Costco's work to defend its DEI values isn't over

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By Beth Kowitt / Bloomberg Opinion

Republican attorneys general have put Costco Wholesale Corp. on notice.

Nineteen of them recently signed off on a letter telling the company to stop “clinging to DEI policies that courts and businesses have rejected as illegal” and that it should do the right thing by “following the law and repealing its DEI policies.”

The attorneys general never says what exactly those policies are, and it doesn’t really seem to matter a whole lot to them. Their complaint puts all of the Issaquah-based Costco’s diversity efforts in the same bucket — bad and illegal — portraying DEI as if it were a single entity rather than a grouping of policies with lots of different approaches and goals.

The AGs are adopting a strategy used by private conservative advocacy groups, most notably Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, that have been on a crusade against what they consider “woke corporations.” They have tried to demonize DEI by painting it in binary terms; something that is unfair and bad, that companies are either for or against.

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