If you hire based on merit you can't hire based on filling diversity quotas. Either the most qualified person gets the position or they don't. If you are hiring someone over another for the sole reason of the colour of their skin or genitalia you're a racist and/or a sexist.
You didn't read my post, I guess.
Let's try again: show me in the article where somebody says a quota was being imposed.
The qualifications of the grant are discriminatory. The prof refused to hire in a discriminatory manner and was refused the grant.
Yeah - you were duped by the article and then didn't read my post. Serves me right for taking the time to give you a full response. As you were.