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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by zimpenfish on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:02AM (#16500799)
> How about we judge people on their merits ?

That's fine if everyone starts from the same base and has the same opportunities which, currently, they most assuredly do not. Let's knock this privileged bullshit on the head until then.

Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by foobardeveloper on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:04AM (#16501391)
Human society will NEVER provide absolute equal opportunity to everybody. If you want that, please first work on rethinking capitalism.It's not practical and has been tried in the past.

Some of these Asian males may have come out of abject poverty in countries like India - worked all their lives for a chance at better living, were that given the "same" opportunity ?

Please stop this entitled thinking. We should aim to get all kids high quality education, not social engineering in the job market.

Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by zimpenfish on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:22AM (#16501516)
> Human society will NEVER provide absolute equal opportunity to everybody.

I know. Which is why "just judge people by their merits" is a nonsense argument.

> We should aim to get all kids high quality education, not social engineering in the job market.

But since there's little chance of the former happening within the next decade or two, we're stuck with the latter.

Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by manigandham on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:27AM (#16501173)
That will never happen. Life isn't fair and never will be, just by virtue of the natural world itself.

We can and should do our best to clear the way to ensure equal opportunity (not outcome) but it's important to realize what is actually reasonable and achievable vs impossible.

Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by zimpenfish on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:21AM (#16501505)
> That will never happen. Life isn't fair and never will be

And that's why "we should just judge people on their merits" is a bullshit statement.

> We can and should do our best to clear the way to ensure equal opportunity

I am 100% behind this if it actually results in equal opportunities (spoiler: it never will.)