Largest private employer in US pledged to tackle inequities after George Floyd murder but has now dropped initiatives

Summary

Walmart has rolled back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, ending DEI training, racial equity programs, and diversity metrics in hiring and supplier decisions.

Employees call the move a betrayal, citing the lack of communication and its impact on marginalized groups.

The rollback has drawn praise from conservatives but criticism from racial equity advocates, including Walmart’s largest workers’ group, United for Respect, which plans to reintroduce a racial equity audit proposal in 2025.

Critics argue the changes mark a major regression for racial and workplace equity at the nation’s largest private employer.

      • john89@lemmy.ca
        18·
        6 days ago

        It is nowhere near this bad and I encourage everyone to think back to how the sky was falling leading up to the first trump presidency.

        Like it or not, the powers that be are masters of keeping most people complacent enough so rich people can have a populace to exploit.

        • aesthelete@lemmy.world
          10·
          6 days ago

          It’s not gonna be like the pussy hat protest times in 2017 when Trump was considered an aberration. He has less guardrails this go around and a supreme court that gave him immunity for basically anything he wants to do as long as he isn’t impeached and removed by Congress (though I don’t see how Congress can impeach him and remove him when he could likely kill congressmen as an official act).

          Your attitude of “it wasn’t so bad” was shared by the American electorate who didn’t pay attention to the daily occurrences in his first term and assumed people were being hyperbolic. But the reality is that he’s older, dumber, and more unhinged than he was in his first term, and he promised terrible things his whole campaign and will have nothing stopping him from trying them.

          • john89@lemmy.ca
            23·
            6 days ago

            Well, I hope you’re rational enough to understand that you can’t predict the future and you may actually be wrong about how bad you think things will be. What you’re doing right now is ‘speculating.’ It’s important to acknowledge that your predictions are just that, predictions. They have not come to pass yet and you shouldn’t pretend that your predictions have already been proven true.

            A lot of you people seem to argue as though your predictions are fact, and then get mad at anyone who says otherwise.

            Was the first trump presidency better, worse, or about the same as you expected it to be leading up to inauguration?

            • aesthelete@lemmy.world
              5·
              6 days ago

              I’m not predicting anything above aside from it being different from 2017.

              The first Trump presidency was a dumpster fire that was actively exploding daily until January 20th 2021. But I have “the advantage” of remembering all of the terrible shit that happened because my brain wasn’t ravaged by multiple rounds of COVID to “redpill” me.