Eg when Crenshaw discourages saying 'I am a person who happens to be black' & saying instead 'I am black'.
Case by case. She's not had any problems getting employed or experienced racism at work. Her mother did face some. There was evidence.
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She finds herself more conservative than me & much more so than her colleagues. Might be Hindu culture she was raised in.
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You probably also agree that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Sure but we cannot assume racism and/or sexism on the basis of not being able to prove it doesn't exist. Just lose all credibility.
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There are philosophical (and also scientific) limits to being able to relate social phenomena to concrete individual cases.
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Yes. Often because they're not relevant. I have to go out now but I think we've come to an end anyway. Just getting very vague now.
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(“Often because they’re not relevant” is a statistical statement about the unknown and uninvestigated.) Thanks for the chat!

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No, often is not really statistical. I suspect I think race & gender is relevant to way fewer outcomes than you do.
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We might also disagree about whether seeing race & gender as hugely significant to very many things will help reduce discrimination.
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I find them useful as frames of reference that I can apply consciously to ask questions about concrete cases. (Not give answers)
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