The issues with DEI - the Secret Service edition

DEI prioritizes diversity over competency- this is a well known problem with it. Or rather, this is a feature, since this is precisely what it is meant to do. Let's not talk about how unfair it is towards people who are not in the "protected characteristics" groups, and get left out despite being more competent than the people who get in. Let's forget about the competency crisis DEI causes. Let's talk about briefly what happens when a person, who is not an evil white cis heterosexual male (I hope I covered all here), fucks up. Because people do fuck up, even the competent ones. Well, the first reaction when Trump got shot was a gleeful laugh at the female Secret Service operatives and boss, because people assumed they fucked up because they were DEI hires. Yes, white cis heterosexual males would not have been lampooned like this, but since DEI is in place, it made those agents a free game. Who knows? Maybe they really were incompetent. Maybe they were not. But they sure as hell got a rough treatment because of DEI. (And not because they were women.) DEI puts the people it is supposed to help in a much worse situation than the white cis heterosexual male. Their sole presence will come with the assumption of being helped there instead of having worked to get there, and every time there is a fuckup, they will be under even more scrutiny. I am not sure who the winner is here.