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The Independent UK
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Io Dodds

Walmart becomes latest business to pull back from DEI policies after conservative pressure campaign

Walmart will stop using the terms DEI and LatinX in official communications and stop requiring suppliers to provide ‘certain demographic data’ as part of its supplier diversity program - (AP)

Walmart is cutting back its diversity programs after a conservative activist threatened to call a boycott days before Black Friday.

Robby Starbuck, a former music video director who campaigns against corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, said on Monday that he had persuaded the US retail giant to end a raft of "woke policies" such as providing racial equity training to its workers and funding anti-racist non-profits.

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