Warner Bros. Discovery’s Chief Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Asif Sadiq recently shared his tact on how to get rid of opponents of DEI from major corporations.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Chief Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Asif Sadiq via TEDx Talks
As reported by News Busters, Sadiq was a panelist for an Aspen Institute webinar titled The Future of DEI in Corporate America at the end of February.
Sadiq would share his comments after Design Observer Editor-in-Chief Ellen McGirt stated, “We came up with this strategy, and I love it. It is: Find your people and ignore the person you cannot persuade. You know exactly who they are, and if you can’t bring yourself to do it because of your professional orientation, give it 30 days. Ignore them for 30 days. Don’t take the bait. Don’t send them the clip. Don’t send them the newsletter. Don’t send them the deck. Just focus on the people who are willing to do the work. The new arrivals to the work. The new leaders who are preparing, as we’ve talked about to be better allies, to be more vulnerable, to communicate better; work preparing them. … But absolutely do not get caught into that spin cycle of trying to persuade the most powerful person that you know who is not interested to be interested because they’re not coming. 30 days you can do it.”
Warner Bros. Discovery Chief DEI Officer Dr. Asif Sadiq promotes not working with, ignoring and discriminating against employees who do not support the DEI agenda. pic.twitter.com/rAWUrf5xVx
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Sadiq reacted to these comments saying, “And if I can just add on to that point because I think it’s such an important point. Even beyond leaders, there’s always those few people who will never change. You will never convince them. You can try up until the end of eternity and it will still not happen. We waste so much energy doing that sometimes as individuals whether you’re in a leadership position or in a team and so on.”
He continued, “Focus on the ones who want to change because that way you start changing culture. And if you change culture often those people who don’t come around will start saying this place isn’t the way it used to be and they’ll leave themselves, which is great!”
America Ferrara as Gloria in Barbie (2023), Warner Bros. Pictures
He didn’t stop with sharing this tactic of pushing people out of the workplace, Newsbusters also reports he said, “I think this is a moment where people have to show up as actively being anti-racist.”
“And that requires going a bit further than saying, ‘That’s not me, so I’m just going to sit back.’ That requires you using your power, privilege and the positions you hold to try to create equity for marginalized groups, for historically marginalized groups and groups who haven’t had access, but that requires really stepping up,” he said. “And it’s showing up as well, showing up internally, showing up to even to the structures that DEI has put in place, whether its business resource groups, employee resource groups, events, showing up during this period of time for a leader is critical, because it shows that you care and you are willing to learn.”
The Suicide Squad in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League (2024), Rocksteady
Ironically, Sadiq has previously admitted his entire Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion division at Warner Bros. Discovery division has been a failure.
During an appearance at Royal Russel School Croydon, Sadiq discussed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion departments and revealed companies in the United States spend over $8 billion on them.
He said, “Every organization trying to drive change, trying to create a workplace that’s more inclusive, a society that’s more inclusive. In the US alone $8 billion were spent on diversity training and many more billions globally to try and create that equity that everyone wants to see, feel in the workplace.”
He went on to reveal the programs are not successful, “It’s not driving the change that we want to see. We are not achieving the success that people want to feel in the workplace.”
Sadiq then explained why he believes these programs have failed and thus are a waste of $8 billion annually, “Why is that? Well, I argue that very training is biased. It’s built with stereotypes. It has assumptions. It’s not always diverse or inclusive. And many times it does the very opposite of inclusion.”
Nick Offerman as Bill and Murray Bartlett as Frank in The Last of Us (2023), HBO
What do you make of Sadiq admitting to driving people out of Warner Bros. Discovery through oppressive DEI initiatives that he admits are a giant waste of money and are complete failures?
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Asif Sadiq is pure evil.
I agree on one point – normal people shouldn’t be working for companies pushing DIE. Let them collapse with only diversity hires.
The culture that they are out to get rid of is meritocracy and individual justice, to be replaced by racism and anti-free-speech totalitarianism.
Without meritocracy there will, of course, be no productivity, and these parasites will just be eating Warner Brothers out from the inside, until the corpse can no longer sustain them.
When McGirt says: “Just focus on the people who are willing to do the work,” she is referring to the “work” of converting a productive culture into an unproductive one, not the work of producing movies that have merit and can keep the company alive.
Merit is their constant enemy, but merit is life. These people are the stink of death.
Seriously dude, your censorship is F-ed up.