Who is **** is Robby Starbuck? (1 Viewer)

[Ahlevah]

I follow business news a lot, and recently I’ve noticed a pattern in which some major corporations have downplayed or reduced their participation or alignment with organizations that promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Today, I connected two common threads: corporations that choose to end their participation in the Corporate Equity Index, sponsored by the pro-LGBTQ+ organization Human Rights Campaign, and a gentleman named Robby Starbuck, who seems to harbor a particular animus towards this group.

Earlier this afternoon I noticed that one of my investments, Molson Coors, rose 5.5% on a day in which the Dow Jones Industrials and NASDAQ got clobbered. When I went to see news on the company that could possibly explain why this occurred, the only news item I saw was from MT Newswires saying the company was dropping some corporate diversity programs. Within the body of the article a particular name appeared:

03:37 PM EDT, 09/03/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Molson Coors Beverage (TAP) is scrapping some of its corporate diversity programs, joining other major corporations in pulling back from diversity, equity and inclusion policies, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing a company memo.

The Coors beer maker reportedly told employees that it would no longer tie executive compensation to diversity representation, abandon supplier diversity goals, and end participation in the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index.

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck said that Molson Coors Beverage's decision to implement these changes came after he threatened to expose the company's diversity, equity and inclusion policies, according to a Tuesday post on his X social media account.

Honestly, I had never heard of this guy before today, but I have a feeling this won’t be the last time his name comes up.

 

[VySky]

I follow business news a lot, and recently I’ve noticed a pattern in which some major corporations have downplayed or reduced their participation or alignment with organizations that promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Today, I connected two common threads: corporations that choose to end their participation in the Corporate Equity Index, sponsored by the pro-LGBTQ+ organization Human Rights Campaign, and a gentleman named Robby Starbuck, who seems to harbor a particular animus towards this group.

Earlier this afternoon I noticed that one of my investments, Molson Coors, rose 5.5% on a day in which the Dow Jones Industrials and NASDAQ got clobbered. When I went to see news on the company that could possibly explain why this occurred, the only news item I saw was from MT Newswires saying the company was dropping some corporate diversity programs. Within the body of the article a particular name appeared:





Honestly, I had never heard of this guy before today, but I have a feeling this won’t be the last time his name comes up.

His movement has companies like John Deere, Target and hopefully soon Harley Davidson jettison their DEI bullcrap overboard.

 

[memberya2]

Hes just another right wing grifter that wants to make a name for himself on youtube by copying culture war propaganda.

 

[VySky]

Hes just another right wing grifter that wants to make a name for himself on youtube by copying culture war propaganda.

He's very successful when it comes to getting Americans to put the heat on corporations who have racist DEI agendas.

When he does, they cave

Bud Light, John Deere, Tractor Supply, Target and hopefully soon Harley Davidson.

 

[mrjurrs]

I follow business news a lot, and recently I’ve noticed a pattern in which some major corporations have downplayed or reduced their participation or alignment with organizations that promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Today, I connected two common threads: corporations that choose to end their participation in the Corporate Equity Index, sponsored by the pro-LGBTQ+ organization Human Rights Campaign, and a gentleman named Robby Starbuck, who seems to harbor a particular animus towards this group.

Earlier this afternoon I noticed that one of my investments, Molson Coors, rose 5.5% on a day in which the Dow Jones Industrials and NASDAQ got clobbered. When I went to see news on the company that could possibly explain why this occurred, the only news item I saw was from MT Newswires saying the company was dropping some corporate diversity programs. Within the body of the article a particular name appeared:





Honestly, I had never heard of this guy before today, but I have a feeling this won’t be the last time his name comes up.

R's hate diversity more than they hate equity but they hate inclusion more than anything.

 

[Helix]

I support inclusive policies at work.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

I think it depends on what you’re replacing DEI and “woke” with.

If you mean return to hiring/promoting the White guy I have issue with it.

If you replace it with meritocracy where color, orientation, etc is invisible then I’m down. Basing decisions that effect lives on skin color, creed, orientation, etc is just plain wrong and that wrongness is just as wrong regardless of the color, creed, orientation being favored.

