Hiring someone to work for your company using any reason other than meritocracy is just plain stupid...
My 1st hand experience with the diversity BS was when I considered joining the city fire rescue where I live.
This was way back in 1978 or ‘79.
Of course before computers and the internet, I saw an ad in the paper stating job openings for fire rescue training program so I went to city hall to apply.
When I found the job board there it was in capital letters:
“Hiring county fire rescue trainees”
“BLACK APPLICANTS ONLY NEED APPLY”
I ended up spending 31 years working for the DoD where diversity is king......or queen really.
All affirmative action hiring policies do is cause the mission to be less effective as it otherwise would be, keeps the REAL most qualified applicants from being hired and may even be responsible for getting people killed in certainsituations.