That's the thing...and this is my personal opinion, not the opinion of the org or even the other organizers. I think we can't police it. >
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understand+agree,just saying thatn ot all people who say unexpectedly sexist things are sexists. Need to keep dialogue open in order to grow
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You're saying sexists can't be characterised by the sexist messages they post? Is this some kind of sexism essentialism?

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I'm saying conditional probabilities matter. P(sexist comment|sexist) is high, but P(sexist|sexist comment) not necessarily so.
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And I'm really bad with -isms so not sure what you mean by sexist essentialism (honestly)
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I proposed you're playing with words since we can't read people's minds only their words. I'm claiming you are trying a No True Scotsman.
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Sorry that you see it that way. Really have good intentions because this is similar to terrorism muslim profiling.
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Terrorists are muslim but not all muslims are terrorists. ~many sexists make sexist comments but not all sexist comments are made by sexists
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Correction: many terrorists are muslim. Woops! :-)
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