According to a Fox Business report, Walmart is the latest company to revisit and eliminate some of its more extreme DEI policy initiatives. The superstore joins companies like Ford, John Deere, Toyota, and more in ditching the controversial practices.
From Fox Business:
Anti-woke activist and filmmaker Robby Starbuck, who has been leading a campaign exposing major corporations’ woke policies, said on X on Monday that he warned Walmart executives last week that he would be doing a story on “wokeness” at the retail giant.
“Instead,” Starbuck shared, “we had productive conversations to find solutions.”
Starbuck outlined the changes Walmart agreed to make, including working to remove sexual and transgender products inappropriately marketed toward children and reviewing grants to Pride events to avoid funding sexualized content targeting kids.
Walmart clarified that these changes have been in the works for a few years and were not a result of the conversation with Starbuck.
Walmart confirmed to FOX Business that it plans to change how it monitors products within its marketplace and reviews the funding of grants.
The company said some products that violated its policies have been removed, such as chest binders – products designed to flatten the chest – when marketed to children.
The company has also decided not to extend the Racial Equity Center it launched in 2020 as a five-year initiative and will ditch the terms “LatinX” and even “DEI” altogether in official communications. It will instead focus on the term “belonging” for all associates and customers.
MASSIVE news: Walmart is ending their woke policies. I can now exclusively tell you what’s changing and how it happened.
Last week I told execs at @Walmart that I was doing a story on wokeness there. Instead we had productive conversations to find solutions.
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— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 25, 2024
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WOKE WOES: Walmart joins Ford, John Deere, Toyota and other major companies in ditching controversial DEI initiatives. https://t.co/3nrYtK2xcB pic.twitter.com/ckz9EUTyCV
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 26, 2024
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