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by reilly3000 1905 days ago
The whole point is that it IS related. Country club settings are historically a bastion of racism, and there is a modern corollary here. I think the burden falls on you to prove its not related.
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You cannot prove non-existence - the burden is in fact on proving it _is_ related.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Proving...

This kind of "racist until proven otherwise" thinking is really not helping anything
It's Kafka-esque
Stereotyping is prejudging someone.

Racism is prejudging someone.

Don't prejudge.

Btw, what do you call "ethnic prejudice" when it's not race-based : like Muslim semites vs Jewish semites or Protestant whites vs Catholic whites (Irish, Latinos)... and I'm not sure that religion is particularly important for the last two ones where the US is concerned?