When people are called coconuts or coons or native informants for holding humanist or liberal values as if they can't belong to them too.
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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