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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.
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 mum
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 3 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 5-year-olds are innocent
these presenters think they're
auditioning for the KKK Hasbro these M
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 we had a special
responsibility to do this because as toy
makers we had Direct access to
Children's brains we could give them a
head start on the road to developing a
racial identity consciousness my head
was exploding I thought our job was to
help kids have fun and develop their
imaginations when the presenters
finished the 70 or so people on the call
were mostly silent except for some mild
comments I really didn't know what they
were thinking but I was appalled and
disgusted and the more I thought about
it the worse the feeling became these
presenters were telling every white
person in the room that they were
racists and they had been racist their
entire lives while black people have
been taught to be disgusted with their
skin color their entire lives together
we were all perpetuating white supremacy
by not being anti-racist in our toy
design and how could we atone for our
sins create new toys to make little
white and brown and black kids aware of
their racial identities in case you
hadn't noticed I'm black did that
absolve me of any guilt did it make me
more culpable I had no idea none of
their BS made any sense I should add
that nobody at Hasbro ever mistreated me
because of my skin color then almost as
an afterthought I remembered I had
recorded the entire thing if people
could see what I just saw maybe they
would understand how twisted this
obsession with the race had become I
needed to tell someone anyone but I
didn't trust the corporate news outlets
so I decided to go a non-traditional
route I remembered seeing interviews
with James O'Keefe the founder of
project Veritas I sent him the recording
his team saw its value immediately
Within weeks hundreds of thousands of
people knew about the Hasbro
presentation it quickly came out that
this husband and wife team had also
partnered with Google MGM the NFL and
Nickelodeon among other bigname
brands Hasbro as you might imagine
wasn't pleased with what I had done they
were smart enough not to fire me and
bring more attention to the story
instead when my contract expired 6
months later that was it my dream toy
engineering career was over so why why
did I do it why did I choose to turn
over this Dei Rock and expose the
poisonous creature beneath it it would
have been easier to say nothing but
that's what these race agitators count
on intimidating people into silence that
ticks me off and I don't like them
teaching kids to be obsessed with race
that really takes me off so I took
action because I could and because I
believed it was the right thing to do if
enough of you join me we can stop this m
mess di must d e I'm David Johnson for
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