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The National Black Farmers Association called on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO Tuesday to step down after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts.

The resignation demand emerged as Tractor Supply, which sells products ranging from farming equipment to pet supplies, faces a deepening backlash over its decision, which itself came after conservative activists spoke out against the company’s work to be more socially inclusive and to curb climate change

In a public announcement last week, the company said it would eliminate all of its diversity, equity and inclusion roles, end sponsorships of “nonbusiness activities” like Pride festivals, and withdraw its goals for reducing carbon emissions. Critics of the new position argue that Tractor Supply is giving in to hate and harming its customers by abandoning crucial principles.

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago

You can decide this move with two answers: Who are their customers, and what happened last year with Bud Light.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Just so y'all are aware they moved to Yuengling beer as the choice of racists and bigoted people. So please don't buy it unless you really really don't give a fuck about CEOs mocking boycotts.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Dang, now we can't make jokes about Anakin killing all the Yuenglings

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Phew. I was afraid they'd move to Sam Adams or something since they fetishize the Founders so much, and I'd have to give up something I actually like.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I used to like Yurngling before 2016 or whenever when their politics came out :(

Twas a decently cheap beer you could get on tap, but no longer for me

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Seriously? Yuengling, is that Chinese beer?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Lmao, people asking that gets me every time. Wild name that I don't know why they named it that, but it's actually America's oldest brewery, it's on the east coast.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

It's named after the founder, who was a German immigrant named Jungling.

Immigrant names were often spelled how they sound by barely literate immigration agents.

So Jungling is pronounced Yewng-ling and became Yuengling.

The current CEO (Dick Yuengling Jr) is a nepo baby piece of shit Trump lover.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Correct. He's a giant piece of shit and his sales have only gone up since Trump was elected.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And for those wondering, it's just a very slightly better version of Bud and only then if it's really fresh. After two weeks on the shelf they're equally shitty.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I was in Texas for my first time ever and had my first ever Yeungling (it isn't available where I live). I didn't know it was now the choice for the bigots. But I do know: it's really not a great beer.

Neither is Bud (/Light), but at least that doesn't taste like a malty homebrew.

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