Quote:Walmart rolls back DEI policies, becoming latest US firm to join growing trend
Walmart joins Ford, John Deere, Toyota, other major companies in ditching controversial DEI initiatives

Walmart is making a slate of changes to its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, becoming the latest in a growing list of major corporations to halt the so-called "woke" initiatives.

Anti-woke activist and filmmaker Robby Starbuck, who has been leading a campaign exposing major corporations' woke policies, said on X on Monday that he warned Walmart executives last week that he would be doing a story on "wokeness" at the retail giant.

"Instead," Starbuck shared, "we had productive conversations to find solutions."

Starbuck outlined the changes Walmart agreed to make, including working to remove sexual and transgender products inappropriately marketed toward children and reviewing grants to Pride events to avoid funding sexualized content targeting kids.

Walmart clarified that these changes have been in the works for a few years and were not a result of the conversation with Starbuck.

Walmart confirmed to FOX Business that it plans to change how it monitors products within its marketplace and reviews the funding of grants.

The company said some products that violated its policies have been removed, such as chest binders – products designed to flatten the chest – when marketed to children...

...Starbuck is taking a victory lap over Walmart's announced changes, telling FOX Business, "Walmart is the single largest employer in the United States. Removing wokeness from Walmart has both downstream effects on suppliers and sets the tone for corporate America."

"Changing normal operating policy at a nearly $1 trillion company is a gargantuan feat that many have tried to achieve but no one until now has actually been able to get done," he continued. "It speaks to the strength and scale of our movement to eliminate wokeness from society and how effective I've been as a megaphone for the concerns of your average consumer."

Starbuck added, "I won't stop until wokeness is a relic of the past."

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Yeah somehow promoting color or gender over more qualified ISNOT RACIST OR SEXIST. It’s just plain stupid.

Until people start to understand especially in business that your talent is what is most desirable not how you look then and only then will we move forward as a nation.

Walmart says these changes have been "in the works for a few years"?

So, it takes a few years to undo something that took them a month or two to roll out?

Sure... In the words of Rodney Dangerfield... "Pull this leg and it plays Jingle Bells".

One hell of a rollback.

In other words, the products weren't selling, the people weren't buying it, even after these companies tried to push them down our throats for 8 years.

I don't know how they get all the HR stuff past all the Karens in HR tho.

(11-26-2024 07:01 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  In other words, the products weren't selling, the people weren't buying it, even after these companies tried to push them down our throats for 8 years.

I don't know how they get all the HR stuff past all the Karens in HR tho.

b/c #surveySays ... who the fock has the largest lobbying retail/corpshite/union/edu/etc crew...

maybe one day they'll teach this shite in muh muh muh schools...

how/why do/did people jab

how/why does one not go private/home schooling if plausible ... that's slam dunk of 'em all...

how/why does HR only wave the corpshite's wand of 'wtfe in the land of Sarbanes/Oxley' bullshites...