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Discussion on: A Retrospective for Men in Tech

 
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Jason Crabtree

Offering encouragement and support to particular people is not the same as discrimination. Lifting one group up != prejudicing another group.

Discrimination: "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex."

That tweet also doesn't say anything about lowering the bar. Yet you assumed it did — which shows your bias more than anything else.

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Offering encouragement and support to particular people is not the same as discrimination. Lifting one group up != prejudicing another group.

Could you explain this more?