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Walmart rolls back DEI programs after right-wing backlash
Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | November 26, 2024 | CNN Bitter LOSERS

Posted on 11/26/2024 8:03:48 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, will curb some diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts. It’s the latest company to backtrack on diversity initiatives in the face of right-wing pressure, and its decisions will reverberate across corporate America.

The company said Monday it is ending racial equity training programs for staff and evaluating programs designed to increase supplier diversity. Walmart has worked to increase the number of suppliers that are at least 51% owned or managed by a woman, minority, veteran or someone who is LGBTQ in recent years.

The company is also reviewing all funding of Pride and other events and monitoring its online marketplace to remove sexual or transgender products marketed to children. Walmart also said it will not extend its Center for Racial Equity, a five-year, $100 million philanthropic commitment the company made in 2020 to address the root causes of gaps in outcomes of African Americans in education, health, criminal justice and other areas.

DEI is typically a mix of employee training, resource networks and recruiting practices to encourage representation of people of different races, genders, classes and other backgrounds.

It’s not clear what impact Walmart’s moves will have on its workforce of 1.6 million employees in the United States. More than half of its hourly employees and 42% of management are people of color, according to the company’s latest data. But Walmart’s changes are a sign of a broader retreat of companies spotlighting their diversity programs.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; dei; die; diversity; nathanielmeyersohn; walmart
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1 posted on 11/26/2024 8:03:48 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

It’s too much winning! I can’t take it!


2 posted on 11/26/2024 8:05:56 AM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

It would be all love and peace in Wally’s world if not for us right-wing meanies.


3 posted on 11/26/2024 8:06:02 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Don’t they mean, “after FAR-right-wing backlash”?


4 posted on 11/26/2024 8:06:49 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

when the majority of Americans want something, they are no longer “a wing” left or right.


5 posted on 11/26/2024 8:08:42 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The "right-wing backlash" isn't buying the new Jaguar BS, isn't drinking Dylan Mulvaney's Bud, not flocking to Target to buy LGBT+ consumer products, not watching CNN and MSNBC much anymore, and so on.

Therefore, we know may change the dictionary meaning: "Right-wing" is the largest share of consumers. And their "backlash" means consumers walking away.

Hoe DARE we?

6 posted on 11/26/2024 8:09:27 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Conservatives pounce!!!”


7 posted on 11/26/2024 8:11:17 AM PST by montag813
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

“increase the number of suppliers that are at least 51% owned or managed by a woman, minority, veteran “

But, what does that mean when probably 70+% of what Walmart sells is made in China, India or Vietnam?

Is that not “diverse”?


8 posted on 11/26/2024 8:12:48 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Right-wing backkash? How about normal-people backlash?


9 posted on 11/26/2024 8:13:09 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Wal*Mart doesn’t want to get Bud Lighted. Or is it Bud Lit ?


10 posted on 11/26/2024 8:15:41 AM PST by libh8er
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

They’re just going to move it behind the scenes and into the undocumented and unspoken meetings. Keep pressing the attack. Drive them out from every corner. DEI has no place in our nation.


11 posted on 11/26/2024 8:19:46 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: libh8er

“Walmart Rolls Back DEI Programs after Right-Wing Backlash”
This headline should read:
“Walmart Rolls Back DEI Programs after Backlash From People Who Oppose Racism”


12 posted on 11/26/2024 8:21:40 AM PST by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents say Russia Is Trying To Influence The 2024 Election)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Oh, no, no, no. No you don’t. Wal-Mart. You helped usher in all this left wing sh*tola and forced many mom and pop operations out of business in the process. You made your bed of sh*t. You lie in it.


13 posted on 11/26/2024 8:25:58 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Feed me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- PDJT)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Its not right wing backlash. Its an affront to common sense and decency to most people.


14 posted on 11/26/2024 8:27:10 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Ge0ffrey

Exactly.


15 posted on 11/26/2024 8:30:25 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Frank Drebin
They’re just going to move it behind the scenes and into the undocumented and unspoken meetings. Keep pressing the attack. Drive them out from every corner. DEI has no place in our nation.

A lot of this is coming from the owners of the companies. In some cases, when the younger generations take over a company from the original founders. These younger owners believe in the DEI nonsense. Even if they lose customers, they won't change. Look at Disney. They have to be losing customers, but they're just tripling down on DEI.

16 posted on 11/26/2024 8:30:57 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Normal people are not “right wing” just because they are normal.


17 posted on 11/26/2024 8:36:45 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4280943/posts

At least your header indicates ‘right wing’ not merely conservative...😂👍


18 posted on 11/26/2024 8:40:00 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

IF we had a nationwide organization like the tea party was at first, it would be able to organize boycotts with maga folks nationwide to boycott woke companies and out enough pressure on those companies that they would think twice about going woke


19 posted on 11/26/2024 8:50:51 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The owners and producers at CNN are filthy propagandists. Walmart owners are guilty too.

This wasn't about a "Right-Wing backlash"; it's because the in addition to costs to Walmart increasing, Walmart owners weren't going to show the truth that these Didn't Earn It (DEI) companies would be incurring higher penalties for shorting quantities on orders and/or shipping them late.

The legal problem Walmart ran into is that a Vendor Compliance program must be applied to all vendors equally. Walmart owners were forced to either look racist for charging incompetent DEI firms more due to incomplete or late orders or be forced to lessen charges against all their other vendors - which would, in effect, dissolve the Walmart Vendor Compliance program. No Vendor Compliance Program - no teeth to force vendors to fall in line.

20 posted on 11/26/2024 9:01:21 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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