In response to Gillan, the reason this scares me is because it's another sketchy way of legislating common sense. Instead of saying that employers are not allowed to discriminate based upon race, gender, et cetera, they are in effect being ordered to have at least X% minorities employed at their business. There is a difference.

This just smacks of the fiasco years ago (might have just been a New England thing) involving police and fire departments lowering the minimum test scores for and giving favorable placement to minority applicants so as to make for a more diverse (and less skilled?) force. In that kind of scenario, everything suffers except political correctness.

I understand that having a stupid dispatcher isn't the same as having a stupid cashier at A&F, because God knows there are enough of both and harm is minimal. And yet, in the end I believe everyone pays the price once you get that idiot Sergeant/Captain or Regional Director of Marketing/Loss Prevention because you were muscled into being diverse.