We don't get to date without discrimination. Nor, I think, would you take applicants without your own discrimination.
We're all actively discriminating against those who don't have the faculty or propensity to code or engineer as they would lower the productivity of our software teams. Discrimination here is healthy for the good of the whole.
I wouldn't not discriminate against doctors when they have to pass their licensing exams.
Accept that some adversities are built into the gradients of life. Some are unjust and we can do things about them. Others just are and you'll do better to just keep trucking along.
Don't tell these founders not to build their thing.
Where did I tell them not to build it?
> We're all actively discriminating against those who don't have the faculty or propensity to code or engineer as they would lower the productivity of our software teams. Discrimination here is healthy for the good of the whole.
That's not what hiring discrimination is, companies aren't required to hire someone who is not capable of doing a job. That's why you'll see requirements like "ability to lift 50lbs".