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.
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.
The anti-union shit is insane. I know there are laws forbidding anti-union propaganda at the workplace; but every Walmart back room I’ve been in has been fucking plastered with anti-union bullshit, as well as anti-union videos being shown as part of the training.
Their anti-union work is legendary. Walton inspired frikkin Bezos.
That they can talk about “pulling back on DEI efforts” in the news bit and not mention that most of Wally’s workforce is women and PoC? News in a vacuum.
They haven’t “stepped back from diversity, equity and inclusion efforts after feeling the heat from conservative activists.” Walmart IS the Conservative activist in this situation.
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.
This decision was no doubt motivated by the exact same question that made them put that merchandise up in the first place: “what will result in us earning more profit?”
I’d like to see hard data on whether or not being “anti-woke” generates more profit. I’ve never seen evidence that it does.
“changing cultural pressures”
Right
I was in one recently and one of the workers was wearing a rainbow cape with the Walmart star thing on it. I thought it was neat. Now I worry for this person.
Unrelated, but I was shopping in a local Walmart a couple years ago, and they had one of their employees (who I assume was either a choir kid in high school or in a choir program at college) singing close to the front of the store. He sounded really good, I just thought it was weird Walmart was doing that. I think it was for some fundraiser or something.
Need to bring People of Walmart back since the white trailer park trash is going to be the only ones shopping there now
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