> a big chunk of the tech crowd no matter how much noise they make about inclusivity.
Technology was supposed to reduce these barriers, but in a lot of ways it has magnified them, creating a new pseudo social caste system or perhaps just an extreme shift in the existing order. Noticing that the promise of the 1990s has fallen flat they turn to blind pushes for inclusion as an embarrassed justification for their position in this new order.
I disagree, especially for what the linked article is talking about.
Suppose a business or individual accepts checks and electronic funds transfers for payment.
Are they going to apply their prior probabilities (your various -isms such as racism, etc), in regards to whether or not the payment will actually be successfully received?
Whereas an instant payment and confirmation via the use of internet and databases alleviates this motivation to discriminate.
Technology was supposed to reduce these barriers, but in a lot of ways it has magnified them, creating a new pseudo social caste system or perhaps just an extreme shift in the existing order. Noticing that the promise of the 1990s has fallen flat they turn to blind pushes for inclusion as an embarrassed justification for their position in this new order.