I'm going to get a little political with my answer, but not in a way that praises one party over another. The general conservative response to "why am I not successful?" has been "bootstraps." "You are not successful because you haven't tried hard enough or worked hard enough. There are plenty of success stories out there, so why not you? It must be your fault."
DEI changes the source of blame from "you are to blame" to "society is to blame," at least for everyone on the planet other than white men. "You are not successful because of systemic racism. You are not successful because white privilege. You are not successful because of sexism." And if you are a white male (or a Jewish, it would seem), society isn't to blame of course, and we're right back to blaming you for your failure.
If you're paying attention, the end result is the exact same thing. Shift the blame from corporations who don't pay well enough, massive retailers like Amazon who have destroyed countless businesses, wealthy liberal zip codes that don't share their taxes with neighboring schools (not that conservatives do this either), a government that doesn't try to improve education and helps companies outsource our jobs, etc.
And if DEI actually brought people of various races together in unity and mutual friendship and respect, instead of just proximity, it wouldn't be anywhere in corporate America, because it would make workers much more likely to unionize. It's been shown that DEI actually has the opposite effect. The more racially and culturally diverse a company is, the less likely they are to unionize. Kind of ironic, isn't it?
And that's why it has been so deeply entrenched. Because it allows rich and powerful liberals to pass the blame, just as rich and powerful conservatives have done for decades.
Because if you're Amazon and you embrace DEI, you can tell you employees you won't pay for their Covid sick leave anymore, and you can turn a blind eye to your employees peeing in bottles to keep to your absurd delivery schedule, and you can slander and intimidate anyone trying to organize your workforce, all while getting a great ESG score that says you're an ethical company that people should invest in.
And that's what DEI is ultimately. Nice cheap words.
You might have to scroll a bit to get to the rest of the twitter thread, but there are plenty of examples given.
It makes sense that there would be so many Jewish liberals. Jews have been persecuted throughout their existence, and the claim is that liberals care more about that sort of thing. And it's true that liberal thought is historically to thank for a lot of important progress made in society. But right now Jewish people are quickly learning where they've been placed into a modern intersectional victim hierarchy without their consent or approval, and I think they're starting to wake up to how illiberal and ultimately destructive all of this really is.