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by dinkumthinkum 5084 days ago
Yeah, it's not about playing favorites, good try though. It's about actually helping a specific group. Under this view, we should just have

"Help Kids learn to code"

or, maybe that is agist

"Help People learn to code"

I won't be pedantic and claim maybe you won't like the emphasis on "people," I'll stop there. The problem is that I think you could demonstrate that such a broad/general program would not be as effective as one focused on this particular or similar groups ("bald hispanic men under 40" as someone else so eloquently put is not a serious group).

There is something qualitative about the world and social interactions that is completely missed by this simplistic mentality; this sort of thing is always couched in logic but it is argument free of any necessary context.