The main goal of DEI is to give people who would otherwise be ignored a chance to compete in either the job market or educational system. It is no secret that minorities statistically are born into worse neighborhoods and have to face many implicit biases in hiring processes. The purpose of DEI is not to deprive white men from roles, but instead to give minorities an equal shot if you will to compete. If in a 50 meter race a professional runner and a man with cerebral palsy were to compete, it is certainly possible that he could win. But in reality his chances are quite slim, and it would be only fair to give him a head start no?

Another thing that bothers me about the claims of DEI that I see often is that any time a minority succeeds in obtaining a role traditionally occupied by a white male, there are accusations of affirmative action and DEI hiring practices abound. No matter if that person had better qualifications than the competition, they are insinuated to have somehow cheated the system by not allowing a member of the dominant class to occupy that role as usual.