It really speaks to the viewership of HN that many of these comments are negative, along the theme of 'Discrimination against white males is just as bad as anything other form of discrimination.' This person definitely went overboard, but given the last 300 years of race in North America, discriminating in one set of hires for one company is potentially a great thing. It's amazing that the Canadian constitution literally calls this out in support of it. When you have certain groups of people that you can look at and say 'Ok that person has a much lower chance of success in life than I, just look at them', something is wrong with your country, and people supporting diversity are taking a step in the right direction.

Heres the bit from the Canadian charter of rights "Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability."