<story><title>YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positions-excluded-white-and-asian-males-lawsuit-says-1519948013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieltillett</author><text>The thing I hate about actions like this is what it does to talented people who fit some diversity quota checklist, both in the perception they have of themselves and those of other people. If you are a talented melanin-rich woman you are going to face both heightened impostor syndrome and dismissal by others that you only got the job because of some quota. Not good for anyone.&lt;p&gt;There are no easy solutions, but it would help I think if all effort was concentrated on removing hurdles rather than patching problems downstream with lazy fixes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatyoucantsay</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The thing I hate about actions like this is what it does to talented people who fit some diversity quota checklist, both in the perception they have of themselves and those of other people. If you are a talented melanin-rich woman you are going to face both heightened impostor syndrome and dismissal by others that you only got the job because of some quota. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The thing I hate about it is that it involves rejecting candidates on the basis of the colour of their skin.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positions-excluded-white-and-asian-males-lawsuit-says-1519948013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieltillett</author><text>The thing I hate about actions like this is what it does to talented people who fit some diversity quota checklist, both in the perception they have of themselves and those of other people. If you are a talented melanin-rich woman you are going to face both heightened impostor syndrome and dismissal by others that you only got the job because of some quota. Not good for anyone.&lt;p&gt;There are no easy solutions, but it would help I think if all effort was concentrated on removing hurdles rather than patching problems downstream with lazy fixes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0255</author><text>Tell that to the white and asian males who get rejected on the basis of their race and gender despite having worked their entire lives to be the most qualified and technically adept candidate.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure impostor syndrome is a problem they would love to have.&lt;p&gt;Instead they got the entire course of their careers (and lives) stepped on by bigoted racists and sexists.&lt;p&gt;I know your comment has to be the top one because it turns this whole thing back into more sympathy for women and minorities, but this is literally an article about white and asian males being overtly discriminated against on the basis of race and gender. Can &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; of the conversation be about that?</text></comment>