{"id":88801,"date":"2024-11-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88801"},"modified":"2024-11-26T22:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T04:22:31","slug":"i-was-told-there-would-be-pouncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88801","title":{"rendered":"I Was Told There Would Be Pouncing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While this is good &#8211; and expected &#8211; news, I feel a little cheated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Walmart, the world\u2019s largest retailer, is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining a list of major corporations that have been under pressure by conservative activists. The company confirmed on Monday to The Associated Press th&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j3oiq5I7VR\">https:\/\/t.co\/j3oiq5I7VR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KSTP (@KSTP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSTP\/status\/1861248775445995988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies are ditching DEI because it&#8217;s bad for the bottom line; they can practice equality without flogging &#8220;equity&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But notice how it&#8217;s framed: &#8220;under pressure from conservative activists&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if you&#8217;re going to &#8220;blame&#8221; companies&#8217; rediscovering economic and social sanity on people like me, and least call it &#8220;pouncing&#8221;, for fox&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this is good &#8211; and expected &#8211; news, I feel a little cheated. Companies are ditching DEI because it&#8217;s bad for the bottom line; they can practice equality without flogging &#8220;equity&#8221;.\u00a0 But notice how it&#8217;s framed: &#8220;under pressure from conservative activists&#8221;.\u00a0 I mean, if you&#8217;re going to &#8220;blame&#8221; companies&#8217; rediscovering economic and social sanity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68,18,374,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-pc","category-social-justice","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88802,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88801\/revisions\/88802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}