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The lack of diversity in the tech industry is definitely something that will be harmful in the long run.

My intuition is that the harm has already been done, but we will only fully understand it 10 years hence.

Making people afraid of speaking their minds can hardly help the flow of new ideas or positively impact the industry.

There seem to be a lot of people online who have been indoctrinated to believe that pressuring/intimidating/shaming people into compliance is a useful means of changing people's minds. History tells us that it never works that way. You change people's minds through friendly interaction, by living and working with them.