{"id":38709,"date":"2024-11-26T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=38709"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:39:56","slug":"walmart-announces-roll-back-of-woke-dei-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=38709","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Announces Roll Back of Woke DEI Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Following intense pressure from conservative activists and common-sense Americans, Walmart has announced it will \u201croll back\u201d its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies.<\/p>\n

Activist Robby Starbuck<\/a> made the announcement on X, sharing, \u201cWalmart is ending their woke policies. I can now exclusively tell you what\u2019s changing and how it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starbuck calls it \u201cthe biggest win yet for our movement to end wokeness in corporate America\u201d and shares some of what Walmart has\u00a0committed to:<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Surveys: Walmart will no longer participate in the HRC\u2019s woke Corporate Equality Index.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Products: Monitor the Walmart marketplace to identify and remove inappropriate sexual and \/ or transgender products marketed to children.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Funding of Grants: Review all funding of Pride, and other events, to avoid funding inappropriate sexualized content targeting kids.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Equity: We will not extend the Racial Equity Center which was established in 2020 as a special five-year initiative.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Supplier Diversity: We will evaluate supplier diversity programs and ensure they do not provide preferential treatment and benefits to suppliers based on diversity. We don\u2019t have quotas and won\u2019t going forward. Financing eligibility will no longer be predicated on providing certain demographic data.<\/p>\n

\u2022 LatinX: Walmart will no longer use the term in official communications.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Trainings: Walmart will discontinue racial equity training through the Racial Equity Institute.<\/p>\n

\u2022 DEI: Walmart will discontinue the use of DEI as a term while ensuring a respectful and supportive environment. Our focus is on Belonging for ALL associates and customers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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MASSIVE news: Walmart is ending their woke policies. I can now exclusively tell you what\u2019s changing and how it happened.<\/p>\n

Last week I told execs at @Walmart<\/a> that I was doing a story on wokeness there. Instead we had productive conversations to find solutions.<\/p>\n

Below are the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/BD02xJQ0X2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Associated Press<\/a> confirmed the changes, noting, \u201cThe giant retailer said on Monday that it will better monitor its third-party marketplace items to make sure they don\u2019t feature sexual and transgender products aimed at minors\u201d among the other sweeping changes.<\/p>\n

AP reports:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer will also be reviewing grants to Pride events to make sure it is not financially supporting sexualized content that may be unsuitable for kids. For example, the company wants to makes sure a family pavilion is not next to a drag show at a Pride event, the company said.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Walmart will no longer consider race and gender as a litmus test to improve diversity when it offers supplier contracts. The company said it didn\u2019t have quotas and will not do so going forward. It won\u2019t be gathering demographic data when determining financing eligibility for those grants.<\/p>\n

Walmart also said it wouldn\u2019t renew a racial equity center that was established through a five-year, $100 million philanthropic commitment from the company with a mandate to, according to its website, \u201caddress the root causes of gaps in outcomes experienced by Black and African American people in education, health, finance and criminal justice systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Walmart\u2019s decision is sure to make waves in corporate America as the retailer is the number one employer in America with around 1.5 million employees.<\/p>\n

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