> I look around at those who have made it, and the majority are white males from stable middle-class backgrounds. This stability and security, this confidence t

> I look around at those who have made it, and the majority are white males from stable middle-class backgrounds. This stability and security, this confidence that a supportive family gives, this safety that a low-crime area brings, access to materials and space in which to learn, this reinforcement at every step that you are surrounded by "people like you" and that you deserve to be there... is such a huge thing that is taken for granted. You imply that white people are privileged because they're white, yet look at this sentence. It seems to me like poor white people _don't_ go into tech. Couldn't socioeconomic/cultural differences explain the discrepancies and not systemic racism/sexism/-ism? Just because statistically more white people grow up middle class does _not_ mean that all white people are privileged. Acting like they are is discriminatory.