Orphan-crushing machine refuses to accelerate crushing orphans is a now feel good story yet again.

It's not that it's such a great act in itself, it's no where near enough.

But.
This is a significant win as a large, profitable and respected company is seen to be doing something so insignificant and get such good marketing results. This is the best kind of encouragement we can give to the souless retail machine 😉 And yes... "We will sing your praises if you just follow basic laws" is a pretty low bar, but here we are 😄

A cartoon where a corporation is doing the absolute bare minimum to fight racism.

They'll find a way to fuck it up, I'm sure

Costco is the only one

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Programs, most often hiring, promoting those values

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion

Questions against it is usually bigoted. It seemed to be the popular MAGA dogwhistle this election.

American History X has a scene about it, although racists were programmed with different words 30 years ago.

The shareholder is a group called "National Center for Public Policy Research", a far right organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco#Ownership

Oops. All Private Equity.

This for all shareholders, all the time. Their laws might care about the corporate veil but we don't.

Is it propaganda, though? How about we celebrate the few nice things going for us and just enjoy it for a second. We should be praising this regardless of our ideals because the world is very far from ideal.

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion.

Yes, DEI is just the new name for "stop discriminating against non-white males"