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Re:Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020) by Zababa on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:12PM (#29279536)
> I have never received a satisfactory answer for why a lot of people from these fields are all about "Everyone should learn to code" initiatives, but not, say "Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist", or "Everyone should learn to be a copy editor".

It's easy: they want to protect their field. This is basically a "not in my backyard" movement. "X industry should be more diverse. Not mine, because that would means more competition for me."

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Re:Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020) by gorwell on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:00PM (#29280209)
It's also a large amount of psychological projection and intra elite jockeying.

Naval hit the nail on the head here: `The whole Social Justice Warrior-ing trend seems like a case of white-on-white violence.`

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1132170896817266688

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