The power toolmaker Stanley Black and Decker is the latest firm to face a boycott from conservatives over its diversity-hiring policies and support for LGBTQ causes.
Consumers’ Research, an advocacy group, has panned the Connecticut-based firm for picking suppliers based on their race, and funding LGBTQ lobbying in Washington.
The company, which is behind such brands as DeWalt, Black and Decker, and Stanley, joins a growing list of firms to come under pressure from conservatives over policies seen by many as ‘woke.’
Will Hild, director of Consumers’ Research, said Stanley Black and Decker has strayed into politics by pushing cultural values that ‘have nothing to do with ensuring consumer satisfaction.’
The firm’s ‘sole priority should be providing their customer base, professionals and DIYers alike, with the best tools and equipment possible,’ Hild told The Mail.
Two Stanford University professors are attacking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), claiming that it promotes anti-Semitism.
In an Aug. 30 op-ed published in The New York Times, Stanford professors Paul Brest and Emily J. Levine argue that “American campuses need an alternative to ideological D.E.I. programs.”
Brest, former dean and professor emeritus at Stanford Law School, and Levine, a lecturer on history and education, were appointed to Stanford’s subcommittee on antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias following increased anti-Semitism at the campus after Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.