I can’t think of many better examples of “The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions” than the DEI cult.
When the DEI people say “hey hire out of this HBCU, not out of this elite college with tons of legacy admissions which there is almost no pathway to from a school in a poor neighbourhood” that’s not all evil and terror.
But the DEI people went to the elite college with legacy admissions, and work there now. "DEI" is "more BIPOCs at elite colleges to which there's no pathway from a poor neighborhood."
I think there is some social good in equity at any cost just so society doesn’t devolve into race riots because of rightfully pissed off people whose families never got a fair shot to ever do things like grow generational wealth.
They fixed that inconsistency by redefining racism in terms of power/oppression rather than "discrimination based on skin color".
The racist stuff that matters is more how HR engages in ways to implement racial discrimination of questionable legality if it ever hit the highest court in the land but which has never been specifically tried against before and which is so unfamiliar that people don’t fully understand the implications. They engineer novel and creative means of racial discrimination in hiring to meet their quotas, things that would make any Hollywood accountant jealous. Since the law is practically internally contradictory (you can’t hire too many Whites and Asians but you can’t have a literal White and Asian quota) it leads to all manner of imagineering.