I don&#x27;t understand this logic, from an age before i even could fathom what &#x27;racism&#x27; or &#x27;sexism&#x27; was i was fascinated by computers and technology<p>during early high school the dot com bubble happened and most of my teachers advised me against going into IT, they talked about low wages, unemployment, constantly re learning as tech progresses, outsourcing job et al<p>girls didn&#x27;t much care for computer guys and they were near the bottom of the social pecking order. in my experience i was an outcast.<p>i was being highly discouraged everywhere i looked, but i didn&#x27;t care one bit, i was doing it because i was interested in it. of course now all of those factors have reversed themselves not that i could have forseen that.<p>my point is that maybe today women and certain races face some of these issues, maybe you could make the argument that they&#x27;re discouraged (seems to me that they&#x27;re encouraged a lot more than i was) but even if we accept that as a truism, which i clearly don&#x27;t, who cares, if these people are no less able let them prove it and this culture of barriers (which i don&#x27;t believe in anyway) will subside.