Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on DEI as both corny and crucial:
"It is easy to dismiss D.E.I. programs as ineffectual, because in many ways they have been. But that raises the question of why the right is so determined to undermine and dismiss them. ... The problem with D.E.I. is not that it went too far but that it has not gone far enough."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-war-on-diversity-equity-and-inclusion