Ask HN: Why are some US companies/non-profits allowed to openly discriminate?
Here&#x27;s what people get wrong about discrimination laws IMHO.<p>If you accept the premise that humans are anything significantly more than just a sum total of arbitrary biological attributes that they can&#x27;t control i.e. skin color, gender, sexual orientation, etc. then you have to admit that diversity or anti-discrimination laws are the antithesis of what they claim to be. This is because the laws actively reduce individuals to a minutiae of attributes which the people themselves cannot control and then judge those people based on this gross reduction, actively ignoring - in this diversity equation - personal character, abilities, achievements, and essentially everything which an individual can indeed manipulate and claim some responsibility for.<p>On top of this ill-defined diversity metric, the laws draw broad generalizations of groups and apply them always and only to individuals, regardless of the wants and desires of the particular individual. Thus, the proponents of anti-discrimination always speak of &quot;whites&quot; or &quot;blacks&quot; or &quot;men&quot; or &quot;women&quot;, but at the end of the day it is a particular person who is given a job and another particular person who is refused a job all based on absolutely nothing which either one of them could control.<p>To me this seems to be the worst form of discrimination, for it is completely unfounded and truly morally malevolent.