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Yes, agreed about the third paragraph.

I think the question about diversity, though, often comes down to "why should you prioritize diversity over other factors", not "why should you not avoid hiring blacks/women etc". I think generally the debate now is about whether a "blind" hiring process would be better than a "diversity-aware" hiring process, where you are actively shooting for a culturally/ethnically/gender diverse team, and about how much "diversity" counts for vs. skill (i.e. person A is a better programmer than person B, but person A is white/straight/male and person B is black/gay/female - how much better than B does A have to be that his value outweighs the diversity value of hiring B).