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Among the changes to which America’s largest private employer agreed, according to Mr. Starbuck, are curbing staff DEI training, not participating in the Human Rights Campaign’s gay-friendliness annual index, and reviewing involvement in Pride and other sexually-themed events.
Walmart also agreed to stop using the terms “DEI” and “Latinx” in official communication, to review its marketplace for sexually inappropriate products being marketed as gay material, and no longer consider diversity efforts among its contractors and suppliers.
“We will evaluate supplier diversity programs and ensure they do not provide preferential treatment and benefits to suppliers based on diversity. We don’t have quotas and won’t going forward. Financing eligibility will no longer be predicated on providing certain demographic data,” Mr. Starbuck wrote on X, apparently citing communications with Walmart.
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Walmart also agreed to stop using the terms “DEI” and “Latinx” in official communication, to review its marketplace for sexually inappropriate products being marketed as gay material, and no longer consider diversity efforts among its contractors and suppliers.
“We will evaluate supplier diversity programs and ensure they do not provide preferential treatment and benefits to suppliers based on diversity. We don’t have quotas and won’t going forward. Financing eligibility will no longer be predicated on providing certain demographic data,” Mr. Starbuck wrote on X, apparently citing communications with Walmart.
Walmart dumps DEI programs amid conservative backlash: ‘Biggest win yet’
Walmart will be cutting back its “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs and other forms of what conservatives deride as corporate wokeness.
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