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.
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.
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.