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PhasmaFelis ◴[] No.8720237[source]
I wanted to point out one of their conclusions in particular:

> 1. Small individual bias → Large collective bias.

> When someone says a culture is shapist, they're not saying the individuals in it are shapist. They're not attacking you personally.

This is a really important point that gets a lot of arguments hung up on nonproductive "not all men"-type fooforaw lately. If someone says that e.g. gamer culture is sexist, or even if they (perhaps inadvisably) use shorthand and say "gamers are sexist," they are not saying that I and every other single person who plays games is personally sexist.

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1. saraid216 ◴[] No.8720339[source]
Yeah, one of the first things I noticed was that while the obvious analogy was race in a neighborhood, there was another fairly easy analogy for gender in a workplace.