DEI
November 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Walmart has joined a growing list of American companies who have renounced DEI programs and initiatives. Walmart’s announcement was precipitated by pressure from activist Robby Starbuck: Walmart has said it will no longer consider race and gender policies when granting supplier contracts after facing pressure from a conservative activist. *** Walmart is winding down the Center for Racial Equity, a non-profit organisation awarded $100 million of funding by Walmart in
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November 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Kamala Harris knew she had lost her race against President Trump on the evening of the election, but she chose to turn out the lights and go home without conceding. It must have been difficult for her to face the prospect of treating her opponent as something other than the fascist she proclaimed him to be during the course of her abbreviated campaign. She finally got around to the concession
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October 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
That was Casey Stengel’s famous evaluation of his 1962 Mets team, which lost more games than any major league team until the White Sox bested their record this year. But Casey’s lament could equally well be applied to our federal government. Are all of our agencies incompetent? Is there any federal operation, the most lavishly funded in world history, that can actually get anything done? It doesn’t seem so. I
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September 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Daily Wire film Am I Racist? has gotten a lot of publicity. We reviewed the movie here and wrote about Robin DiAngelo’s pained reaction to her appearance in the film here. Am I Racist? has gotten attention both on account of the Left’s attacks and from positive reviews by the likes of Jason Riley: In “Am I Racist?,” Mr. [Matt] Walsh poses as a liberal activist who is earnestly
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August 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The company that owns Jack Daniel’s has abandoned its DEI program under threat of a boycott: Spirits giant Brown-Forman Corp. – with a market capitalization of $21.37 billion – is the latest company to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion program, following Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply and John Deere. Major firms who rely heavily on a red state clientele have been caving to boycott pressure from corporate activist Robby Starbuck, who
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July 17, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I guess John Deere decided it can’t let Tractor Supply outflank them when it comes to respecting the values of its customer base, and today John Deere released a ‘Dear John’ letter to DEI nonsense (though you have to read between the lines a bit to see that’s what’s happening): Equally notable today is that Microsoft is apparently disbanding its entire DEI apparatus: Microsoft recently laid off its diversity, equity,
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June 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Tractor Supply Co., that is. Faced with the possibility of a Bud Light-style consumer boycott, Tractor Supply Co. released the following statement today (click to embiggen): UPDATE by JOHN: If you are wondering what a company like Tractor Supply (!) could possibly have done to merit that abject apology, check out this tweet, and especially the video, by Robby Starbuck: It’s time to expose Tractor Supply. It’s one of the
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June 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Wall Street Journal reports that corporate America is backpedaling away from “diversity”: White-collar companies that once championed programs to recruit diverse employees are now tiptoeing away from them. PricewaterhouseCoopers and JPMorgan Chase are among those that recently removed or altered descriptions of their programs for underrepresented students. The shift came after an “anti-woke” movement took aim at U.S. companies and a Supreme Court decision overturned affirmative action in college
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June 6, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Harvard is trying to distance itself from its image as a left-wing institution, strongly aligned with the Democratic Party. Last week, the university said it would stop taking public positions on issues that are not relevant to its core functions as an educational institution. Now, Harvard has announced that its faculty of Arts and Sciences will no longer be subject to a DEI hiring requirement: Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts
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May 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Insiders at UCLA’s medical school apparently have shared information with the Free Beacon that shows the destructive impact of racism–DEI–on medical schools. The story by Aaron Sibarium begins with an anecdote: [W]hen it came time for the admissions committee to consider one such student in November 2021—a black applicant with grades and test scores far below the UCLA average—some members of the committee felt that this particular candidate, based on
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April 2, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School is one of the progenitors of Critical Legal Theory (CLT) back in the late 1980s and 1990s. It was an early postmodern expression of the view that language itself—and therefore law expressed in language (because try expressing law through interpretive dance sometime)—is merely a subjective tool of power. It was a precursor to Critical Race Theory (CRT), which is a key component of the
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March 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Woke capitalism is one of the strange phenomena of our era. I understand why government agencies might go in for DEI (Didn’t Earn It), since government at all levels is mostly in the hands of liberals and government employees, by their nature, are inclined to social engineering. But why corporations should sign up en masse for this left-wing nonsense is beyond me. It is beyond most Americans, too. Rasmussen asked
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March 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Black college athletes do, according to the NAACP. The NAACP is urging black athletes not to go to college in Florida: The NAACP asked Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in the state of Florida, in response to the University of Florida and other state schools recently eliminating their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. In a letter sent to NCAA president Charlie Baker and
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March 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I think the answer to that question is Yes. In reality, the whole point of DEI is bigotry, so the fact that its exponents keep getting outed as haters is not at all coincidental. The latest case comes from Johns Hopkins, where the Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine has resigned following a hateful outburst: The Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine resigned on Tuesday after criticism stemming
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