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The new hire appears to have been hired just purely because of the colour of his skin - apparently because of a diversity initiative. That strikes me as racist because it implies that they've never hired any non-white engineers due to their performance without addressing the inherent bias in the system that would only hire white engineers even when more qualified engineers of different ethnic backgrounds are available.

There's also the dig at people who wish to be known by certain pronouns/titles/names (e.g. "Ted" Cruz)

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> The new hire appears to have been hired just purely because of the colour of his skin

It's explicitly stated. But isn't that the whole Dilbert schtick? The PHB is not supposed to be good. He represents the stupid side of Corporate America. And then when the black guy says "I identify as white", Corporate America doubles down on the stupidity.

"implies they've never hired..." seems to be reading an awful lot into it.

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> "implies they've never hired..." seems to be reading an awful lot into it.

I believe that that was the first coloured person in the whole Dilbert strips, though I haven't checked that. I was a fan of Dilbert many years ago, but I suspect that if I re-read them that I'd be thinking of Scott Adams' later politics and looking for early signs. There's probably a lot of suspect cartoons that featured the Elbonians.

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Typical DEI bullshit. They claim that DEI is critical to hire minorities, but then if you claim any one person was hired because of that policy the call you racist.