Paramount ends DEI policies, cites Trump executive order
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Paramount Global announced it is ending numerous diversity, equity and inclusion policies to comply with President Trump's executive order banning the practice.

If you do decide to cancel your Paramount+ subscription after hearing about this (as I did), just remember to write how you feel about this decision when they ask you that you comment your reason for doing this 🙂

  • themoken@startrek.websiteEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    I dunno how to interpret this honestly. On its face this reflects poorly on Paramount, but we live in an oligarchy and I don’t really blame them for trying to avoid pissing off the volatile baby that runs this country when DEI can still be achieved without using that terminology directly.

    Is there evidence that this division of their corporation was actually doing anything different than before the term DEI even existed? Or that Paramount has current issues with diversity?

    • haverholm@kbin.earth
      4·
      3 days ago

      I will give Paramount the benefit of the doubt — though briefly — and expect them to implement an IDIC policy instead. 🖖

      • jcriecke@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        If we could get maga chuds all hot and bothered over corporations implementing idic policies I would consider it a great success. “Did you hear? They got rid of dei but just renamed it idic. You should be mad about it.” Then watch them start melting down over Vulcan philosophy, denouncing Surak (I bet we could get them to be anti-Surak if we didn’t mention his origins). Maybe we could get them to schism and leave the planet in protest!

    • Akuchimoya@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      DEI can still be achieved without using that terminology directly.

      I agree that not longer having a policy or metrics around diversity doesn’t mean that the people in a company won’t still value it. I’m a part-time student and the school’s director recently did an AMA. He said an upcoming event was renamed to avoid the threats that are being directed at “DEI”, but the event itself is still about cultural diversity. I forget what the new name was, something about the stories of our people or something like that.

      • themoken@startrek.websiteEnglish
        31·
        4 days ago

        Exactly. DEI as a term is just a lightning rod for idiots at the moment so maybe you just publicly stop calling it that and keep everything else the same.