About 10 years ago I had an incompetent colleague, but she was a woman of native American ancestry, with a lot of visible tattoos and she was a lesbian. She was passed on from one department to another every couple of years to check a lot of diversity boxes and not to spend too much time the headcount and budget of any department. She was actually a cool person, in my opinion, but she had a fame way bigger than the real person. I looked for her in the internal directory, but she is not around anymore or she changed the name.
The big problem with diversity hires is that good people that are hired will be automatically tagged as bad people. It is hard to fight this image and prove it wrong, especially when it is widescale in some places and it not just based on race, but any diversity target. For example my country is almost exclusively white (with a couple of non-white celebrities as exceptions), there are legally no trans people so the pressure is to hire women, lots of them (70-80% is the desired target). That fires back visibly, the really good ones leave the company, the bad ones remain (to cash in on their gender) and this makes the image even worse.
The big problem with diversity hires is that good people that are hired will be automatically tagged as bad people. It is hard to fight this image and prove it wrong, especially when it is widescale in some places and it not just based on race, but any diversity target. For example my country is almost exclusively white (with a couple of non-white celebrities as exceptions), there are legally no trans people so the pressure is to hire women, lots of them (70-80% is the desired target). That fires back visibly, the really good ones leave the company, the bad ones remain (to cash in on their gender) and this makes the image even worse.