Tech is arguably the way it is right now thanks to this nonsense. Diversity as practiced by the progressives is another word for "regression to the mean," which is why bootcampers were considered equivalent to computer science graduates, and vibe coders, senior software engineers. Selection for people at the tails of the distribution is discrimination, and therefore bigotry.

Programming doesn't require intelligence. Those with high IQ are not predisposed for knowledge work, nor are those with low IQ barred from it - IQ doesn't even exist, humans are all equitably fungible, and with the LLM you can identify with any career you want - no practice necessary.