While improving diversity in tech is certainly very important, I think there are still a great many needs to be resolved before we can consider it the next step

While improving diversity in tech is certainly very important, I think there are still a great many needs to be resolved before we can consider it the next step in civil rights. Even if you consider same-sex marriage a done deal as the final pieces start to fall in the place, trans* people often can't even use the bathroom of their gender, for fucks sake. And then also there's voter-restriction laws, trying to revert progress the civil rights movement has made. So yeah, diversity in tech is important, but to call it "the next step in civil rights" seems pretty disingenuous to me.