Who cares about diversity?

I don't think that should be as big of a deal as it is. I'm guessing it's because it's bad for publicity/ads but the whole "people are mad at each other in the comments! Shut it down!" thing that has taken over is dumb.

Have you ever seen how mad people get at each other on the road? Yeah, people suck when they don't have a face in front of them to remind them its a person on the other side. It's disingenuous to pretend that side of people doesn't exist though.

I don't doubt that your prediction is entirely true, but I'd say a more likely cause is that the majority of people realise (correctly) that this sort of article will result in absolutely no useful or edifying discussion whatsoever. We'll be treated to a thread of absolutely valueless commentary that achieves nothing apart from angering a lot of people, and I'd imagine that articles like this will continue to flagged to death until such time as HN demonstrates that it's able to sustain adult conversations about controversial issues, particularly where they touch on topics like DEI.

I think people are confusing corporations vs people.

People want diversity and care about diversity, who optionally wants to exclude someone that has merit to participate in the work/activity. Of course bigots exist, but largely people try to respect people.

Corporations, care as much as it is profitable that is the purpose of the organization is to generate wealth for stakeholders.

The issue in my opinion is how subjective 'merit' is, where studies show two resumes with equal qualifications a name implying a race or gender alone is enough to change the results of which resume was chosen subconsciously.

People see this problem as how do you measure someone without bias? How do you measure the cultural impact one can bring? How do you measure

Corporations see this problem as, how do we stay diverse enough to not look evil? How do we make measure our diversity to prove that? THEN they approach the people's point of view on the issue, because above everything is shareholders earnings and therefore the optics. It's not even intentional to a degree, stop gap solutions to make corporation happy and people tolerant of the corporation

Calling it Orwellian is crazy though, it's just capitalism and governments trying to find a way to keep it fair for non-capital owners.