The real DEI hire.

[Takket]

8. this nails the crux of the whole issue, doesn't it?

The importance of DEI initiatives is that it is win win for the employees, and for the government/companies. Too often, and it is pretty much only in white male circles, people get hired because they are someone's son, or cousin, or went to college with them, or they play softball together, or golf together. Good old boys who watch each others backs and lead to people in companies that doesn't actually know what they are doing, while the company not only shuts out diversity, but more qualified people as well. Those same white males just assume "oh, well a black woman could never get a job unless some DEI program forced them on us." No, that's not what DEI is. DEI is about lifting the quality of a company's employees while diversifying at the same time. It is a win win for everyone involved, except for the forner frat buddy who loses out on a VP or marketing gig because he's never done a damn thing in his life with marketing.