"There are plenty of qualified people of all races/sex/genders/nationality/religions available to make for a diverse workplace." Really? In all places, at all times, for all positions? And yes, it is forced because the company faces the reality that they can potentially be sued by any person who falls into the diversity box if said person feels or believes they were overlooked because of the feature that makes them diverse. It doesn't matter how many times someone has actually sued for such a thing, it only matters that the potential exists.

Yes really! A workplace should accurately reflect the population. Unfortunately, some companies NEED to be forced to give a woman, or a minority, or a gay person, or an immigrant an opportunity for employment. Government has had to force people to do the right thing many times throughout our history. Plantation owners were forced to free their slaves, schools were forced to integrate, bus companies were forced to allow black people to sit where ever the hell they want.. A large segment of the population was against this government intervention at the time, but it would be ridiculous to look back on that now and say the government was wrong in doing so. It is so condescending and ignorant to say that employing a diverse workforce somehow means hiring less qualified people. It simply doesn't.

Nobody, anywhere in this thread, said that employing a diverse workforce MEANS hiring less than qualified people. What was actually said is that there are less than qualified people being hired because of diversity laws. You are delusional if you truly believe that, for every discreet population across the country, there is a standing army of qualified people of all races/sex/genders/nationality/religion just waiting in the wings for any and all job postings that come up. Also, you say a workplace should accurately reflect the population. Which population? The entirety of the U.S. or the population of the immediate area?

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"So yeah, it may not be uncomfortable for YOU to attribute incompetence to something like skin color or gender, it is very uncomfortable for people with morals who aren't bigots." Is this really the best and only thing you've got? You want to be comfortable with yourself and label all of us as bigots...do you include yourself in that same label? You definitely should. You're bigoted enough to assert that all of us attribute incompetence to race or gender and nothing else but your bigotry is very shortsighted and false.

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It just happened with the supreme court.

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Ahh, what a great solution

Since you've shown yourself to be small minded enough to not give any thought to a everything you don't know about OP's situation why should you be given any credibility in your statements?

Ok? Same with anybody. Shock. There's a lot of stupid office politicing that happens in general. Nepotism, people sleeping with someone, sucking up, diversity, there's lot of reasons idiots get promoted and hired.

Lol, White fragility at it's best. Since when have White individuals EVER been overlooked in this country. Sounds like the battle cry of every incompetent or mediocre White person. Sometimes the BEST individual for the job is actually a Person of Color. We have to work 10x harder just to be seen.

What rock are you living under that protects you from the reality that there are, in fact, white people who have been overlooked in this country and, SHOCKER!, there are white people who are in a vast number of social and economic dire straits. You'd like the world to believe that all white people in this country are all middle class with no problems at all but it simply isn't true. At least have some integrity in your arguments.

As a ghetto born crackah... This man speaks truth. I get all sorts of breaks my black friends don't...

You sound pretty racist yourself.

Since when does the most qualified person get promoted to management, regardless of diversity? Are you really that dense to think that because OP *thinks* that the boss was a diversity hire, that means they *were*? All of my bosses in my 6 years at my current company have been white men until recently. They were all terrible in their own ways, two were demoted, and two left the company. My current boss is a woman and has been the most competent boss I've had. So what does my circumstancial evidence say? Are you saying there are no competent women or people of color that could manage a factory? Because I can definitely prove otherwise. Also, you're assuming the individual even wanted to be a manager. Lots of people, especially in my industry, actively reject promotions in to management. Don't conflate complaining about a boss for being passed over for promotion. You just invented that entirely in your head.

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@Mari Scott Source?

Really? You want a source on something that happens but isn't allowed to be tracked? I guess you're one of those people who thinks that just because a source can't be produced that you are 100% correct in your arguments. Sorry. Life doesn't actually work that way and under qualified people getting a job simply because their existence allows an employer to check a box has been happening for decades now and it has happened so many times through those decades, in many different career fields, that it is no longer anecdotal.

Life kinda does work like that. We are just suppose to take your word that this is happening? Are you part of the hiring process of a company? What under qualified person do you know that was hired cause of diversity?

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I agree, how do we know Emily will ever be very qualified? It seems unlikely to be a problem for her.