Summary

Costco shareholders voted overwhelmingly (98%) against a proposal by a conservative think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research, to assess risks linked to the company's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Costco’s board supported DEI initiatives, dismissing the proposal as partisan and unnecessary.

This rejection contrasts with trends in other companies scaling back DEI efforts.

The vote comes amid new federal rules from Trump targeting DEI initiatives in federal agencies, potentially impacting private vendors working with the government.

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[+] -62 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The gulags were populated for good reason. "Waaahhh communists killed millions in their gulags," yeah, millions of Nazis. Yet apparently that still wasn't enough.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Buddy, I'm with you on Communists being antifascist, but the gulags are not something to be praised. Many innocent people were sent there for simply displeasing Stalin in some way.

    Yes, WW2 would have been much longer and likely unwinnable without Soviet involvement, but praising the Gulags is just picking which concentration camp you like best.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Stalin should've gone to the gulags.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol no, they killed literal civilians, the ones they swore to protect

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  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's because they didn't put enough fascists in the gulags, including the ones that turned on their own people and put them in the gulags.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is that who you think Stalin put in them...? Really?

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah he should've put himself in there too while he was at it. America didn't put any fascists in gulags though, they hired them to help fascists continue the fight and they've been winning ever since.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Were the over 1.5 million Red Army POWs that had spent years in Nazi camps before Stalin decided they were traitors for getting captured and put in gulags for it all fascists?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Interesting how you didn't mention that Stalin also sent a huge number of Jews to the gulags.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_of_Jews_in_the_Soviet_interior_during_World_War_II#Camp_routines_and_conditions

    What was the good reason for that?

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