"DEI provides impetus..." DEI also provides an impetus to hire token minorities, even if underqualified, because the DEI team demands results and will label yo

"DEI provides impetus..." DEI also provides an impetus to hire token minorities, even if underqualified, because the DEI team demands results and will label your explanation that you didn't really get your hands on a good black programmer as systemic racism. Or perhaps even your own personal racism. From where I live (Czechia), we still remember old Communist Czechoslovakia. Late stage Communism was all about impressive statistics - on paper. Ticking the important boxes in the form was very important. Of course, the economy collapsed, because the real problems couldn't be papered over by impressive statistics forever. DEI in American context looks similar to that, only America is more free and the corporations are more willing to shed the concept once it proved useless.