And what is wrong with that? What the hell does DEI have to do with being competitive?
What you do brings value to a company. Not some immutable aspect of your being (race, color, sexual preference, etc.).
It's amazing to watch people who are supposedly anti-racist working feverishly to enact policies far more restrictive than Jim Crow laws ever were.
Anyone who tries to talk about anything other than merit is a charlatan. Hell Martin Luther King would be excoriated from Twitter for declaring that he dare dream that people be judged by they character and not their skin color.