A Donald Trump supporter yells at demonstrators outside of Madison Square Garden as Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump makes a campaign appearance on October 27, 2024, in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:900px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1732763765194AFP__20241104__2181395029__v4__HighRes__TrumpRallyAtMadisonSquareGarden.jpg" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">A Donald Trump supporter yells at demonstrators outside of Madison Square Garden as Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump makes a campaign appearance on October 27, 2024, in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>WASHINGTON — America&#x27;s largest private employer, Walmart, is the latest name to join a list of US businesses and institutions rethinking programs to bolster minority groups as support for progressive policies erodes.</p><p>Walmart said it will phase out the terms &quot;diversity, equity and inclusion&quot; (DEI) and &quot;Latinx,&quot; end supplier diversity programs, shutter a racial equity center and pull out of a prominent gay rights index.</p><p>The announcement comes in the wake of similar moves by a string of prestige brands -- from Ford, John Deere and Lowe&#x27;s to Harley-Davidson and Jack Daniel&#x27;s -- reflecting a backlash against so-called political correctness in American public life.</p><p>The rightward shift is credited in part for populist Donald Trump&#x27;s White House comeback and for laying the groundwork for a 2023 Supreme Court ruling ending affirmative action in college admissions.</p><p>DEI initiatives aim to right historical discrimination but conservatives have long criticized them as unfairly targeting white people, particularly men, as well as being performative &quot;virtue-signaling.&quot;</p><p>Anti-DEI activist Robby Starbuck, who lobbied Walmart before its announcement, celebrated the &quot;biggest win yet for our movement to end wokeness in corporate America&quot; and noted that the company&#x27;s stock had risen 2.1 percent.</p><p>&quot;Our movement is a force in the market. Go woke, go broke actually has meaning now,&quot; he posted on X.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2024/11/24/trump-s-top-team-firebrands-and-stalwarts-1039">Trump&#x27;s top team: Firebrands and stalwarts</a></div><div><strong>&#x27;DOWN EVERYBODY&#x27;S THROATS&#x27;  </strong></div><p>Starbuck, 35, told AFP in an interview before Trump&#x27;s November 5 victory over Democrat Kamala Harris -- who was criticized for previous &quot;woke&quot; policy positions -- that ordinary Americans were sick of inclusivity and diversity policies at US companies.</p><p>&quot;People are entitled to their views, and we need to have a system that creates equal footing for everybody and doesn&#x27;t force any one ideology down everybody&#x27;s throats,&quot; he said.</p><p>Emboldened by Trump&#x27;s campaign pledges to end &quot;wokeness,&quot; conservative groups have been filing numerous lawsuits targeting corporate and federal programs aimed at elevating minorities and women.</p><p>Trump himself focused mostly on political correctness that he says is infecting the nation&#x27;s classrooms, promising executive orders to cut federal funding schools pushing critical race theory and &quot;transgender insanity.&quot;</p><p>The president-elect has surrounded himself with anti-woke allies of all stripes, including his incoming deputy policy chief Stephen Miller, whose America First Legal group has targeted corporate diversity.</p><p>The military has been the main target of anti-woke crusaders in the US Congress, who argue that racial justice education and an obsession with climate change have made the troops go soft and driven a recruitment slump.</p><p>Republican lawmakers who spent much of the last congressional session locked in a war with Pentagon leaders on political-correctness were rewarded with Trump&#x27;s pick to lead the defense department&#x27;s workforce of three million -- anti-DEI Fox News host Pete Hegseth.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2024/11/28/trump-tariffs-would-kill-400-000-us-jobs-mexico-warns-0832">Trump tariffs would kill 400,000 US jobs, Mexico warns</a><br/><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2024/11/27/canada-s-trudeau-urges-unity-on-trump-s-tariff-threat-1053">Canada&#x27;s Trudeau urges unity on Trump&#x27;s tariff threat</a></div><div><strong>&#x27;WE AREN&#x27;T PERFECT&#x27;</strong></div><p>Conservative activists hailed 2023 as a landmark year in America&#x27;s never-ending culture wars, when the conservative-majority Supreme Court ended affirmative action in university admissions, reversing a major gain of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.</p><p>Conservative groups pounced on the ruling to fight all manner of diversity programs in court.</p><p>And in March, the University of Florida ended DEI programs and related jobs as part of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis&#x27;s offensive against &quot;woke ideology&quot; -- joining campuses in around a dozen other states.</p><p>Workers are divided on the merits of DEI, with a slowly-growing share saying their company pays too much attention to the issue -- 19 percent in an October Pew Research Center poll compared with 14 percent in the same survey in February 2023.</p><p>But a new poll of 1,300 employees from business think tank The Conference Board, showed a robust 58 percent indicating that their organization devotes the appropriate level of effort on DEI.</p><p>&quot;Leaders should focus on what really matters for their workforce amid the noise, as these initiatives are crucial for attracting and retaining current and future talent,&quot; said Allan Schweyer, the group&#x27;s principal Researcher for human capital. </p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2024/11/28/trump-seeks-to-have-civil-fraud-ruling-quashed-0833">Trump seeks to have civil fraud ruling quashed</a></div><div><strong>—By Frankie Taggart, Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/upTQyI_hVUs?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>The rightward shift is credited in part for populist Donald Trump's White House comeback and for laying the groundwork for a 2023 Supreme Court ruling ending affirmative action in college admissions.</p>

The rightward shift is credited in part for populist Donald Trump's White House comeback and for laying the groundwork for a 2023 Supreme Court ruling ending affirmative action in college admissions.

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'Anti-woke' Americans hail 'death' of 'diversity, inclusion' policies as another domino topples

'Anti-woke' Americans hail 'death' of 'diversity, inclusion' policies as another domino topples

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