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Re:I'm not a Woman in Tech by ams6110 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:54PM (#14704058)
The 1960s were 50 years ago. You won't experience that today (with very rare exceptions), and that's a good thing. But we can't be forever fixated on things that we've moved past.
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Re:I'm not a Woman in Tech by swampangel on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @01:29PM (#14704409)
1. The purpose was to illustrate the difference between white-only discrimination (the origin of our current discrimination laws) and modern exclusive group events.

2. There are lots of people who lived through the Civil Rights movement alive today, and segregation and the associated attitudes didn't disappear overnight. Do you think 70 year old politicians carry no baggage from their upbringing and early adulthood?

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