If you're going to call every new person of color or white woman a "diversity hire" then you also have to call every new white man a "privilege hire". Don't blame me, those are just the rules.
I've seen a little discussion about this tweet, so here's an expansion. This is in reference to a garbage heap of a dude that a friend told me about. They're both in a university physics dept, a field with a long history of issues in equity and inclusion across gender and race.
From what my friend told me, this dude's views are yikes for two major reasons: 1. He implies that people of color and white women were inherently less qualified and only hired to make the department look diverse...
...and 2. He implies that non-white non-men are a monolith, when in fact white women benefit hugely from white privilege, and there's a lot of other facets of identity that can come with advantages or disadvantages, too.
Without context, my original tweet also sounds a bit glib and monolith-y. Sorry about that, and thanks to the rad people who stepped up with expansions before I did!
