YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says

Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by ghostbrainalpha on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:22PM (#16497698)

All good options.

But don't forget to represent people of different body types by weight and height as well.

As a very short, fat, and white dude who can't jump...but has a decent jumper, I still want my shot at Lebron James in the NBA.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by wqnt on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:38PM (#16497800)

If I understand it correctly, it is only discrimination if employer cannot demonstrate the criteria are needed for work performance. Race and gender are not related to performance in most work categories. In the case of body types in sports, they are.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by the_grue on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:48PM (#16497856)

And so are problem-solving skills, relevant experience and education in STEM. Is it anyone's fault that white/asian males happen to have more of it than other groups?

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by ghostbrainalpha on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:20PM (#16503561)

I get relevant experience, but are saying that general problem solving skills are race based?

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by the_grue on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:14PM (#16505758)

Experience is not the same as problem-solving skills. And I never said they were "race based".

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