I don’t have anything wrong with hiring diverse people, it’s woke people I don’t like, and there’s a very big difference. Even then, it’s only a dealbreaker if it actually seeps into the content itself, which like I said is unlikely.
Apologies in advance for veering off-topic, but what does woke mean?
Over the past three years I’ve heard the word bandied about, but I don’t know what it means.
It depends who’s using it. Those who self-describe as woke mean it in the sense of being aware and vigilant about social justice issues (by which is usually meant racism, feminism, LGBTQ issues, etc.). Those who use it as a derogatory term or who see it negatively usually have in mind a particular sort of left-wing intolerance for anything that deviates from being strongly affirmative of LGBTQ rights (including things like pronoun usage), affirmative action, white privilege, equality of outcome for women, (democratic) socialism, etc. Most of academia at present could be described as woke (at least in my experience of Canadian universities).