I've long come to the conclusion that religion is a bootstrapping mechanism: it was something we needed in the past in order to jump over a threshold, and for the last thousand years or two, it's been obsolete and holding us back instead.
Not all of these are bad inherently, but some things about the world are changing. A hacker wields mystical power of mythical proportions that literally(don't we hate that word) scares the bejeesus out of the Power Elite. They respond with prejudice and who can blame them. Those in power will never willingly give it up.
Ethical or white hat hacking is just a foreign concept. They only see potential abuses, and threats to their power.
Don't forget white man and black man, cisgendered and trans, hetero and homosexual, sexual and asexual. I'm guessing you stand on the side of the powerful in at least one of these.