Summary
Costco’s board rejected a shareholder proposal to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, arguing they foster respect, innovation, and cultural alignment with customers and employees.
Shareholders claimed DEI could lead to lawsuits citing “illegal discrimination” against white, Asian, male, or straight employees, referencing legal cases like Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
Costco countered that its DEI efforts comply with the law and enhance its culture, rejecting claims of legal risk.
The proposal will be voted on at Costco’s January 23 shareholder meeting.
Are we really going to rehash the debate people have had for decades whenever the subject comes up where we pretend people aren’t considering white people’s skin color when they’re interviewed? You think they just all happen to get hired purely on merit? You think women aren’t treated differently than men too and men are just naturally attuned to executive roles?
We can’t get people to stop doing these things, so we educate folks about these issues in the hopes that they can make up for internal biases. DEI is not affirmative action, despite your attempts to equate them. It’s education. It’s about creating a more equitable workforce through making them more aware of these biases and blockers to marginalized groups’ advancement. It isn’t a hiring quota.
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So is this bait or are you just actually that bigoted? Let’s stop the bullshit and be clear lol
Anyway to reiterate: DEI =/= Affirmative Action or hiring quotas. I’m glad you can see that now.
So this has nothing to do with the race/gender/minority checkboxes on job applications that automatically get you an interview? That’s the sort of shit I disagree with.
Yes I really think men are more naturally inclined to do executive type roles. Men and women aren’t the same.
And yes I think that people are hired on their ability to do the job first and foremost. The thing is that white people are more advantaged in society when it comes to acquiring said skills to do said jobs but that’s an entirely different problem.
No that’s not DEI. You have no clue what it is yet you so vehemently oppose it. Again, it is not about applications and interviews. It is not a hiring quota. It is not affirmative action. It’s educating people on discrimination. It is not any sort of hiring mandate. It’s just learning, something conservatives find too vile to participate in these days because they might accidentally learn they have a wrong opinion or maybe the world doesn’t work how they think it does.
Your views on sex and gender are incredibly problematic. Having a dick doesn’t inherently make you a better leader. Having white skin does not either. This is an opinion rooted in bigotry. You are being racist/sexist. And that’s ok so long as you learn and grow and choose to become better than that. Many of us were bigots at one point - hell we all still are to some degree, it’s hard to truly be 100% not bigoted. Honestly it’s impossible! But it’s about growth. It’s about doing what we can to limit our contribution to the problem.
I think that white people have better opportunities to get educated etc. Not that they are inherently better. Being born into a poor family is obviously going to present you with less opportunities. That’s a whole different problem unrelated to hiring practices though.
Yeah men do make better leaders as we have seen all throughout human history. Queens were far more likely to wage war than kings, one example. Men and women are more different than they are the same. Not superior/inferior; just different.
just a reminder that this all started as your hatred for DEI which you did not understand. Do you still oppose it?
I guess I am opposed to Affirmative Action?
I’m just gonna be blunt, I don’t think you understand the topic of workplace discrimination. If you can’t even parse DEI and demographically-driven hiring quotas it’s hard to take your broader opinions on discrimination in the workplace seriously. That’s like arguing about computers and thinking a hard drive and ram serve the same function because they both involve “memory.” You fundamentally misunderstand these systems.
I don’t really know how this jives with what you just wrote.
Edit; you added a new section that honesty is just you trying to have your cake and eat it too
Top 20 jobs held by men and women are the same list today as it was 100 years ago prior to feminism. Men tend to do certain jobs and women tend to do other jobs. This has rang true all throughout human history. It’s nothing to do with prejudice against women.