Come on. Pandering would imply I am insincerely expressing popular views to get claps or something. There's nothing insincere about the viewpoint expressed here. As for the first paragraph, I am partly commencing an argument "it is an assault on social resilience" and partly expressing a set of values. I genuinely believe a fair and just society tries to look after its disadvantaged. This doesn't require supporting argumentation, because it's a values statement and if you as a reader don't agree with those values, that's fine. If I write "people shouldn't kick their pets" and you respond "according to who?" then I just don't know what to say to you. It's not an "unearned reality", it's a value. Comes down to the golden rule: treat others as you would yourself want to be treated.
On to your original argument, diversity is not just natural. If you wanted to make up a team to go survive on a desert island, you would probably choose a group wth diverse skills: someone who can fish, someone with good conflict resolution skills etc. Diversity or the lack of it is an attribute of many complex systems. I believe organizations function more effectively when they are composed of diverse people. I've experienced organizations comprised almost entirely of women, apart from me, and others which were all men. These gender imbalances lead to particular types of organizational dysfunction, which I've experienced.
You say I only want the diversity that suits me. Nope, this is not about me. I would personally benefit if companies only hired hired white men. But I don't think that would be a healthy or fair society. You say I want to police what diversity gets realised, as if all-white workplaces are just as diverse somehow. No, DEI policies (and they should not be simplistic quotas that end up hiring worse candidates) lead to objectively more diverse workplaces in many dimensions, and I've made my case for why that is good for those workplaces.
Clearly you don't want this, and I'm OK to oppose you on that, so yes, I also support the idea that opposition is part of society. You can't coherently tell me that it's a problem that I want society my way, while saying that it's OK for you to want it your way.
