OK. I don’t doubt you. But also in my experience, underqualified/bad employees are hired to full racial/sex quotes because the ‘appearance’ of being a diverse workplace is more important than… actually having quality employees.

My own company hired me after a string of minority hires who basically trashed the place… and one of the reasons they hired me asap because during interview I asked them questions about their practices and infrastructure and pointed out some basic visible flaws in their tech just walking through the office… none of which any of their previous hires had done and frankly… had perpetuated. productivity/retention also went way up when we stopped tring to DEI hire and set minimim standards for experience and degrees… and did this lower our diversity percentage… yes, undoutbale. but it’s also a much better place to work and our productivity is much higher. We still retain 15% minority employees. before that change it was higher, like 30%, but we had tons of overturn and problematic/abusive employees. that hiring policy was changed after a leadership change.

In my time in academia I also saw several unqualified people be awarded grants/monies or use DEI policies to abuse/exploit others. DEI policies are not wrong, but often they are deeply flawed and lead to perversions of their actual intent. The nobility of a policy that is supposed to give underprivileged people access to privileged is great… but oftentimes privledged people of minority status use them to simple boost their own privileged at the expensive of underprivileged people.

I can give you tons of examples. I dated an art professor a few years ago who was a woman and a native American… she openly admitted she was shit at her job, abused her students, and genuinely only gave a shit about how much money she could make… she was also incredibly racists and sexist person and was open about her discrimination. But because she was a tenure track DEI hire she was untouchable/unfirable. I went to an ivy league undergrad and watched tons of privledged minority race students threaten, abuse, and manipulate professors and fellow students to get higher grads or reduce their workloads, and the admin/profs never said no. and the second you stood up to these bullies… the admin threatened to suspend/expel you. And these students were not the hardworking immigrants… they were the minority children from wealthy families. Not to mention the abject harassment, intimidation, and silencing of anyone who was moderate or conservative on campus during debates/discussion… and this was 10-15 years ago. It’s only worse today. I once went to a lecture about morality and God and witness students threaten, mock, an deride the speaker, simple because he was religious. But in the students mind ‘all religion sis evil and bad and so is anyone who is religious’.

My grad experience was had regular DEI abusers and bad faith actors, including a prof I worked for who abused me for being male and white. She was at least removed from campus after having a literally breakdown and threatening her undergrad students in class. It took literally violence for her to be terminated from her position as a woman prof in academia. It should have never reached that point.

DEI policies should be abolished and replaced with policies based on income/wealth/education. That would be far more equitable and less likely to be abused bad faith actors. Kids from poor uneducated families need the leg up in life, regardless of their ethnicity or sex. minority students who come from wealthy educated families don’t.

I dont’ know about you, but I don’t really enjoy being harassed, intimated and threatened by minority students for being a work-class white guy paying my own way through higher ed from kids who were only there for the degree so they could go work at daddy’s multi million dollar business. who felt that i was ‘stealing’ from them by being on campus and they ‘deserved’ their education more than me… or that i “stole” my education from their ‘more deserving’ wealthy minority friends.