UPDATED!
(Original Post Below This Update Dated Aug 17, 2024)
For years, major corporations bragged about their wonderful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. They’re good for business and morally correct, they said. So why are they now cutting those programs?
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President Donald Trump ended federal DEI programs.
Even before, companies were having second thoughts.
Victoria’s Secret changed “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” to “inclusion and belonging.”
Now, even woke Disney, despite squandering 270 million shareholder dollars on a moronic new version of “Snow White,” joined the mob of companies dropping DEI programs.
Why? Diversity, equity and inclusion sound good.
The problem is that DEI programs were captured by activists who obsess about victimhood. They divide people more than they empower.
“Diversity, equity and inclusion,” says activist Robby Starbuck in my newest video, “don’t mean what they pretend to mean.”
Before Trump ended federal DEI programs by executive order, Starbuck ended them at some companies merely by using the power of speech. His strategy: warn companies that he’ll tell his social media followers what stupid things they do.
Remarkably, that worked!
After he criticized John Deere on Twitter for encouraging “preferred pronouns” and holding woke diversity trainings, John Deere quickly dropped those policies.
Toyota, Target and Harley Davidson did, too.
“Why did they listen to you?” I ask. ….
… CON’T ….
ORIGINAL POST:
(Tue, Aug 6, 2024) Dennis talks to conservative activist, Robby Starbuck. He’s leading a campaign against the wokeism at, of all places, Harley Davidson. (More links at video description)