I'm not a fan of DEI so this isn't in defense of that policy. But are you really comparing it to the KKK?

Seriously?

Yes — they’re illicitly routing federal tax money to fund organized racism and sexism.

The same political movement, Progressives, that have support institutional antisemitism for 130 years and which has a string of ruled-illegal or later banned policies:

- Jim Crow/segregation

- race and sex quotas

- race and sex preferences, first euphemized “affirmative action” and most recently DIE.

They recent elected their leadership based on sex quotas and are supporting a group called “The Race” assaulting police in LA, to prevent the law from being enforced against that ethnic group.

KKK.

Edit:

They assaulted multiple towns via their paramilitary wing, committing over $2B in arson attacks and 70 murders in 2020.

They are violent extremists along with perennial racists.

I'm a Jew (atheist). I don't think it's correct to compare well meaning idiots with people who literally kill people.