Posted on 07/11/2021 5:31:38 PM PDT by algore
Two families sued Universal Orlando for $30,000 after an actor dressed as the Disney character 'Gru' flashed a white-power hand gesture in two separate photos with young girls of color.
The lawsuit - filed in Orange County, Florida on June 23 - includes the photos from February and March 2019 with the 'Despicable Me' character making the 'OK' white-supremacist hand gesture in both photos.
One of the victims is a six-year-old biracial girl and the other victim is a five-year-old Hispanic girl.
'He openly and pointedly displayed towards them a universally-known and universally-used hate symbol that indicates white power,' the lawsuit says.
'This white power hand signal has become openly and widely used to express hatred towards a segment of the population based upon a person's race, color and national origin, and it has prevalently and commonly been known as a hate symbol for years.'
The Anti-Defamation League considered the 'OK' hand gesture a form of hate speech in 2017.
The six year old ran up to the actor dressed as Gru from one of her favorite movies 'Despicable Me' and asked for a picture in February 2019.
The actor put his arm around the young girl and made the hand gesture above her shoulder and let it linger, according to the lawsuit.
She wanted to show the picture to her classmates but her parents told her she couldn't because 'a man did a bad thing to her because he did not like her because of her race and color,' the lawsuit says.
A month later, 'Gru' did the same thing in a picture with a young Hispanic girl.
In both incidents, the lawsuit claims the character's handler or the park did nothing to stop it and are responsible.
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and some kind of sanctions for the unnamed atty who figured it would be an easy nuisance shakedown.
In my opinion Disney is far more evil sleazy than this atty could ever dream of being.
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Disney won't even pay Alan Dean Foster who has a legitimate lawsuit.
https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/18/disney-must-pay/
2019????
2019 called and they want their future woke payments, Universal Studios.
Also....why would Universal Orlando even have an official Disney character?
Fake CosPlay?
That Reddit prank is still going.
#LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
“a white-power hand gesture”
I used to think that the media was easy to troll (they are). Evidently, our entire society is easy to troll. The “okay” sign is Literally Hitler. I remember back when it was just cartoon frogs.
Keywords include: Silly/ Frivolous/ Gratuitous/Triggered!
Not a Babylon Bee spoof. Should be.
What immature, asinine, greedy, money-grubbing lost souls they are. And terrible parents.
Hopefully this will get tossed out and those that brought the suit mocked relentlessly for years.
Buckwheat was big into the White Power.
‘He openly and pointedly displayed towards them a universally-known and universally-used hate symbol that indicates white power”
Unless a Democrat does it.....
The ok hand sign isnt racist, its the universal ok hand sign
If you want racist hand signals check out any urban yout gang flashing signs
the 'OK' white-supremacist hand gesture
Just last week I flashed my hispanic contractor such a white supremecist sign when he asked how a stucco job looked. The guy mistook my meaning. Instead of smiling at what he thought was my recognition of a job well done he was supposed to grovel at my white superiority and recognize that he had no reasonable expectation of getting paid by this white racist. He should have been honored by the privilege just to work for free. /sarcasm
Yo! I got ya, my white brotha.
That's why he was shot.
Because their parents are morons.
Victim???? Someone in Dachau was a victim. I'm sure they would have traded places with these Universal Orlando victims any day of the week.
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