I wouldn't go that far, personally. But... DEI positions do also attract heavily traumatized / toxic people, some of whom seem quite proud of it. In my state

I wouldn't go that far, personally. But... DEI positions do also attract heavily traumatized / toxic people, some of whom seem quite proud of it. In my state alone in recent years I can think of two prominent cases. A Community College near me had a "diversity happy hour event" that invited everyone... except white people. And then when people called that out as not being particularly inclusive, the DEI coordinator doubled down: "If you want to create space for white folks to meet and work on racism, white supremacy, and white privilege to better our campus community and yourselves, please feel free to do just that." For added irony, the coordinator had taken on a native name and touted her native ancestry. But it was later revealed that she was Caucasian. Another university very near by had had a "Day of Exclusion" planned by DEI groups that basically planned to "exclude white students from school buildings" for the day. In the past, many students (of all races) had stayed away from campus that day in support, or protest. It was unclear though, what would happen if white students did try to enter school buildings (one of the groups websites for the event included the URL fragment "/no-neonazis-allowed". And then there was Rachel Dolezal, who faked being African American and ended up as the leader of the NAACP and a professor of African Studies at EWU, born to white parents and claiming that she "self-identified as black" (though that seems at odds with her lying about her parents race on application forms. Crazily, though, both these people are still in diversity positions. One is a Director of the Diversity program at a California school, and the other holds multiple community and diversity related roles. And then we get to some of the tech crowd and diversity/community/evangelist position people who are openly anti-male, like Randi Harper, running an anti-harassment support organization while setting her Twitter handle things like "Kill All Men", submitting bio pics to conferences with her drinking from a mug with "Male Tears" on the side. Or Adria Richards, Coraline Ehmke, famous for joining open source projects with codes of conduct that were not "aggressive enough" (her own words) and then trying to get contributors kicked out of those projects for things they'd said elsewhere in life. And then losing her shit when people pointed out the numerous times she'd advocated for violence elsewhere in life, until GitHub, who had hired her for "Community Safety" had to fire her for obvious hypocrisy. There are people who are working (not just in tech) in DEI to restore some balance (because there absolutely are areas that are profoundly sexist, racist, and so on) whose laudable work is being undershadowed by people who obviously have unresolved issues in their personal life or in their mental health who see working in DEI as some form of ... therapy or catharsis for them.