World’s largest retailer Walmart nixes DEI and LGBT-themed products after pressure from conservative activist: This will send shockwaves

[Earl]

World's largest retailer Walmart nixes DEI and LGBT-themed products after pressure from conservative activist: 'This will send shockwaves'​

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By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 01:50 EST, 26 November 2024 | UPDATED: 11:40 EST, 26 November 2024

• Walmart has joined a growing list of major corporations and rolled back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

The move by the world's largest retailer marks a seismic shift in corporate strategy that comes after attacks by conservatives and activists at the company's 'woke' policies.

Some of the sweeping changes include abandoning a $100 million racial equity center set up in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd and leaving a prominent LGBTQ+ gay rights index.

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Walmart's pivot is the latest domino to fall in a growing conservative crusade against DEI initiatives and underscores the increasing pressures faced by corporate America as it continues to navigate the fallout from the Supreme Court's ruling in June 2023 that ended affirmative action in college admissions.

Emboldened by that decision, conservative groups have filed lawsuits making similar arguments about corporations, targeting workplace initiatives such as diversity programs and hiring practices that prioritize historically marginalized groups.

Right-wing groups have relentlessly targeted corporate diversity efforts, branding them as 'woke overreach.' Separately, conservative political commentator and activist Robby Starbuck has been going after corporate DEI policies, calling out individual companies on X.

Several of those companies have subsequently announced that they are pulling back their initiatives, including Ford, Harley-Davidson, Lowe's and Tractor Supply.

World's largest retailer nixes DEI and LGBT-themed products

A major retail giant has made a stunning reversal, rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies under pressure from conservative activists.

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[Earl]

Go WOKE, go broke.

 

[Earl]

Trump isn’t even president yet and he is making America great again.

 

[ExpressLane]

Its time for DEI to DIE.

 

[Earl]

Its time for DEI to DIE.

Indeed.

 

[Nomad]

Poor little MEearl.

Couldn't get anyone to respond to his troll thread.

BTW I'm all for ending the woke silliness but trumpers are as bad or worse than the woke nitwits.

The wokies might be a bunch of misguided dipshits but you trumpers are just ignorant, obnoxious assholes.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Go WOKE, go broke.

Exactly. Walmart woke up to the fact that people don't want that shit in their face. They can see they're losing customers, not gaining them. Catering to a tiny minority rather than the general public is a mistake and Walmart has recognized it.