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yeah because you can't talk about this stuff openly without getting cancelled, unless you aren't white or male.


> unless you aren't white or male.

Kind of says something when this is seen as an exceptional case, given that a significant majority of people aren't white men...


Whites are about 70% of American, and half of those are men, so in American, yeah they are. This is an American site, and the context of these conversations are America, so there's nothing exceptional about this.


That works out to 35%. We seem to be in agreement?


> unless you aren't white or male

You mentioned that this was seen as an exceptional case. It is exceptional. The vast majority of americans are white or male.


Ah, I parsed your statement as NOT (white OR male) rather than (NOT white) OR (NOT male). The former being roughly 35% and the latter 85% of the population




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