"the accusations seem almost farcical" Exactly, but they are very real requirements for us to keep the jobs that pay the salaries we use to feed our children. That is the reason we have such an issue with DEI or at least the way its implemented in the very real and very large corporations (40k+ employees) that we work for.

Here is what google returned on a quick search, a subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company actively encouraging what the other poster said:

https://www.mercer.us/content/dam/mercer/attachments/north-a...

It focuses on the executive level but is it hard to imagine that it has filtered down to the lower levels in some companies?