A few more words: this new-found fixation on skin colour (and gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and all those other identities picked up or made up by those who practice intersectionality) really needs to be dropped right now or we - as in what used to be called 'the west' - risk falling back to the way things were in the 60's or earlier, depending on which country you're talking about.

It goes without saying - but needs to be said in the current climate where trigger-happy index fingers try to outdo each other in pointing out -ists and -phobes - that bad policies need to be rejected, bad implementations of good policies need to be corrected, where illegal discrimination is found it needs to be undone and all that jazz. For the rest we - and that means all sides which have been set up against each other - need to drop our verbal tomahawks, look those people on the other side of the barricades in their eyes and tell them we should try to agree on disagreeing on some points but that we mostly share a common goal and should do our best to reach it without getting it each others way too much while getting there. We can take different paths, some of us may be quicker to get there than others and it is up to us all to make sure those who really can't make it on their own are given a helping hand but one thing should be clear from the get-go: if our first step is to identify everyone who is not in our specific and ever-narrowing in-group as enemies the only thing we'll be good at is creating more discontent and chaos.

I don't think that's true at all. Engineers are not some sect of logical beings that don't have human emotions and foibles. I think they're just as likely to be discriminatory as anyone else.