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> This is a bizarre claim.

This isn't new news. Diversity hiring and promotion is all over, alongside the recent BLM relevance.

Yes, there's been ongoing activism, hand-wringing, counter-activism, legislation, etc, in this space for several decades.

So claiming that it's a phenomenon of just the last decade as a way to justify suspicion of merit is very bizarre. Where have you all been?

> Where have you all been?

The pressure on management to hire diverse candidates has increased 100 fold over the past decade.