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I totally agree, and I just want to add how often this relates to the legalist arguments of "By law, are men and women not equal? Are minorities not exactly as legally privileged as white people?" The argument is, and has always been, willfully myopic and speaks to a deeper level of racist ideology, e.g. the implicit belief in white superiority because of perceived social standing.I see it as an example of their logic in action. "I am a good, clever man; good men are not discriminatory; clever men are rational; therefore I am not discriminatory and rational; therefore, if I am called out as some sort of -ist or -phobic, it must be because my counterpart is irrational - I am not discriminatory, after all, and very rational".