies described are
definitely unfair and unethical. Behold…



Yikes.

I think Musk should just buy Disney and its various captive entities
like ABC, ESPN, LucasFilm and the rest. That would constitute a big step
toward mopping up a cultural mess, perhaps even a more important step
than taking over Twitter.

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