The Animation Blacklist - McCarthyism Returns to Hollywood

The third installment of Alan Ng's series on the insanity at Disney dropped Wednesday. The D-Files, Part 3: Disney the Killer of Dreams

This is a long article about the drive to achieve 50/50 male/female animation staff. Well, the only way that could happen is get rid of the "Old White Guys." You know, the guys with actual experience in animation, who had worked on successful films.

And so it details how they were pushed out, and young activists, with no experience actually animating anything were hired to replace them. And the tactics they employed to control the white guys, and get them to leave.

Toxic Work Environment

Sadly, the tactics worked. The effort to remove or control the “Old White Guys” was effective, and the activists began to “hunker down.” As the young Millennial and Gen Z artist-activists began filling quickly vacated positions, their behavior was emboldened. These recruits had an advocate in Women in Animation (WiA). At this point, WiA was becoming a powerful player in animation. Their leadership was filling prominent executive positions at ALL the major studios as well as within the Animation Guild (the animators’ union).

Right down to the point where they decided that if you are not with us, you deserve to be destroyed. I have previously mentiong that the slogan "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" has a lot in common with the slogan from The Reign of Terror, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." And so it resulted in the destruction of careers, for the crime of not being vocal enough in your support of DEI.

Animation Blacklist

“Yes, Donald. There is an animation blacklist,” and one Disney artist finds himself on it and has not worked to this day. I have changed many of the “alleged” details regarding this incident to protect my sources.

As the activists began infiltrating the ranks of Disney Animation. One artist complained about how fast things were changing and openly questioned the direction “woke” storytelling was taking the particular project he was working on. The questions were not taken well, and this artist was placed on the s**t list. When he wondered why a newly hired “less-talented” female POC artist was getting the work that he used to get, he had to endure comments about the patriarchy, “knowing his place,” and his earnest pleas were met with severe repercussions.

With a decade of quality work done for Disney, his work was now being nitpicked to death with a fine tooth comb, criticized more harshly than his female counterparts, and all in an attempt to break his spirit. He described his treatment as “demoralizing and intensely passive-aggressive.” This artist kept his head down, shut his mouth, and continued to do his job to the best of his ability.

On one ominous day, one of his female co-workers felt slighted that he was no longer talking to her. The truth is he was talking to no one. To this narcissist, his silence was interpreted as a micro-aggression, and a #MeToo charge was trumped up against him (the real story is much more incendiary).

I can't quote the whole thing, but he was blacklisted. Not allowed to exhibit his own work at film festivals. Not allowed to work for other studios. Erased.