3w ago

Have you guys heard this about Paramount

www.cnbc.com Paramount ends DEI policies, cites Trump executive order

Paramount Global announced it is ending numerous diversity, equity and inclusion policies to comply with President Trump's executive order banning the practice.

If you do decide to cancel your Paramount+ subscription after hearing about this (as I did), just remember to write how you feel about this decision when they ask you that you comment your reason for doing this 🙂

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Normally, this would be more of a c/quarks post, but fuck it, this is important.
It sucks.
All the major American media companies have done this, but that's not an excuse. It still sucks.
If there's any hope at all (and I'm not completely convinced that there is), it's in statements like this:
To be the best storytellers and to continue to drive success, we must have a highly talented, dedicated and creative workforce that reflects the perspectives and experiences of our many different audiences. Values like inclusivity and collaboration are a part of the Paramount culture and will continue to be.
That might be an indication that the policies themselves are sort of still in place, but under a different name. However, if they're discontinuing all metrics related to it, there will be no real way to know whether their "values" have a significant impact.
- I (username @quarklover123) had no idea there was a community named c/quarks lol
  Joining
  
  Sounds great - it's sort of our "not directly about Star Trek, but maybe the people who like this instance would be interested" community.

Welp. Time to complete my pirated Trek collection 🤷‍♀️

Never had a subscription because every time they've had a free trial, and I tried to use it, the fucker didn't work. You know what worked, though? Piracy.

Paramount ends DEI policies, cites Trump executive order
Paramount Global is ending several diversity, equity and inclusion policies related to data collection and staffing.
The company cited President Donald Trump’s executive order banning DEI in the government and directing agencies to probe private companies over their programs.
Fellow media giant Comcast is under investigation by the federal government for its DEI policies.
- Sorry, should I have titled this post as this? 🫢 I'm new here
  
  Welcome, feel free to look around, mingle, have fun 🖖

"Investigate" private companies for what? This sounds like the setup for the Un-White Activities commission.

aaaand this is why I'm glad I haven't paid for media for a very long time.

I saw it on Blue sky a while ago and instantly unsubbed and said it was because I support DEI policies.

I dunno how to interpret this honestly. On its face this reflects poorly on Paramount, but we live in an oligarchy and I don't really blame them for trying to avoid pissing off the volatile baby that runs this country when DEI can still be achieved without using that terminology directly.
Is there evidence that this division of their corporation was actually doing anything different than before the term DEI even existed? Or that Paramount has current issues with diversity?
- DEI can still be achieved without using that terminology directly.
  I agree that not longer having a policy or metrics around diversity doesn't mean that the people in a company won't still value it. I'm a part-time student and the school's director recently did an AMA. He said an upcoming event was renamed to avoid the threats that are being directed at "DEI", but the event itself is still about cultural diversity. I forget what the new name was, something about the stories of our people or something like that.
  
  Exactly. DEI as a term is just a lightning rod for idiots at the moment so maybe you just publicly stop calling it that and keep everything else the same.
- I will give Paramount the benefit of the doubt — though briefly — and expect them to implement an IDIC policy instead. 🖖
  
  If we could get maga chuds all hot and bothered over corporations implementing idic policies I would consider it a great success. "Did you hear? They got rid of dei but just renamed it idic. You should be mad about it." Then watch them start melting down over Vulcan philosophy, denouncing Surak (I bet we could get them to be anti-Surak if we didn't mention his origins). Maybe we could get them to schism and leave the planet in protest!

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