Google sued over excluding white and Asian men in hiring to boost diversity
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Google is basically just an advertising business. I can understand why a business like that wants to stay hip and cool and "diversified". Kind of like those old H&M ad's ...
HackerNews, does not deal with feminism, affirmative action, or criticising darling companies of anything to do with sexism or racism.
Unless your name is Susan Fowler and you work at Uber.
This will probably just lead to a lot of fighting in the comments.
That and a whole lot of name calling...
1. To just achieve color-blindness.
2. To achieve color-blindness AND help counter-act the cumulative effects of past discrimination.
It is wants to achieve 2, you can't use a purely meritocratic system for college admissions or hiring.