I think DEI will destroy itself. It doesn't need helped along.

By its nature diversity as a focus creates the conditions for its own downfall. Claudine Gay is a case in point. Aside from the plagiarism, she was by any measure a total nonentity, someone who shouldn't even be at a community college never mind a leading university. When you remove competency as a factor, as diversity hiring always does, other factors come in to play. Different kinds of people get on. Gay quite literally wouldn't have been there had she not been black. She represents failure of diversity, and a very visible one.

So the diversity hires themselves, like Claudine Gay, will act as the poster children for the whole debacle. The university professors can cling to it all they like but most of the world looks at them like the morons they clearly are, being left behind by the competent and the able. The world laughs as the West lets the lunatics destroy the asylum.