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Thursday, July 15, 2021

Your Thursday Morning Florida Report

ORLANDO, Fla. – Two families are suing Universal Orlando after separate incidents during which an actor playing the “Despicable Me” movie character Gru made a racist hand gesture while posing for photos and video with biracial children. 

The civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of two girls, who were 5 and 6 years old at the time of the photos, in the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in Orange County on June 23. The complaint lists Universal Orlando as the defendant.

9 comments:

  1. 5 and 6 years old. Someone is teaching hate at an early age. Does anyone have a list of what don't offend these people?
    Daryl

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  2. Man. This is absolutely plain bullshit. I have told folks more than once that they do not get to define innocuous words, actions, or gestures into offensive acts.

    I once worked for a large oil company. There was some bullshit circulated about the real meaning of picnic being that it was a description of white people having a "pleasant" Sunday outing of "picking a negro (actually another word was used)", going down to the local park, and enjoying food and drink while torturing and lynching that individual. All of this was supposedly going on with their families present as if it were acceptable social behavior. They cited a venerable American governmental organization as the source of the citation.

    I got so pissed off, I started a shit storm that escalate over the course of a couple of weeks to encompass the vice president of diversity affairs (or some such exalted title). She was obviously an affirmative action promotion. The discussion was full of phrases like "harnessing my energy" and other officious claptrap.

    In the end, our entire department had to attend a 4 hour diversity session chaired bu a fat hispanic dyke, an obviously faggot white guy, and a woman of indistinct derivation who was odd as crap. At one point, the three dragged me out of the room and wanted to know what it would take to shut me up. I told them an organizational apology was all I would accept.

    I finally just shut up because it was taking too much time. I got dozens of emails from folks telling me that they applauded my bravery for taking on this issue. But, they would not speak publicly because they were afraid of the perceived ramifications. I ended up leaving, for other reasons, sometime later and doing contract work off and on for the next 20 years or so. What a crock of shit. I actually met folks later who asked: Are you the guy who wrote those notes? I always responded affirmatively.

    Oh well. Sorry to go on, but this is one of my hot buttons. One of my project leads once observed: You are one big button. Probably would have gotten fired and become unemployable today.

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    1. Did much the same at the company's diversity class.

      Anyone been discriminated against? Me, a white male office worker raises his hand.

      Anyone been denied service because of race or sex? Me, a white male who couldn't buy BBQ from the store 3 blocks down from work.

      Anyone been denied due to religion? Me, a white male Catholic in a sea of Baptists who all go to the same church.

      Anyone been denied a job due to sex? Me, a white male office worker.

      Anyone been denied...? Me, a married white male.

      I could provide good examples for everything, even sexual orientation. That job? Human Resources. Boy, the uncomfortable looks I got from the HR dyke who was taking notes on everything people were saying.

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  3. More "get rich quick" bullshit fro a pack of professionally permanently offended parasites and their greedy shyster. The person in the Gru costume needs to sue for
    wrongful termination.

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  4. I thought it was the 'tards at 4chan made up the thing about the Ok sign as a joke intended to ruffle the feathers of SWJ.

    The article mentions that the girl was humiliated when her teacher prohibited sharing the photograph at show & tell. If that is the case, why isn't that teacher, that school, that school district named? Obviously it is because Disney has deeper pockets.

    Disney is sued so often that they have a very large legal department. In fact, that legal department directs the whole of the Disney Corp.

    This lawsuit, like so many which name Disney, is full of BS. Anyway, Disney is evil. The families will get a handsome payout and America dies a little bit more.

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  5. As far as I can remember, some jokers put it online that the OK signal was racist to see if the idiots of wokedom would latch on to this and get all outraged. Of course the imbeciles fell for it so thoroughly that we are now stuck with this kind of thing for ever.

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  6. I guess that's okay if you have nothing else to sue about. These idiots are 100% maroons. As I recall, that hand gesture can also be interpreted as "A-OK".

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  7. It’s 666 Antichrist symbol look it up, also Walt Disney world has 666 in the name

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  8. @Rick and others, The Minions belong to Universal so Disney has no involvement this time. AS for the OK sign, I've been using it since I was a kid to indicate that things were OK, especially where distance prohibits shouting, like on an archery field or on a golf course.

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