> That it's supposed to be empowering the disadvantaged / marginalized.

I was born Canadian. The CAD (before "you'll forgive me if I don't think about monetary policy" [0]) and Canadian passport are (were) exorbitant privileges that come for free as a consequence of this. I had the time to obsess over computers as a middle class kid, and went to a good school for compsci. The admissions process at that time had zero mention of race or DIE bullshit.

But just because I am not white, I am automatically "disadvantaged" and "marginalized." You don't know shit about computing, you're one of THOSE minorities! We need to give you a boost because you can't actually do anything on your own.

Nobody believes that you are competent when whites are manifestly hiring you not for your skills, but your race. I might as well be another fake vibe coder "identifying" as a software engineer with a hallucinated CV.

It's insulting. You're going to pass judgment about my merits and competence, whether or not I am "disadvantaged" or "marginalized," purely based on my race and my appearance as a "visible minority"?

That's fucking racist. Progressivism, and its obsession with race, is racist. Your "good intentions" don't justify racism, no matter how hard you torture the English language into asserting that 2 + 2 = 5, freedom is slavery, and men are women. Go to hell.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VOLChLKG4

For someone whinging about torturing language, you're the one asserting that compensating for racism is racism [0], while also proudly exclaiming that since your background was reasonably alright, other people from your ethnic class shouldn't be helped, so as to not hurt your precious little ego.

Tough crowd.

[0] and funnily enough, I agree! I just also think that if you believe there's a way out of this that isn't racist, you're a moron.