“You will be assimilated” has been upgraded to “you will be REPLACED”
I hate the “under represented” argument. It reminds me of computers in the late 70s through mid 90s. There were no degrees for the most part, and until the 90s very few high schools much less middle schools or kindergardens. It was a brand new bleeding edge field. With no norms no cigar filled rooms, no old boys clubs, and no nepotism. There were no rules or norms. A whole new paradigm to create from scratch. Well, it turned out to be a field dominated by geeky white boys who couldn’t get a date to prom if their lives depended on it and the vast majority of them were self taught. Comes the early nineties when the internet began to explode, but also the mad rush to network every corporation in america, network administrators were so in desperately in demand, you could get a top dollar job even if you had purple and orange polka dot skin with a third arm growing out the back of your head if you could display the barest level of competence. Yet still until the early 2000 it was almost exclusively a world of geeky white boys. Was that because of racism and discrimination? Most of the people who are of that generation who created all the original whiz bang stuff the world takes for granted today, never had a computer at home, nor did they ever take a class on computers, nor had them ubiquitous in their classrooms, so the privelege argument does not fly. People just naturally gravitate to certain things.