sexist: women use guns less in suicide because they're worried their corpse won't be attractive not sexist: women avoiding guns in suicide is further evidence of how pervasive and mighty the grip of social pressures on women's appearances. (cont...)
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Racist: "Black people do more crime" Not racist: "Black people do more crime because poverty causes crime, and black people have been historically disenfranchised which resulted in severe poverty."
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Racist: "Native americans get drunk and beat each other" "Not racist: "Yeah, because they were literally wiped out/kinda genocided, and restricted to tiny reservations which resulted in intense poverty, no shit they have high alcohol rates and low mental health support"
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Sexist: "Men oppress women" Not sexist: "Because society has reinforced that - men who don't show their strength sufficiently are mocked instead of given social support"
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If you interpret "who's in a culture's shithouse" as "who hasn't traditionally been a marginalized group" then sure but that's an odd way of phrasing that.
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The pressure to specify these things arises from the fact that, absent those clarifications, the statements reinforce existing prejudices (e.g., that women are inherently shallow and vain). Seems like a pretty good idea to me.
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