You must have a short memory if you actually believe that. Diversity programs didn’t all coincidentally spring up in January 2021 the way they are coincidentally disappearing in January 2025. I won’t argue if you call them performative, but they absolutely weren’t just blatant appeals to an incoming presidential administration.

Was that in response to a new incoming administration, or a series of social and cultural events?

Actually, these practices were mostly introduced under Trump, and ramped up with the Floyd protests, which also took place under Trump.