[age_30_euro_mal]

Your first sentence seems mis-worded, but there are two answers to your question.

Firstly, it's unethical and morally abhorrent to discriminate on the basis of age, heritage, and gender in general employment markets.

Secondly, the laws exist making illegal these types of hiring discrimination because ethical behavior doesn't come naturally to many people making hiring decisions.

The very-sheltered may have never seen it, but there is a great deal of bigotry out there.

The history of these issues for workers is ugly and bloody. People died to get us to where we are today.

[xarball]

Hiring discrimination is not the same thing as advertising/outreach.

You are free to to apply to any company you want, and they are legally required to judge you on the basis of your skills (equality of opportunity). They are not legally required to hire you on the basis of any demographic you fall into (no equality of outcome).

If 60% of your workforce came from European universities, while 40% other universities -- are you required to advertise to them all equally? What if that 60% figure came about on its own, with no external influence on your part. Maybe they have more international renown for the skills your company just happens to desire? Would you spend the same advertising budget on both institutions?

Sometimes these things happen on their own, But pretending that the businesses doing outreach are 100% accountable for "SOLVING" every demographic composition is simply not vested in reality, especially when these things weren't necessarily broken in the first place.

Presuming bigotry can be in itself a form of intolerance -- we need to be careful!

[whoa_there_bud]

> They are not legally required to hire you on the basis of any demographic you fall into (no equality of outcome).

Huh?

> But pretending that the businesses doing outreach are 100% accountable for "SOLVING" every demographic composition is simply not vested in reality

Uhh....

You're arguing against things none of the ancestors have argued.

You use an example (geographic location of a university), however that is not a protected class under US labor law.

> Presuming bigotry can be in itself a form of intolerance

There certainly are bigots running companies, and in hiring committees. Even in Enlightened Silicon Valley! Ignoring that fact is one of the reasons Facebook now faces a federal lawsuit with substantial merit.