DEI means hiring someone based upon race or gender even if they are less qualified. The problem with DEI is that not all pools of talent are equal. Something like 90% of engineers are male. If a company decided that, because of DEI, they needed to hire 50% male and 50% female engineers there is no way that the 50% female engineers would be at the same quality as the 50% male engineers simply because the pool to chose from is much smaller. Same thing with nurses but the genders are reversed. Think about how boring the NFL would be if only 13% of the players were black.
If you're arguing that diverse representation makes sense in some cases then are there cases where not having diverse representation makes sense? My town is 90% white and 10% Asian. Should we be hiring only white and Asian police and teachers? If you're claiming that in some situations only a black person can understand other black people then wouldn't the same be true for white, Asian and Hispanic people?
DEI does more harm than good. We shouldn't be putting less qualified people in important positions simply because of their race or gender. Worse is that things like DEI and Affirmative Action lead to resentment and backlash.
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