Nature Is Healing: Most S&P100 Companies Dump DEI Criteria From Board Selection
To be clear, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives drew heavily on radical Marxist theory and systematically displaced merit-based standards with unproductive, identity-driven politics. What corporate America marketed as a governance priority proved to be a short-lived ideological fad. Most S&P 100 companies are now dumping explicit diversity criteria from their board-selection policies amid growing recognition that mandates conceived in far-left academic institutions prioritized social engineering over productivity, competitiveness, and preserving America’s economic dominance.
Bloomberg News cited a new report from research firm ESGAUGE that showed that 61 S&P 100 companies have removed explicit diversity requirements from their director-selection policies, marking a sharp reversal from three years ago.
This means these companies have removed explicit references to gender, race, ethnicity, and underrepresented groups from their board-selection criteria. Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Starbucks, and Wells Fargo are among those that eliminated the woke provisions.
The reversal suggests that DEI’s cancer-like spread across corporate America during the Marxist riots of 2020 was less a durable governance reform and more an act of corporate self-sabotage.
The retreat signals growing recognition that policies rooted in radical Marxist ideology weakened merit-based decision-making and proved more destructive to corporate cohesion, productivity, and competitiveness.
Beyond corporate America, the Trump administration has stripped toxic DEI programs from federal agencies, the military, universities, and government contractors.
The very people who pushed this radical Marxism in corporate America are much of the same activists aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America who quite literally say they want to “destroy the nation from within.”
The United States has successfully confronted Marxist attempts to derail it from its historic path of economic success, liberty, and order. Right now marks yet another point in history when the far left is attempting to systemically dismantle the nation. It is not just us saying this…
…DSA leaders say it in their own words.
And even in their own agenda, in which they want to seize power of the largest corporations.
Should make sense now.
Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/12/2026 – 14:00