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.