Summary
Walmart is scaling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts amid conservative backlash and changing cultural pressures.
The company removed LGBTQ-themed items, stopped sharing data with advocacy groups, and phased out supplier diversity programs and its Center for Racial Equity, created in 2020.
Walmart also rebranded its diversity roles, though it will continue funding events like Pride parades under stricter guidelines.
Activists opposing DEI policies, like Robby Starbuck, have praised these changes.
Walmart isn’t my friend? It isn’t a friend of the working class? A friend of marginalized groups? Wow, I’m just so shocked that it only pretends to be these things for prof-- Just kidding, fuck Walmart. Arguably in the top 5 worst extant companies to ever come out of the US and a parasite on communities everywhere. Needs to be boycotted as much as practicable.
Thanks for the heads up OP. Everyone reading probably knows someone who works there or has worked there themselves. Everything they do sets a weighty precedent for workers, to put it mildly.
its former chief diversity officer role is now called the chief belonging officer
… these petty assholes.
I wish this news bit had at least mentioned Walmart’s White Christian fundamentalist roots. Or how they destroy local businesses and source overseas for their ‘free market,’ their anti-union activism, low wages, shit healthcare options, well-documented sexism and racism in the workplace, etc. In 2020, Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon was an advisor to Trump. Walmart’s political spending in 2024 alone should’ve been at least a footnote. Context matters so much.
well now I’ll have to continue never shopping at walmart.
If I weren’t already not shopping at Walmart, I would be excited to begin not shopping at Walmart in response to this. Can’t win 'em all.
“changing cultural pressures”
Right
More like Trump making bigots bold.
Bigots need to be put back in the closet where they belong. The world was better when you didn’t have republican harpies shrieking shit like “your body my choice”, and the N-word in public.
Really, that’s what these businesses are good for: a barometer of social pressures and cultural views.
A poll can be twisted whichever way, pundits on TV can say whatever they want, but at the end of the day a company will do what makes it the most money. It’s the truest measure of what the majority of society thinks.
So if being LGBTQ friendly gets them more money, they will, and if being nasty to LGBTQ people gets them more money, they’ll do that.
Them pulling LGBTQ stuff back is far more a condemnation of society than of the company.
Need to bring People of Walmart back since the white trailer park trash is going to be the only ones shopping there now
Sexual orientation transcends class divides/labels like that…
Haha. Very good point. In that case, we’ll still see a myriad of naivete
Go to one in a rural area and that’s always been the clientele
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