We Are A Business Friendly Party!*

*But only if you do what we want you to do and not what is good for your company.

It seems like the next target of the Republicans are large corporations that do not discriminate like the 

Republicans wants them to.

Republican state officials threaten legal action over company diversity policies

Reuters

By Daniel Wiessner

July 13, 2023

A group of Republican U.S. state attorney generals on Thursday warned the country's largest companies that certain workforce diversity policies could be illegal in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision effectively striking down affirmative action in higher education.

The 13 officials in letters sent to the 100 largest U.S. companies said the court last month made clear that any policy that treats people differently because of their race is illegal, even when it is adopted with good intentions.

The attorney generals urged the companies to abandon race-based quotas or preferences in hiring, promotion and contracting and threatened legal action "sooner rather than later" if they do not.

"Companies that engage in racial discrimination should and will face serious legal consequences," the attorney generals wrote.

The officials singled out about a dozen companies that they said have used racial quotas and other explicitly race-based practices, including Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google, Microsoft Corp, and Uber Technologies Corp.

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Proponents of corporate diversity initiatives say that along with creating more equity, they attract better talent and can be good for business when they have support among a company's customer base.

I had to sign non-discrimination policies at work for decades and I have never read any policy that say the company is given any special hiring or promotions based on any protected class, they I had to sign said the opposite that I wouldn’t discriminate.

Then we have Target which is a target on Republican agenda (Sorry, I couldn't resist it.)... talk about an unbusiness like move!

Why Republican lawmakers are going after Target

CNN Business

By Nathaniel Meyersohn

Republicans are escalating their legal threats against Target, pressuring the company to remove merchandise for transgender customers and backtrack on its initiatives to hire minorities and diversify vendors.

In singling out Target, GOP lawmakers and right-wing social media personalities are sending a larger warning to corporate America to roll back recent diversity and inclusion policies, analysts say.

“Target is a high-profile company, one of the biggest, so if you want to make a statement this would have that impact,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and a CNN political analyst.

He said pressure on Target could be an effort for the GOP to appeal to its base. Although there isn’t always a clean political connection with corporate targets, Target in the past has been linked to “coastal upper middle-class America, an alternative to Walmart. So I think this is part of the same anti-Democratic elite rhetoric that we see,” Zelizer said.

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 Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a leading Republican who considered running for president, wrote a letter last week to Target saying the company’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) pledge in 2020 to increase Black employees by 20% and invest more than $2 billion in Black-owned businesses was racially discriminatory.

Target first began its diversity initiatives 20 years ago and added new policies in 2020. But Cotton’s letter came in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that gutted affirmative action in college admissions, saying colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis. Cotton cited the Supreme Court decision in his letter.

So they go after a struggling business in today business climate! All because of the Republican ideology and their fear campaign of selling. And going after them after 20 years!

And then the Attorney Generals lied!

Also last week, Republican attorneys general in seven states wrote to Target warning that merchandise in its Pride month product collection could violate their states’ child protection laws.

The letter followed an anti-LGBTQ campaign against Target that went viral on social media. Fueled by far-right personalities, the anti-trans campaign spread misleading information about the company’s Pride product collection and its business practices. Target subsequently chose to remove certain items that it said caused the most “volatile” reaction from opponents.

Why are they doing this? Isn't obvious?

Hurting brands’ sales and reputations was the stated goal of the campaign against Target: “The goal is to make ‘pride’ toxic for brands,” said right-wing commentator Matt Walsh, who promoted the boycott, on Twitter. “Our campaign is making progress. Let’s keep it going.”

It is all political ideology! It is the 1920s, the 1950s, and the 1970s all over again.

This is just an attempt by the Republicans to stir up anger over a non-existent problem.

The Republican party is the party of cancel culture! They are using the power of the government to attack business and the weaponization of government. Because that is what this is. 

First they came for Disney and we didn't speak up.

Then they came for Apple, but we didn't speak up because we don't have anything like critical race theory.

Then they went after Citigroup, but my business wasn't "Woke."

Then they came for BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, but my business doesn't deal with DEI.

Then they came for my company since we invest in ESG because it is good for business.

So much for being “Business Friendly.”