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FOX News host Laura Ingraham has picked a fight with a large chain of grocery stores after the company said it was dedicated to adhering to diversity and inclusion hiring strategies.
Ingraham responded last week to a social media post about an opening for a position at Aldi, which has over 2,000 locations across the country.
“Wow, no more shopping at @AldiUSA!” Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) wrote in response to the ad in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The popular TV personality hosts a prime-time show — The Ingraham Angle — every weekday, speaking to an audience of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
The ad for a “national procurement specialist” position stated that the company prioritizes “upholding our guiding principles of diversity, equity & inclusion (DE&I) and enacting change that lasts in our communities.”
“Our goal is to build a space where everyone who walks through our doors feels welcome,” it read.
DEI policies aim to increase the diversity of individuals in a group according to categories like gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
Ingraham’s comment comes after similar hiring policies were struck down by courts in recent years for being discriminatory towards non-minorities.
The ad was originally captured in a screenshot and shared by another user who also disparaged the hiring policy.
“@AldiUSA promises to break the law and discriminate against straight white people in their hiring. They’re looking to hire a procurement specialist and will prioritize everyone except straight white people,” Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) wrote.
“DEI is illegal and racist,” they said in the original post.
Some conservative politicians have slammed DEI hiring policies, saying that they mistakenly single out individuals to represent entire groups — tokenizing — and discriminate against otherwise qualified candidates while promoting other types of hierarchies.
DEI “has become its own weapon against objective merit and excellence across the American landscape. The acronym is DEI, but it’s really more like BVI, Bureaucracy, Victimology, and Incompetence,” Ingraham said previously during her nightly show.
“One word comes to mind — scam… DEI is its own cottage industry with its own side hustles. Even the rating agency Moody’s has all the bureaucratic diversity lingo down the path,” she said.
But not everyone agrees with Ingraham.
“It’s important to understand that not all of our implicit biases are as innocuous as peanut butter and jelly,” Ingraham’s show quoted the National Education Association as saying.
“These biases too often shaped the language we use and the ways we interact with others based on race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other cultural identities.”
Other proponents of DEI have said that the policies are necessary to move companies and classrooms forward, beyond historical inequalities.
In addition to implementing hiring strategies like DEI, stores like Aldi have been embracing new technology to stay cutting-edge in the competitive grocery market.
And although Ingraham and many of her colleagues at Fox News have disparaged DEI policies, the company has continued to pledge a commitment to diversity and inclusion year after year, media watchdog MediaMatters.org has pointed out.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to representatives of Laura Ingraham and Aldi for comments.
