A new employee decided to respond to an email this way and was fired. Walmart did not have him do that, which was obvious just from reading the email itself, even before the employee was fired. No corporation would instruct an employee send out an email like that.
The "Walmart hates Christmas" idea is among the most pathetic of all the WalMart bashing talking points, and that says a lot.
He held a position of authority to speak on behalf of Wal-Mart. They $&^#$ed up in granting him that authority.
He didn't circumvent the system to send a privately targeted piece of hatemail.
Have to wonder what other things he may have said in the course of his brief stay at Wal-Mart.
ABC and Target have had similar "outrages" generated when an employee in public relations took such a tone in an email response.
Christianity and Conservativism are not addressed in "diversity training" programs, otherwise they would know that it is not proper.
A better response for industry would be to have all outgoing communications to the public reviewed by a supervisor. ALWAYS.
But then they wouldn't be able to blame a fall guy.