I get why an engineering department might want to do something, anything to help combat injustice, and apparently this was the best they could come up with. But

I get why an engineering department might want to do something, anything to help combat injustice, and apparently this was the best they could come up with. But there's an almost comedic disproportionality between the scale of the problems, and these kinds of 'solutions', like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. In the US, black people are massively incarcerated, get shot for going jogging, get killed in police custody at 4-5 times the rate of white people, die due to lack of healthcare, and make up mostly the bottom of the wealth pyramid in a society where redistribution is a dirty word, real median purchasing power has been declining for decades, televised propaganda is selling white people their own fear and bigotry back at them so they'll vote for politicians who will pass massive tax cuts, and dismantle any social safety nets that might have given the lower class a fighting chance at social mobility, oh and to top it off the White House is occupied by an incompetent, narcissist bigot who was helped to get there by a foreign adversary in order to sow chaos and discord in their biggest geopolitcal rival. But you know, at least nobody needs to be offended by reading the word 'grandfathered' in source code... It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. I say this with love, as a dirty pinko European lefty, but it really feels like a large part of the Left in the US is so daunted by the enormity of achieving social justice in a society that is growing ever more injust (and is almost religiously opposed to attempts to improve it) that they have just resigned themselves to thought policing their own ranks for wokeness, because actually turning the ship around seems damn near impossible at this point.