Well, well, well—look who finally got Mickey Mouse hauled into the principal’s office. The FCC is launching an investigation into Disney and ABC over their DEI-driven hiring practices, and it’s about time someone in Washington grew a spine and called this nonsense what it is: discrimination dressed up in pastel-colored corporate jargon.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr fired off a sharply worded letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger, raising concerns that the company’s obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion may have wandered way off the legal reservation. And let’s be honest—it didn’t take a microscope to notice something was off. For the past few years, Disney hasn’t so much as tiptoed into DEI waters—they cannonballed in, head first, and started handing out life jackets based on race, gender, and “lived experience.”
Carr’s letter pulls no punches. He wants to know whether Disney and ABC were violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by embedding race- and gender-based hiring criteria into their operations. And not just surface-level compliance—he’s talking about whether they’ve truly ended “any and all discriminatory initiatives in substance, not just in name.” Translation: don’t try to slap a new label on the same old woke policies and think no one will notice.
I have asked the @FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to open an investigation into Disney & ABC.
While Disney started as an iconic American company, it recently went all in on DEI.
I am concerned that their DEI practices may violate FCC prohibitions on invidious forms of discrimination. pic.twitter.com/E31QwwFcxA
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) March 28, 2025
Let’s not forget, Disney used to be a company synonymous with American creativity and wholesome family entertainment. Now? It’s a punchline. When people hear “Disney,” they don’t think of innovation—they think of boardroom-level social engineering. Carr nailed it when he said the company has been “infected” by insidious DEI practices. Just look at the “Reimagine Tomorrow” initiative—an effort that sounds more like a failed college sociology seminar than a corporate strategy. Throw in racially segregated “affinity groups,” inclusion quotas, and hiring fellowships closed off to the wrong skin colors, and you’ve got a roadmap to exactly the kind of discriminatory behavior the Civil Rights Act was designed to prevent.
And let’s talk about those so-called “inclusion standards” at ABC. Mandatory diversity quotas for cast and crew? Executive bonuses tied to hitting DEI targets? It’s not just heavy-handed—it’s Orwellian. Imagine telling a highly qualified writer or director, “Sorry, you’re too white, too male, or just not marginalized enough for us to consider.” That’s not progress. That’s bigotry in a power suit.
What Carr is doing here isn’t radical—it’s called enforcing the law. Under the Communications Act, companies like Disney and ABC aren’t allowed to discriminate based on race, gender, or religion. That used to be common sense. But in today’s upside-down corporate culture, where the loudest voice in the HR department seems to have more power than the CEO, we need federal regulators to step in just to remind billion-dollar media companies that you can’t run your business like an Ivy League grievance studies department.
NEW: FCC chair Brendan Carr says he’s preparing to investigate Disney for their DEI practices.
“We’re going to get to the bottom of everything that is ongoing here.”
Last year, a Disney executive was caught in undercover footage saying they won’t hire or promote White males… pic.twitter.com/wihaPwKrkX
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 28, 2025
And notice who’s saying absolutely nothing? ABC. No denial, no clarification—just radio silence. Disney at least offered a prepared statement, which might as well have been drafted by ChatGPT on Ambien: “We look forward to engaging with the commission to answer its questions.” Translation: “We’re scrambling for a legal team that can spin this.”
What’s most telling is that this isn’t happening in a vacuum. The Trump administration had already banned DEI nonsense in the federal workforce, drawing a clear line in the sand against race-based hiring and the pseudo-intellectual ideology propping it up. Now, with RFK Jr. and others putting actual pressure on federal agencies to clean house, the woke corporate agenda is facing something it’s not used to: consequences.
FCC chairman Brendan Carr: “The evidence we have so far indicates potentially that Disney and ABC were making employment decisions based on race and gender…” pic.twitter.com/7gqTH01fg4
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) March 31, 2025
Here’s the bottom line—if your hiring practices require a flowchart to figure out who’s allowed to apply, you’re not a “forward-thinking company.” You’re just discriminating, and no amount of rainbow logos or virtue-signaling press releases is going to change that. The FCC’s finally asking the tough questions, and if Carr gets the answers he suspects, Mickey and friends are going to have a whole lot more to worry about than streaming numbers and box office bombs.
