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by oh_sigh 2448 days ago
> For one thing, I don't feel "out of place" among non-white non-male people

This seems like your own biases are your worst enemy then. So a predictor of your comfort is the non-white, non-maleness of the group? I wonder what this predictor would be called if it was black men that made you feel uncomfortable?

You really feel equally "in place" among a group of Hmong women as you do among a group of Honduran women as you do among a group of Nigerian women, but you can't get settled in a group of Russian women?

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> So a predictor of your comfort is the non-white, non-maleness of the group?

No. I said "X is not the case", from which you cannot deduce "the opposite of X is true".

Yes, I'm familiar with denying the antecedent. I assumed you weren't just making the "I'm comfortable around non-white, non-male people" as a logical declaration in the vacuum, and not part of any point.