This is so much BS dressed up as objective. Competency and ability have never been the key criteria used for hiring and education. Griggs v. Duke Power explici

This is so much BS dressed up as objective. Competency and ability have never been the key criteria used for hiring and education. Griggs v. Duke Power explicitly banned the use of academic credentials and non-specific tests while explicitly allowing the use of job-specific testing. It did this because those non-specific credentials were used to bias in favor of white employees over colored employees. If a person can do the actual job well, or be trained to do it well, that should be all that matters. And according to the actual decision in Griggs v. Duke Power, that is all that matters. Show me a world in which everyone is facilitated in reaching their potential and you won't have many arguments about bias. People recognize when they're in over their heads and usually don't like being in such a position. Are people doing counter-productive things in the name of diversity? Probably. Just like everything else that people do things in the name of. Does "diversity" swamp competency to do a job? To the extent it does, I doubt any more than nepotism or positive implicit bias (hiring people like yourself).