[btilly]

Right.

- The company is bad because it doesn't hire enough black women.

- The company needs to hire people versed in identity politics to critique what they are doing.

- Programmers should be required to take the kind of course that she teaches.

- Programmers should be only allowed to work alongside the people versed in identity politics who can tell them what they are doing wrong.

In short, this is a power grab. "They done wrong, so people like me need to be given authority to make sure that they don't continue doing it."

That may seem like an extreme example, but it is along a natural progression for people whose profession is figuring out what should be complained about. Everyone wants to believe that what they do is important. That they should be given more power and authority. What that means in practice varies by profession. But that is always the tendency.