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How does a community support organization/forum meant to help an underrepresented group of people participate in an industry increasing the discrimination of that industry? They're not stopping you from applying for the same jobs or committing to the same open source projects.

Might as well bark up the AARP tree for discriminating against people under 55.

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it's like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound, it does nothing to fix the underlying problem.

Why do we need a society of black engineers when we already have a society of engineers? Willingly Segregating yourself off from the rest of the engineering community does nothing to help the general engineering community to accept black engineers.

That was the other posters point. You may not agree with it, but don't act as if there's no validity to it.

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