At this time, our platform is only open to individuals who identify as Black, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American.
I wonder if I could sue because I am now being discriminated against?
Funnier yet, they make you pick gender between "male" and "female"....no other options...
And further... The birth year selection box only goes down to 1950, so nobody over a certain age either...
Very diverse, guys....
It would behoove you to first try to empathize with those who did live in these kinds of places & learn about the history of education & discrimination in America. Then you may have some better perspective on why there are systemic reasons for why the diversity numbers for technology companies is so low (and maybe you would get an idea of why thats even important).
Good companies will ALWAYS source candidates from many possible routes. The worst companies now are the ones that only hire friends and family or people with "culture fit" (often thinly veiled term for "reminds me of me"). Those are not hiring from a very large pool. There is no company doing the opposite ("I will only hire people not referred by friends"), and to complain about a possible straw man future where Jopwell becomes a monopoly, putting Dice, Craigslist, and every individual recruiter out of business is laughably easy to dismiss.
I haven't looked at Hacker News much recently, and I had a self-imposed 2 year ban on visiting it that I kept to until then. Comments like this are literally making me tear up and wish I hadn't come back. :(
It's gotten to the point where most of my friends go "ugh, why do you still read that slop?" and my only remotely defensible answer is "because somebody should argue against the horrible shit that gets said." That's not much of a reason.
Sure, you can sue for any reason at all.
Whether you can win a lawsuit (or even get it past an early demurrer or motion to dismiss) is a different question.
Would you elaborate here a bit please?
dmitrygr said "I wonder if I could sue because I am now being discriminated against?" Can you answer this without considering dmitrygr?
Edit: oh, I get it now. Regardless of what one thinks of his argument, it was clear what dmitrygr meant by that, so those personal details didn't add any necessary information. Meanwhile, the damage caused by using someone else's personal details as ammunition is a big deal. We can't allow that to become a thing—nothing would destroy the discourse faster. So, from a moderation point of view: low benefit, high cost, bad idea.