Accenture is an Irish consultancy firm that did the same.
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Is it actually an Irish company, or just one of those Irish companies in the same way Apple is an Irish company?
You’re right: https://diversity.com/post/accenture-dei-rollback-2025
It’s a similar timeline too (~2025). I honestly think it’s very pathetic of them to stoop so low for the “Yankee dollar” (or any other trade relationship).
Even though I have reservations about US-style DEI initiatives (I'd much prefer France's way of not recording ethnicity, race, religion etc), I do find Trump admin's policies to be beyond absurd and stupid of just nuking everything.
The good news though is that fascists typically shoot themselves on the foot and end up destroying themselves because their decisions are based on emotions. There is quite literally neither rhyme nor reason. If one reads into Nazi and fascist policies and institutions, they don't make any sense whatsoever. Nazi Germany was actually on the brink of self-made bankruptcy by excessive overspending, until Hitler declared war to delay the inevitable by plundering the resources of Europe. Eventually, American fascism will just end up eating itself.
The problem with France s approach (as I understand it) is that by not recording ethnicity data, employers have free rein to discriminate if the persons background becomes known to them during the hiring process. Discrimination is rife because of this and they lack sufficient data and regulations to tackle it.
Studies have been carried out which send crafted resumes of different ethnicities to employers to assess callback rates. https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/discrimination-hiring-and-anonymous-cvs-france-cv-anonymes
I hope you’re right about US fascism. But while the U.S. President is an impulsive man child, his puppeteers are a lot smarter and more committed. We also have greater wealth inequality compared to WWII giving these guys a bigger advantage this time.
Not buying from companies that bow to MAGA racism.
Also, I'm still waiting for bricks made from recycled plastic rather than new oil.
I am not trying to invalidate your comment, but saying that is like trying to boycott goods and services from China.
Give it a couple more years and they'll be making Noah's Ark and Golgotha play sets. Oligarchs have no shame about virtue signaling to whoever holds the brass ring.
Really Denmark?
The oligarchy transcends borders
That's what they are doing. I am amazed that no one from outside has yet pointed finger and warned about Heritage Foundation's attempt to influence Europe. They want to see the world burn, literally.
money is fungible
Profits before ethics.
Shame, I expected better of them.
LEGO: No guns
STAR WARS: These are blasters
LEGO: OK. Give us the money.
Oriental Expedition had guns. Pistols and rifles.
The Pirate theme had guns.
Exo-Force was literally riddled with guns.
Indians Jones...
The "No Guns!" rule is more like a loose suggestion.
My understanding was that it was a "no modern weapons" thing. That is, pre-1900 weapons were "acceptable", hence why the pirates and wild west sets could have guns, but the police sets do not. To my (absolutely non-expert) knowledge, Indiana Jones sets only had revolvers, a pre-1900 technology. As I recall, there was a bit of controversy when they released the Sopwith Camel (a WWI-era fighter plane, i.e. post-1900) set with machine guns on it.
The Star Wars sets have fantasy weapons, not real modern weapons. Why that or a revolver should be seen as meaningfully different from a modern gun is, evidently, left as an exercise for the consumer. In any case, clearly the stricture has been relaxed over the years.
They also release DC and Marvel sets with guns. Sure, the super villains have fantasy weapons, but the goons have pistols and uzis.
It's a weird and arbitrary line to draw anyways, if they really do at the 1900s. Bullet go swoosh and person dead. Doesn't matter if it's a cowboy rifle.
It's also weird they're fine with swords, maces, warhammers, spears, crossbows, and pole-arms since they're literal weapons made for murder, dismemberment, gutting, and otherwise turning a human into human't.
It's funny with Bionicle back in 2001 because you have this warrior of fire with a flaming sword that is described as being able to lay waste and cause devastation at an impressive scale, but nope. Oh no. That's not a weapon, that's a "Toa tool".
Then 2006 came along and even Bionicles were given straight up guns.
Lego's had guns and other weapons since waaaay before they started making Star Wars sets.
I think they've reached the point of being a huge corporation where they no longer have any morals beyond whatever makes them money. They sell pride sets when acceptance is profitable, and now they're cool with giving JK Rowling money to hurt trans people if it means they'll see a few bucks from it.
Fuck Lego. What does the k'nex annual report say?
K’nex appear to be owned by “Basic Fun!”, a U.S. company. Unlike LEGO I can’t find any social obligations that they’ve committed to in the past. https://www.basicfun.com/about/
Lego is an anti-family company.
If they suddenly care what Americans think they should just go ahead and rename the system “legos”.
😂
Grand. That means this thing will probably be a real product within a decade. 😩
It's a sort of anti Brussels effect, I suppose: When fascism has infected the US, it starts spreading everywhere else, too.
While I’m 100% in favor of diversity and inclusion, I think there was a bit of a fever over it in corporate land over the last several years. I also don’t think it actually amounted to a whole lot. I’m not one of those people who got sick of hearing about it, or complained about it, but I’m also not sorry to see most of it go. It doesn’t mean discrimination is back on the menu. It’s hard to describe how much performative crap was happening. Just doing cartwheels to show how inclusive we are. We literally had sensitivity training that told us to stop using the phrase “long time no see,” because some might construe it as a mocking imitation of a Native American stereotype speech. I mean seriously, you can’t tell me it’s either THAT or FASCISM with nothing between.
My response to this is always...Putin really needs to die
Ah yes all the dastardly Russians fault.
Come on dude, the US does not need any help being a fascist hellhole. Their fascism is homegrown
More astroturfed than homemade, but yeah. I mean Hitler cited Ford as an inspiration and gave him an award in 1940 something. It's been gross for a long time.
This isn't going anywhere. Climate change will make sure of that.
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Another company that doesn't need to, cow-towing to the cowardly cunt in the White House. Or is it the kitsch Gold House now?
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There's 2 things in this world that I hate. Intolerance for other people and the Danes.
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Everyone needs to remember regardless where they are based out of a multinational corporation is just that multinational. So they will do what they have to do to curry favor with a powerful government for corporate kick backs.
Plus regardless of how wrong it is the the people of the United States told the world what they want when the majority elected these clowns not only by the electrical college but also the popular vote. So companies are going to respond to what they perceive is what their markets want.
I hate it as much as the next human with even a little empathy but it's how the world works right now. Just like with countries, companies don't have morals they have interests. So there is no good or bad companies only whats in their interest at the moment.
It could be currying favor with Trump. However I also think a lot of companies were only doing this inclusion stuff in the first place behavior it was fashionable or assumed to be a good thing. With that removed, they’re just dropping the pretense.
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Welp, fuck Lego too I guess. I hope at least some of their fans vote with their wallet and choose new hobbies a little less supportive of fascism.
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