Bud, Target and now Chick-fil-a

[Oscar77]

https://shop.chick-fil-a.com/?_gl=1*...DMzMi42MC4wLjA.

Exactly:
How is selling items in the same color as the various favors Chick-filet offers somehow a LBGQ etc deal?
I mean is BBQ or Sriracha sauce color some how connected to the LBQ etc movement?
What about "Garden Herb Ranch?"

[hollohas]

I said they were weird colors, not LGBT colors. I was questioning their business decision of selling CLOTHES as well as their new DEI mission and interest in commie social credit scores.

Question a company's marketing strategy as something that doesn't follow their own best practices and somehow that translates to boycott?

Try looking at this a little deeper than typical outrage/boycott/triggered/hurt feeling nonsense. Looking for actual conversations about the fact that so many companies continue to make these decisions regardless of the fact everyone knows they're not good for business. If these companies aren't interested in the health of the business, what are they interested in? If they do think they are good for business, what dipshits convinced them?

Chick-fil-A consumers simply don't care about social credit scores. Chick-fil-A customers don't care if the company's mission is DEI. They care about decent food and friendly service. Why are companies so interested in focusing on DEI and commie scoring when their customers don't give a shit about that stuff?

[Rooskibar03]

Try looking at this a little deeper than typical outrage/boycott/triggered/hurt feeling nonsense. Looking for actual conversations about the fact that so many companies continue to make these decisions regardless of the fact everyone knows they're not good for business. If these companies aren't interested in the health of the business, what are they interested in? If they do think they are good for business, what dipshits convinced them?

It's all about the corporate ESG score. 3 investment firms control over 20 Trillion dollars and represent 90% of the businesses that appear on S&P. (yes I know CFA isn't publicly traded). The ESG score applies massive pressure to a board, including mandatory reporting and requirements for diversity of the boards. Failure to bend the knee results in downgrading of stock, investment and capital restrictions, etc.

It's not about the customers, its about being able to do business.

[3beansalad]

USAA is another private company no one seems to be talking about. They have a very detailed DEI page on their site.

[eddiememphis]

The Atlantic, of all places, has an article "THE DEI INDUSTRY NEEDS TO CHECK ITS PRIVILEGE".

So even the far left is seeing that DEI has gone too far.

I think transmania shall soon drop from favor having run it's course.


The link is to Apple news. The Atlantic is behind a paywall.

https://apple.news/A7aa_jmi3S9GFXvf7a5nTrw

News outlets such as The New York Times and New York magazine are publishing more articles that cover the industry with skepticism. And DEI practitioners themselves are raising concerns about how their competitors operate.

However, the worst of the DEI industry is expensive and runs from useless to counterproductive. And even people who highly value diversity and inclusion should feel queasy about the DEI gold rush that began in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. A poor Black man’s death became a pretext to sell hazily defined consulting services to corporations, as if billions in outlays, mostly among relatively privileged corporate workers, was an apt and equitable response.

[hollohas]

Wow. That's ^ actually surprising.

Maybe we're reaching a turnaround point?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...taskforce.html

The University of?North Carolina's medical school has disbanded its?diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) taskforce and will not implement any of its recommendations.

The institution had previously banned DEI statements for admissions, hiring, promotions, and tenures.?Before this, the medical school required applicants to submit a statement detailing their commitment to DEI.?

The task force's recommendations included that students understand concepts such as 'Understanding that America's medical system is structurally racist' and 'Understanding and Responding to Microaggressions.'

UNC's decision comes after the activist group Color Us United, which advocates for a 'race blind America,' campaigned for the university to axe its DEI policies for medical school staff and students.?

Kenny Xu, the organization's president, told DailyMail on Thursday the decision is significant because UNC is the first medical school to revoke a DEI taskforce

'UNC was the first to publicly see the harms of the diversity equity and inclusion movement that claims that America is a racist country,' he said.

'Mandatory unconscious bias trainings, racially discriminatory admissions all lowered the standards for high quality doctors. And we we found it important that they make a public pronouncement against it.'

[OldFogey]

Whatever. Ultimately, vote with your wallet. It is the only vote that truly matters anymore.

[MED]

The Atlantic, of all places, has an article "THE DEI INDUSTRY NEEDS TO CHECK ITS PRIVILEGE".

So even the far left is seeing that DEI has gone too far.

I think transmania shall soon drop from favor having run it's course.


The link is to Apple news. The Atlantic is behind a paywall.

https://apple.news/A7aa_jmi3S9GFXvf7a5nTrw

News outlets such as The New York Times and New York magazine are publishing more articles that cover the industry with skepticism. And DEI practitioners themselves are raising concerns about how their competitors operate.

However, the worst of the DEI industry is expensive and runs from useless to counterproductive. And even people who highly value diversity and inclusion should feel queasy about the DEI gold rush that began in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. A poor Black man’s death became a pretext to sell hazily defined consulting services to corporations, as if billions in outlays, mostly among relatively privileged corporate workers, was an apt and equitable response.

The crazy in the 60s faded out and this will too. The pendulum always swings back to center at least on the surface. The crazy will fade. The worry is the communist undertones in our country; the subversiveness is infecting everything; it is very much a cancer. Good to see that some people are calling out EDI for what it is.

[Fentonite]

Whatever. Ultimately, vote with your wallet. It is the only vote that truly matters anymore.

One has to prioritize conviction over convenience for that to occur. When we prioritize the easy path over the conviction of our beliefs, evil wins.

[Aloha_Shooter]

The crazy in the 60s faded out and this will too. The pendulum always swings back to center at least on the surface. The crazy will fade. The worry is the communist undertones in our country; the subversiveness is infecting everything; it is very much a cancer. Good to see that some people are calling out EDI for what it is.

The problem is that it never swings back to fully center. The crazy of the 60s swung back to left of center, the crazy of the 90s swung back further to the left of center. I think the crazy of the 20s is going to center on what would have been viewed as extreme leftist just 20 years ago.