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> Membership in a group doesn't preclude discrimination against that group.

No, but groups generally don't discriminate against themselves when they are the majority and hold the positions of authority?

> If they're trying to promote a broader scope of cultural experience in their writers, then perhaps it's better to discriminate based on experience, not ethnicity.

> broader scope of cultural experience

> not ethnicity

Care to define "cultural experience" and how it differs from ethnicity?

> they have completely excluded an entire segment of candidates

If you're going to carry on with that narrative, would you explain why you don't agree with my above rejection of such narrative? They are not excluding, they are valuing diversity since they have a lack of it.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594378