By Conduit for Action
In recent weeks several big corporations have dumped their radical left DEI policies. Walmart followed their example, and is now the biggest corporation to cut back DEI. The question remains whether Walmart’s Walton family will make similar changes concerning financial support of DEI programs.
DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI has been the vehicle used by the left to ignore equality and instead favor special classes of people. Perhaps the most controversial of the policies has been the sexualization of children through the promotion of transgenderism.
Several big corporations began to backtrack from their DEI policies after the U.S Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions. After the ruling, conservatives increased their pressure on big corporations by filing lawsuits challenging corporate DEI policies.
It does not appear to be a mere coincidence that Walmart abandoned its DEI policies soon after Donald Trump was elected president and Democrats lost seats in Congress.
Highlights of Walmart’s policy change include:
- Monitoring its third-party marketplace items to make sure they don’t feature sexual and transgender products aimed at minors.
- Review grants to Pride events to make sure it is not financially supporting sexualized content that may be unsuitable for children, such as drag queen shows for children.
- No longer participate in the Human Rights Campaign’s index of workplace inclusion for LGBTQ+ employees.
- No longer consider race and gender when it offers supplier contracts.
- Not renew financial support of a racial equity center, which was established after George Floyd died.
The question is whether the changes made by Walmart are just a business decision or whether it also reflects a change of attitude by Walmart’s Walton family.
The Walton Foundation has been a player in funding DEI programs. In 2022, Conduit News reported on one such DEI program supported by the Walton Foundation. It was a grant to the Fayetteville School District primarily focused on sexualizing school children through indoctrination on transgender identity and by supporting the “transitioning” of students. Under the program, parents were left uninformed about the transitioning of their children and powerless to stop it, short of taking their children out of the school.
For more on the Walton Foundation grant to the Fayetteville School District we suggest you read our 2022 article: Public School and the Left’s Battle for Your Children. The article shows the radical left position the Walton Foundation took. Where will they go in the future?
