For very very very long time people have been being hired because they were white men. Not only were basically all of the desirable jobs available to white men, they were exclusively for white men.
You can still see it today, where a highly intelligent and successful person is mocked, not for being just another white male being given a participation trophy for going to college, but because it is a black woman. That's why we’re going to criticize her fortunate opportunity, because she's a black woman? We gonna call every non-white person out when they get an opportunity they don't necessarily deserve more than any other person on the planet? That seems to be the qualification for being a DEI hire, "you are not the #1 candidate for this position in the entire world, therefore I cannot in good conscience give this job to you... unfortunately I was forced to give it to my brother in law Jim Bob." I mean wouldn't want to be woke and be guilty of DEI.