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>groups of hackers have actually been much more on the homogenous side

>it's overwhelmingly white, male, able-bodied and middle-class, straight). And IMHO, a lack of diversity

Nice job. I think you managed to touch just about all the bases in the buzzword lottery.

"You're wrong because you used buzzwords" is no better than a buzzword itself. Can you address their actual point?

What point? Let me inform you of something. When I was growing up, I remember quite clearly being teased and bullied because I liked to read a lot and I liked messing around with computers. The peer group I surrounded myself with were other people just like me who also put up with the merciless bullying. Everybody else self-selected out of my peer group and did everything they could to make me feel lesser because of my interests. But now all of a sudden the internet and smartphones catch on and now coding is "cool". And the same people that selected themselves out of my group now accuse me of being "xenophobic" and "homogeneous". The fucking gall.

These are not buzzword. The words have a precise meaning.

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