MolsonCoors scrapping its DEI policies

Bad idea or is it about time they did this?

Molson Coors
is the latest addition to a growing list of companies reversing their diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

“We are ensuring our executive incentives are tied to business performance and do not include aspirational representation goals beginning next year,” company executives wrote in the memo.

Molson Coors also said it is developing “the next evolution” of its company trainings, which will focus on key business objectives instead of its previously DEI-based training programs that the company said all current U.S. employees have already participated in.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/04/molson-coors-pumps-the-brakes-on-dei-practices.html

From the last paragraph in the OP's article:

Corporate DEI practices received renewed interest in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, but have struggled in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision to overturn affirmative action in colleges.

Although the reversal of affirmative action concerns academic institutions and has no legal bearing on corporate initiatives, companies are concerned that the growing anti-DEI sentiment will bleed into corporate America.

@vivify said
From the last paragraph in the OP's article:

[quote]Corporate DEI practices received renewed interest in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, but have struggled in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision to overturn affirmative action in colleges.

Although the reversal of affirmative action concerns academic institution ...[text shortened]...
In other words, businesses are concerned about conservative backlash like with Bud Light and Target

@vivify said
From the last paragraph in the OP's article:

[quote]Corporate DEI practices received renewed interest in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, but have struggled in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision to overturn affirmative action in colleges.

Although the reversal of affirmative action concerns academic institution ...[text shortened]...
In other words, businesses are concerned about conservative backlash like with Bud Light and Target

@uzless said
uh, i think they would say they are focusing on making money rather than hiring people just to fit a quota percentage.

Financial Times “whistleblower” exposes the corporate indoctrination at the respected newspaper.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mattgoodwin/p/james-esses-the-financial-times-has?r=49d14l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

@Mott-The-Hoople said
yeah, conservatives tend to dislike having mental sex freaks forced on them

@uzless said
uh, i think they would say they are focusing on making money rather than hiring people just to fit a quota percentage.

@Suzianne said
And you can't see that "canceling" DEI practices is racist at its core?

Everyone deserves consideration for the same jobs. Not just white people.

Would you bring back "Jim Crow" laws too?

@uzless
So the fact blacks would be beaten if found to be learning to read when they were slaves and after they were freed it was hard to get an education that went on to this day, like the brilliant singer/pianist and I mean virtuoso level pianist BESIDES being a great songwriter, was denied entrance to a nice whitey music school for the express reason she was black.
I doubt you ever even HEARD of Nina Simone, she wrote protest songs like Mississippi GOD DAMN. You should hear it sometime.
Or when in the 1920's black blues players would never go onto main stream records of the day, instead released under what they called RACE records.
Or in the town I lived in when I was 18 or so, Escondido, about 30 miles north of San Diego, I found out years later, blacks can work in Escondido but better be out of town by five PM. LITERALLY.
it took a full hundred years before there were civil rights for blacks after the civil war.
Whites only water fountains, blacks sit in the back of the bus.
It hasn't been that long ago.
My wife's bestie's mom was a realtor and when the subject of blacks buying in Centerburg Ohio, we asked so did you stop blacks from buying? the answer, quote, "We have our ways''.
Then there was Trump in 1975, taken to court because he refused to rent to blacks in his apartment buildings.
So blacks have been suppressed for hundreds of years in the US and Canada, and you don't think that has genetic effects?
I could tell you about my personal multi racial multi cultural family but that is enough of that.

@sonhouse said
@uzless
So the fact blacks would be beaten if found to be learning to read when they were slaves and after they were freed it was hard to get an education that went on to this day, like the brilliant singer/pianist and I mean virtuoso level pianist BESIDES being a great songwriter, was denied entrance to a nice whitey music school for the express reason she was black.
I d ...[text shortened]...
I could tell you about my personal multi racial multi cultural family but that is enough of that.

@uzless
Right, tell that to the blacks that live in this century. Not slavery but the voter repression is as real as it gets, gerrymandering to reduce the effect of black and democrat votes is rife in the republican party. It is how they plan to win no matter what the actual vote would be if it wasn't cheated out of the citizens.
Some of those asssholes even say women should not have the right to vote.
That is not 1920, that is 2024.
It was Trump himself sued for refusing to rent to blacks in 1975, not that long ago.
And it was not that long ago that Nina Simone was refused entry into a top music college because she was black even though she was a frigging GENIUS.
It was not that long ago that my wife's best friend mom who was a realtor when asked about blacks moving in, do you try to stop them? She said 'We have our ways'.
And when I was a kid in 1960 in Escondido California, north of San Diego, blacks could WORK in Escondido but the unwritten rule was get the hell out of town by 5 PM.
Now affirmative action is being killed so whitey can feel safe being on top again.
Slavery may be gone but the left over hatred has never left.

@sonhouse said
@uzless
Right, tell that to the blacks that live in this century. Not slavery but the voter repression is as real as it gets, gerrymandering to reduce the effect of black and democrat votes is rife in the republican party. It is how they plan to win no matter what the actual vote would be if it wasn't cheated out of the citizens.
Some of those asssholes even say women shou ...[text shortened]... tey can feel safe being on top again.
Slavery may be gone but the left over hatred has never left.

@uzless
The whole idea if DEI is about diversity. You exclude blacks, you lower diversity which of course is exactly what folks like the Proud boys want. The ones against DEI are white supremacists hell bent on starting US civil war #2.