Submitted 1 day ago by quarklover123@lemmy.world to startrek@startrek.website
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/27/paramount-ends-dei-policies-cites-trump-executive-order.html
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 🙂
“Investigate” private companies for what? This sounds like the setup for the Un-White Activities commission.
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.
Welp. Time to complete my pirated Trek collection 🤷♀️
Paramount ends DEI policies, cites Trump executive order
Sorry, should I have titled this post as this? 🫢 I’m new here
Welcome, feel free to look around, mingle, have fun 🖖
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.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 day ago
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:
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.
quarklover123@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I (username @quarklover123) had no idea there was a comunity named c/quarks lol
Joining
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 day ago
Sounds great - it’s sort of our “not directly about Star Trek, but maybe the people who like this instance would be interested” community.