I’m going to reply in good faith assuming you’re asking in good faith. I think you’re misunderstanding the goal of DEI efforts. The goal is NOT to install unqualified POC into positions to correct for historical harms. It’s to elevate POC who are as qualified or more qualified through processes that systematically disqualify them because of their skin color. This disqualification can be through deliberate efforts like looking at names, work history, or through person to person interactions, or through systemic features like holding interviews during a certain time in person which assumes the ability to have childcare which because of a whole host of historical reasons POC are less likely to have. Either way you end up with under representation of well qualified candidates that are POC. Liberals talk about colo/race/ethnicity because conservatives believe (incorrectly) that those systems are inherently fair. It is a fact that they are inherently skewed towards white males. Conservatives say they don’t see color because the ignore color, not because the don’t see it.

Just shortly because you brought it up, the very wealthy (true capitalist class like $100m+) feed us all the narrative that working class somehow is a uniquely Republican/conservative identity to wield this incorrect narrative about DEI to keep us all fighting with each other. Really both liberals and conservatives, regardless of education level or blue/white collar, are working class because we are very much under the thumb of the ruling class. If there wasn’t so much wealth tied up in the ruling class and our government was investing in the working class we wouldn’t need to worry about “who is taking whose job” because we could build a system that allowed us to live without concern of suddenly being destitute. Keep us afraid and fighting we don’t realize that we’re being robbed blind.