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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.