What are they seething about? Having a program in a company to actively advance diversity does nothing to hurt those who are already there. I'm a prof in a physics department and I once said at a department meeting we needed to hire some women because on diversity, our numbers were lagging. I was told that I was talking about disadvantaging men. I thought... well maybe, but we are already here, so it's not going to hurt us... I'm talking about advantaging a group that I'd like to see more f in my profession.