I think that built into that assumption is the belief that people of color or women or whatever or someone from a poor background who have the necessary abiliti

I think that built into that assumption is the belief that people of color or women or whatever or someone from a poor background who have the necessary abilities don't exist. In other words, it's working backward from a faulty indicator: There are very few women in tech, which proves there are very few women who are capable of being good engineers. Likewise, there are several times more black men in prison per capita than white people, thus black men commit crimes at a rate much higher than white people. There is some evidence that people actually process information this way, even though it is a logical fallacy, or at the very least is operating on correlation as though it is causation. In case anyone was wondering: Both of those examples are false, and are provably false, based on research from a variety of fields. In short: The negativity probably stems from a misogyny and bigotry, without being aware of the misogyny or bigotry.