Dec
23
No Such Thing As a “Diversity Hire”?
I was just reading Jonah Goldberg’s article “My Merit — Your Racism” and wanted to share this particular paragraph:
“I dwell on this because it helps illustrate the heads-we-win-tails-you-lose nature of this whole topic. The country spends billions on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies for hiring. Corporations, universities, unions, and major media organizations all have well-funded DEI departments. There’s colossal social pressure to hire for diversity, but for some reason if you call someone a “diversity hire” that’s an outrageously racist charge. You can’t have it both ways. Either diversity was a really important factor in picking Kamala Harris, or it wasn’t. If it wasn’t, then you can’t celebrate Biden’s pick as diversity hire while simultaneously getting outraged when other people say the same thing. And if no one is a diversity hire, why are we spending so much time and energy promoting diversity hiring?”
Great observation. Great question.
