UnspecificGravity

Yep. These practices were not adopted because corporations are nice people that wanted to help improve society. They were implemented because they are good at identifying talent at bargain prices.

Target actually has an entire surveillance and video forensic side business based in Minneapolis that works closely with Federal law enforcement and almost certainly worked directly with ICE and their operations in Minneapolis and is likely why they were exceptionally aggressive in that city.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/01/29/retailer-target-branches-out-into-police-work-span-classbankheadminneapolis-forensics-lab-donations-help-law-enforcement-agenciesspan/32273b10-40fa-4db4-a4a1-88b77eafb891/

https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/the-hidden-side-of-target-surveillance-policing-and-a-call-for-scrutiny/

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/237917.pdf

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-25/how-target-tgt-police-surveilled-black-neighbors-in-inner-cities

Target is the tip of the fucking spear when it comes to fascist corporate/state law enforcement collaboration. They are NOT on our side and never have been.

Most, if not all, large corporations are inherently evil. Target is exceptional in that they have made a deliberate choice to make evil a core element of their business operations.

Companies didn’t adopt DEI to “go woke” they adopted it because it gave them access to a larger talent pool, which was often cheaper because they had not previously been recognized and therefore didn’t have the work history to command higher wages. There was always a business case to be made for this kind of program and its why it was so broadly implemented.

No one abandoned programs like this because they were costly or harmful, the only companies that did so were trying to score political points with jerks. And the outcome of that is pretty predictable.

How? Its the DOJs job to defend against claims. Without evidence of that happening its just Trump settling a case with himself, which is what we all knew happened, but now they have positive evidence that it did. The absence of DOJ involvement IS the evidence of a crime here.

In this case, putting it into writing would have been the way to hide it being a crime.