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Nobody is "inserting" or "shoe-horning" anyone anywhere they don't belong. My argument has always been that systems of power have artificially, non-meritocratically, prevented competent and able people from gaining positions of power or influence because of their membership to a particular group. They're just not given a fair shot.
Now depending on how used to the traditional landscape of power some people are, a legitimately fair shot may appear like some sinister replacement theory-like plot, but that's not justice and you can't please everyone anyway. There's only so much identity a group can strategically yield before they've lost the issues they originally wanted solved.
America voted for Obama in part because he was an actual option. When people are made aware there are options for better representation, they'll take them.
I understand the problem, but pressuring employers to meet quotas for diversity goals absolutely does result in employees being selected at least in part based on their demographic characteristics, which is not meritorious either.
I don't think we're going to see eye-to-eye on this. So, thanks for the conversation, but we're going to have to agree to disagree.