The problem both of your opinions have is they ignore the baseline improved treatment straight white dudes like myself get. We get better treatment and preferential hiring just by existing. I’m not afraid to talk to anyone in the tiny sithole towns I go to for work. I’ve have so many people walk past my boss and talk to me because he wears a turban, or my other boss getting talked over because she is a women. These examples aren’t directly related to hiring, but you are blind if you don’t see the obvious advantages we have.

Altria, formerly Philip Morris, still allows smoking in their buildings as of a few years ago. It’s trippy to book a non-smoking room in the 2020s.

This tracks with my experiences.

Dumbest person I met in grad school was upper Indian caste. I wrote a paper he slapped his name on and rehashed several times to get his PhD in mechanical engineering. He didn’t understand basic concepts we learn before entering the engineering program, still has a PhD because money.

Foreign teams that have US degrees within my company also match your description. We give them a task expecting a full days work in their opposite time zone. Instead they work for 15 minutes, get confused, send a single question to us, and stop working for the rest of the day. They are less than worthless, always costing more time to clean up after than they save.

A mom broke up with her boyfriend. He returned later and killed her 3 kids, then her, then himself. The oldest son was in my class.

I wasn’t great friends with him, but I knew him well enough to feel bad about it. So many people who hated him pretended to be sad for attention.