Comment by Levitz

>You can also rob the bad people of the power to hide behind the words and symbols: if only bad people use them, we know the users are bad. It's definitely signaling

No, you are just giving them the power to actually do stuff without looking like they are doing stuff.

As long as they talk the talk, they don't have to walk the walk. You don''t have to actually care about issues, that's what the DEI department is for.