 

[Ahlevah]

I support inclusive policies at work.

When it comes to DEI, I support neutrality.

 

[Juggernaut74]

Today on a very special episode of DP - the OP learns that “correlation doesn’t equal causation”.

Oh who am I kidding - that lesson will likely continue to go unlearned.

 

[Helix]

When it comes to DEI, I support neutrality.

Perhaps equality will eventually be achieved.

 

[Ahlevah]

Perhaps equality will eventually be achieved.

I hope so, but do it the right way: give everyone a fair shake.

 

[brianpatrick]

I hope so, but do it the right way: give everyone a fair shake.

Fair includes historically relevant inequality which has resulted in some people not getting a fair start. If it was a hundred meter race and you had to start twenty meters back, you would end up last every time, unless you were virtually super-human.

 

[Ahlevah]

Today on a very special episode of DP - the OP learns that “correlation doesn’t equal causation”.

Oh who am I kidding - that lesson will likely continue to go unlearned.

I don't know why Molson Coors stock went up 5.5% on a day the Dow dropped 626 points. But since there was no other news, modifying their DEI policies doesn't appear to have hurt.

 

[j brown's body]

He's very successful when it comes to getting Americans to put the heat on corporations who have racist DEI agendas.

When he does, they cave

Bud Light, John Deere, Tractor Supply, Target and hopefully soon Harley Davidson.

Nobody ever went broke catering to the racist impulses of white Americans.

 

[Ahlevah]

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[Ahlevah]

Fair includes historically relevant inequality which has resulted in some people not getting a fair start. If it was a hundred meter race and you had to start twenty meters back, you would end up last every time, unless you were virtually super-human.

So how will we compensate white males in the future who are being discriminated against today?

 

[brianpatrick]

So how will we compensate white males in the future who are being discriminated against today?

White males are not marginalized as a group.
A tiny bit of their unfair advantage has decreased, possibly, but I doubt that will even be a blip on the statistical radar.

 

[Parrish]

He's very successful when it comes to getting Americans to put the heat on corporations who have racist DEI agendas.

When he does, they cave

Bud Light, John Deere, Tractor Supply, Target and hopefully soon Harley Davidson.

What is it with your disdain against people of color, @VySky ?

 

[Ahlevah]

White males are not marginalized as a group.

Who do you think was more marginalized, and why? Kamala Harris or JD Vance?

 

[VySky]

Nobody ever went broke catering to the racist impulses of white Americans.

You don’t say.

 

[brianpatrick]

Who do you think was more marginalized, and why? Kamala Harris or JD Vance?

Neither of them, but they are individuals not groups. Statistics has nothing to say about individuals. We can find individual examples of anything, but doing so doesn’t say anything about us as a society or culture. It just makes for good stories.

 

[Ahlevah]

Neither of them, but they are individuals not groups. Statistics has nothing to say about individuals. We can find individual examples of anything, but doing so doesn’t say anything about us as a society or culture. It just makes for good stories.

So how many individuals can you discriminate against before they become a group?

 

[brianpatrick]

So how many individuals can you discriminate against before they become a group?

According to statistics, as many as it takes to become statistically relevant. Maybe there’s a formula for that. There probably is, but I don’t know it. I just know that white men are not statistically marginalized in the US, and never have been. This means that they have accumulated generational wealth and the privilege that inherently comes with that, unlike some other groups.

Honestly, “protecting the white race” is not necessary and has never been. It’s a political idea, and almost all political ideas are bullshit, and not what they purport to be. They work because they play on our base instincts. They are agenda driven and detrimental to society at large, good only at self-perpetuation of the political apparatus.

 

[brianpatrick]

What is it with your disdain against people of color, @VySky ?

Many conservatives are scared temperamentally and don’t know why. It’s easy to blame “the other” than face the truth of their own fear. Some of them double down and buy lots of guns. Some hide their heads in a church.

 

[Deuce]

I hope so, but do it the right way: give everyone a fair shake.

The problem is that right wing dipshits think that DEI means things go from fair to unfair. They have this incredibly stupid idea that employers hire on merit and it's that terrible terrible government forcing them to hire the less capable, whom coincidentally are always not white