In the wake of recent Supreme Court rulings against race-based preferences and actions by the Trump administration to enforce those court decisions, activists are taking a new approach to try to force companies to implement a social justice agenda, a recent report states.
“Lawsuits are increasingly used not to compensate victims or resolve individual disputes, but to impose Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) mandates that activists have struggled to enact through the legislative process,” conservative advocacy group Alliance for Consumers states in a July report.
The report cites multi-million-dollar settlements against firms including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Google, the Walt Disney Company, and Abercrombie & Fitch that compelled the companies to put in place a DEI infrastructure that included various long-term diversity initiatives….