Shopify lays off team supporting Black, Indigenous and women entrepreneurs

Blows my mind how fast this switch was. I thought it would trail off over years, but its like everyone decided at once to drop DEI.

Was Shopify just running a team it didn't want until government changed? Doesn't sound very private sector to me. What other things do these companies do just to appease current administrations/cultural trends?

I mean, this comes from the same platform that’s had no problem hosting Breitbart and other far right and neo-Nazi storefronts.<p>Hell, wasn’t the COO’s wife running True North Media?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pressprogress.ca&#x2F;shopify-executives-right-wing-media-website-rails-against-immigrants-while-defending-a-legally-designated-terrorist-group&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pressprogress.ca&#x2F;shopify-executives-right-wing-media...</a><p>The only reason they pulled Kanye’s storefront was because they considered it to be “unauthentic”, not because he was selling swastikas.