nature. By its nature, considering DEI aspects in hiring can potentially taint the criteria by which candidates are selected.

Still an organizational problem if people are hired without regard to merit. In fact that’s the whole reason it’s worth having a DEI focus : you can’t just hire on demographics and it takes a bit more work to hire on merit while trying to reduce inequity.

If you see people hired solely on demographics, either your impression s wrong or the hiring manager sucks