I think every one stands for thinks like diversity and inclusivity until they have to put some thing very personal on the line to lose.
At some point in time you just have to be ok with the best people to the job, doing their jobs. This doesn't even have to be controversial. If you can't do open heart surgery, you can't do it. You shouldn't be allowed to do it. People shouldn't be asked to be ok with not wanting to be treated by sub-standard doctors. I wouldn't be happy with boarding an airplane built by bad engineers, or drive on a bridge built by bad engineers.
This is where it gets controversial. In some places the best person to do the job might not necessarily have the same religious, political, social, racial, economical or whatever view you associate with.
OTOH, you need some of these heroes to run things for you. Don't get me wrong, if everybody could be writing a emacs or gcc, they would already be writing it. Pretty much anything that anyone would need to do something awesome with a computer today is free. The barrier is you.
I'm genuinely interested to know how you would know if an airplane was built by bad engineers, and which ones you personally consider to be safe/unsafe. I think I would go on any aircraft if the pilot was good, as the basic principles of aerodynamics generally result in stable and predictable controls. Putting a twist in an elevator cable is probably the least obvious way for a bad/malicious engineer to make a good airplane dangerous. But I don't think any layperson could have predicted the Boeing 737 MAX 8 failures, as they were caused by invisible problems in the computer control systems; the physical appearance of the aircraft doesn't look too unusual.
At some point in time you just have to be ok with the best people to the job, doing their jobs. This doesn't even have to be controversial. If you can't do open heart surgery, you can't do it. You shouldn't be allowed to do it. People shouldn't be asked to be ok with not wanting to be treated by sub-standard doctors. I wouldn't be happy with boarding an airplane built by bad engineers, or drive on a bridge built by bad engineers.
This is where it gets controversial. In some places the best person to do the job might not necessarily have the same religious, political, social, racial, economical or whatever view you associate with.
OTOH, you need some of these heroes to run things for you. Don't get me wrong, if everybody could be writing a emacs or gcc, they would already be writing it. Pretty much anything that anyone would need to do something awesome with a computer today is free. The barrier is you.