Paramount becomes latest company to roll over on DEI initiatives
Paramount has followed the lead of Disney, Meta, and more in gutting its deeply-held-when-convenient devotion to diversity.
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The last few months have been a not-especially-pleasant reminder that major corporations don’t have principles so much as they have fashion statements; since the election, and especially the inauguration, we’ve all watched companies like Meta, Disney, Walmart, Target, and more race to see who can capitulate the most, the quickest, to the Trump White House in an effort to receive belly scritches from the new administration. That’s especially come in the form of massive attacks on these organizations’ own diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, which were, when it was politically fashionable, touted as core parts of their corporate identities—and which are now being stripped out of said identity as quickly as some poor marketing schmuck can delete the relevant paragraphs. We can now add Paramount to the list of companies rolling over on this front, as The New York Times reports that the media giant is “rethinking its approach to diversity, equity and inclusion” in ways that seem to involve never using those words again in public.