So yeah...
Once upon a time, as a white male in my 20s in the tech industry for a crown corporation in a vastly dominated male industry, where we were told we needed to hire a lot more women and to make sure to identify as indigenous to meet a quota, I once thought that reverse discrimination and employment equity was a huge injustice.
I have since been married to a woman of visible minority, and see first hand the systemic racism embedded in our Canadian society that women of visible minority face on a daily subconscious level. Where she would be flown in and paid for interviews only to be rejected for not being a fit. The only thing that changed is that it was an in person interview instead of over the phone (she was using her Canadian sounding married name and doesn't have an accent)
From difference on what last name is used, to video interviews yielding 0% success, they are so blatant you can set a watch to how a reaction will be.
I have made several posts about it in the systemic racism thread that is part of our culture that we refuse to action on.
And then you see stories like the Blizzard sex scandal ones.
Makes a heterosexual white male's rant seem rather stupid and oblivious to why the employment equity act is a thing. Even if it's a poor policy in practice and impacts some industries unfairly, it's trying to fix a systemic issue that does fully exist.
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