Except it does mean hiring unqualified or incompetent employees.

Yeah we’re gonna need a cite for that. And no, not an anecdotal story your friend from high school told you. Show us real, printed words that mean DEI says hire unqualified or incompetent employees.

Spoiler: there is none. This is the racist or bigoted line for the history of equitable hiring efforts. People who don’t know that take it on, but it’s not true. Same as it ever was.