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Are toys racist? David Johnson had never thought about it when he landed his dream job at a major toy company. Then he encountered DEI, and everything changed.

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Growing up in New York, you could say I was a “default liberal.” My political opinions, to the extent I had them, weren’t deeply thought out.

They just… were.

My philosophy was “live and let live.” Say what you want, do what you want, just don’t physically harm or abuse another person.

I also never thought much about my skin color — or anybody else’s. For me and my friends, race was never more than a punchline to a joke.

After graduating from college, I got my dream job as an engineer at a major toy company, Hasbro. Everything seemed to be moving in the right direction.

And then one day the company decided that all the engineers would have to attend a training session on implicit bias, racial awareness, and intersectionality.

This was my introduction to the mad, mad world of corporate DEI — Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.

When I heard about the session, I rolled my eyes. All I wanted to do was make cool toys for kids. But, if the company was going to make me sit through some HR mumbo jumbo, I’d play along. The sooner I got through it, the sooner I could get back to the drawing board — literally.

So, there I was on a ZOOM call with a bunch of other employees listening to a DEI presentation entitled “Racial Biases and Children.”

Children hold racial biases? Adults maybe, but Hasbro’s clientele? It struck me as a little weird. A voice in my head said I should record the session.

The presenters, a husband-and-wife team, started by claiming ‘white babies as young as three months begin to exhibit racial preferences’.

By two years, they’re excluding other children based on race…

By three, they’re intentionally using racist language…

By four, they’re showing “a strong and consistent pro-white, anti-black bias.”

And, by five, they hold the same racist biases as their parents.

You think most five-year-olds are innocent; these presenters think they’re auditioning for the KKK.

Hasbro, these mind-readers added, was compounding the problem. Our toys skewed “white” and were therefore perpetuating “anti-blackness.”

“For both kids and adults,” they said, “stereotypes in the product and marketing can reinforce dangerous hostility and resentment.”

What our toys should be doing, they informed us, is teaching children about racial power and privilege.

[ItsChevnotJeff]

It's like what Morgan Freeman said

"You want to end racism? Stop talking about racism"

[achlieber]

The fact that Hasbro wanted to hide its DEI "training" from the public illustrates that DEI is fundamentally evil.

[rudeboysandokhan]

Thank you for sacrificing your dream job in the name of integrity and truth.

[PerversePoster]

It’s ruining politics, institutions, corporations, education, movies and even video games. This crap needs to stop.

[ajvonline]

So, essentially, in the name of DEI, Hasbro put a black man out of work. Hmm...

[TimZoet]

What kids care about: if you are nice, and fun to play with
What kids don't care about: your race

[doswheelsouges]

They fired a black man with DEI as an excuse? Hypocrisy at its best.

[CorporalDirge]

I never knew that my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys were actually just white racists.

Or maybe the DEI pushers were the real racists all along.

[mustang]

DEI is about as bitter as and similar to Maoist struggle sessions.

[johnpavlick]

Hey David, as an adult who thinks children deserve the best quality in toys and entertainment you are like a hero. I hope you have a better job right now with a toy company that deserves you.

[ac]

DEI is destroying a lot of companies. As an investor, I would avoid them like the plague.

[darvillejones]

You’re a brave man. releasing that recording took guts. Thank you.

[beatsbybigjoe]

"The more I thought about it...the worse I felt. " is exactly how I felt when I attended our DEI presentation at my workplace. The whole concept is ridiculous.

[matthias]

In order to prevent racism, we must bring up the skin color issue every time and remind people constantly how divided they are in fact, because if we don't do so, they would just come together and lead happy lives and friendships.

[lorenzotanzi]

This guy thinks about children's safety and integrity more than a Company whose literal job Is to put children First. Mad respect.

[chrisolson]

Thank you for taking a stand against actual racism.

[Portato]

As a former kid, I've never heard or said something racist at my toddler age or another kid, except from adult people. That's freaking terrifying how misleading it is

[mickcraven]

"Intimidating people into silence."

[Allgood]

"Why did i do that?"
You did it cause you are sane grown up man who feel responsebilety about children education and got what to say to people who have delusional ideas. Thank you! With all the love from Russia.

[paulb]

There’s a joke on the net, there’s four kids sitting in a classroom all different colors, the teacher writes critical race theory on the chalkboard, the kids ask I thought we were learning division today, the teacher responded we are.