Less than two weeks ago, Target announced it was retreating from its DEI push. Target isn’t the first or the biggest company to do that recently but it probably is one of the most outspokenly progressive. Remember it was only in 2023 that Target prompted a backlash with some of its Pride-theme merchandise. By the following year they were taking a very different approach though. So Target’s decision to abandon DEI seems to have been part of a political walk back to the center after it moved hard left in 2020.
Target was one of corporate America’s most forceful supporters of diversity and inclusion initiatives and vowed to support Black Americans in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by police in Target’s home city of Minneapolis in 2020. But less than five years later, Target has dialed back its high-profile DEI program…
Target recently announced…
