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‘A huge regression’: Walmart’s DEI rollback incites new racial equity push
(www.theguardian.com)
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It really feels like the whole goddamn country didn’t waste a single second falling in line behind this fucking shithead. Fuck America.
If you're shocked that broad corporate fair-weather astroturfing wasn't actually what it claimed, you were naive. The speed coming the other way--from not acknowledging LGBTQ or other minority groups existed as humans who deserve a voice or consideration to sponsoring pride shirts and hiring visibly tokenized figureheads--should have been indicative the change wasn't organic, which means it wasn't going to stick at the first pressure; economic, political, or other.
Companies largely follow non-discrimination laws related to employment not because it's the right thing to do, but because they can be sued easily under federal and many states' employment laws. Don't put your time into company-run employee groups, put it into getting progressives elected and engaging with unionization so you can take your place at the table rather than waiting for it to be given.
Not shocked, just disappointed. I do appreciate the shit talk though.
He's not even in the chair yet and companies and government workers are making changes to benefit him.
Benefit him? This change benefits them. Walmart has 1.6M domestic employees. Any HR-mandated training like DEI requires substantial unproductive payroll hours to be spent in every corporate location.
Walmart could give two shits about DEI. They just care about saving overhead and maximizing profits.
Source: Corporate shill for 25 years
The training saves money in future lawsuits though
But not the current profits. Same idea as oil companies burying that they would utterly destroy the climate, but it was "far enough in the future" that the potential money to be gained was better short term.
I think maybe America at large is fucking spineless.
What? The cowards that think guns have a place in modern society? Spineless?
🤔
No. Way.
I notice LGBT/trans-friendly content vanishing from netflix, shows with such characters cancelled after one season almost immediately after the election?
The people who own these businesses are all conservatives because conservatives exist to make rich people richer.
Lefties don't understand this yet, but they don't have a choice but to engage in class warfare if they want their other agendas to have a shot at succeeding.
To start things off, stop subscribing to streaming sites when there are free streaming services available. In your social interactions, don't say "it's on netflix." Say, "you can stream it for free here: " and then give a site like https://hydrahd.com/
An entire country of boot lickers, slurping it up.
For profit Corporations, especially publicly traded ones, are sociopathic organizations, and their DEI marketing should honestly always have been seen as patronizing opportunism. I'm glad they aren't still attempting to sucker those groups into believing they ever gave a shit about their identity. They didn't. It was an ad campaign to get your money. It made an enemy look like a friend to the easily gullible.
I say fuck America because someone was finally brave enough to send a message to those sociopaths in the only language they will hear, and tragically all the people he was trying to rally just said yay on the internet and are moving back to fighting all the secondary wedges the sociopaths killing us feed us to passify us and keep us at war with our fellow poors.
No other war can begin to be addressed without ending this class occupation, because they see profit in stoking every other culture war, and have every bully pulpit to do so.
Yes, but I refuse to absolve any responsibility from bad actors who justify their behavior because Trump is vile.
He’s effectively granting societal permission for racist/sexist/homophobic/bigoted behavior. It’s their choice to follow suit or continue to do the right thing. Walmart made their choice.
The stories we get on Lemmy are found by folks with similar taste in politics and so are sourced from media which helps reinforce our perspective. This skews our perception to be more inline with what we want at the cost of the reality. There are many who support this new jingoist kleptocracy and will hurt themselves for a chance to get a piece of the action.
Walmart has some employees upset at its lack of DEI. None of those employees make business decisions that can see this reversed. The people are upset but the decision makers don't care.
Keep in mind that the other side sees things the same way when companies adopt progressive policies after Democrats get in power, the corporations and States that don't fall in line just get forgotten. Obviously the biggest difference is that only one side is fighting for equity.