The Kraft Heinz Co.’s diversity goals for hiring multicultural employees are “not quotas,” the food and condiment maker’s board of directors told shareholders on Friday. Kraft Heinz’s Diversity, Equity and Belonging initiative aims to have 30% of its salaried U.S. employees be “people of color” and 50% of its global management positions be filled by women by 2025.
Corporate America’s panicked embrace of “equity” in the summer of 2020 isn’t going to end well for anyone, most particularly the companies that have embraced it the hardest.
Following an investigation into allegations of discrimination, the city manager fired police chief Larry Scirotto, the first openly gay police chief in the department, according to The New York Post.
The details follow the now-familiar pattern and further underscore the central truth: There are only two ways for Facebook and other social-media companies to avoid rampant and crippling discrimination. Either they need to get out of “content moderation” entirely, or they must ensure that their moderators think like America as well as looking like it. There is no third way.
I think I’ve finally found a policy position on which left and right can heartily agree. The legislation, regulation and protections that have given us the too-big-to-fail banks are impossibly broken, and must be replaced. Aside from their appalling economic consequences, they have created arrogant, mendacious and lawless institutions run by people who have earned billions while taxpayers protected them from their own failures.
