> I think blaming DEI hires for problems is mostly people who don't like the idea of hiring based on race/gender/etc. and who also realize that if you do that h

> I think blaming DEI hires for problems is mostly people who don't like the idea of hiring based on race/gender/etc. and who also realize that if you do that hard enough, you're bound to get inferior people because you're limiting your hiring pool. Wherever I've seen diversity initiatives, the point is to expand the hiring pool, not shrink it. In other words this is people who, for whatever reason, want to portray the situation as precisely the opposite of what it is.