I do not follow this logic. There are minority and women YC founders who already get the (A) hours.

What the parent is getting at, I think, is that by having explicitly set-aside hours for groups 'B' and 'C', it will create a stigma that groups 'B' and 'C' must attend only those designated hours -- effectively making the "normal" office hours for the "elite' group 'A'.

It seems to me, no matter what way you look at it, separated office hours will perpetuate segregation and bigotry, instead of the desired effect.

The normal office hours ARE elite. They're available only to people who have been accepted into YC. The goal of the program is to make more of those (A) group people members of underrepresented demographics.

YC is a private business of course, but since they started this initiative, wouldn't it be even more efficient to make YC staff itself more diverse? Rather than doing segregated open hours.

Is a recruiting event at CMU "segregated"? If not, how is this worse?

I have no idea what CMU is, sorry.

Carnegie Mellon University.

> it will create a stigma that groups 'B' and 'C' must attend only those designated hours

Any data to support this?

I don't see how, no. Normal hours are still accessible to B and C, too, only now B and C do better in 'normal hours' as they've got a bit of a leg up. Over time B and C become role models, further increasing the presence of B and C in 'normal hours'. At least on paper.