I want this to be totally clear. "DEI Hire" isn't just shorthand for Black (or not white.) It contains the assumption that people who aren't white are inherently inferior and, thus, inherently unqualified. Therefore, any person saying this is a white supremacist racist full stop.
It implies that *any* variance from straight white cis male is inherently inferior - that SWCM are the only people who truly earn jobs, everyone else is just skating by on quotas. Except that makes about 75% of the population DEI hires.