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March 21st, 2009 - 02:18 am
Well, automatic expertise is probably taking it farther than I would; they have a different qualitative experience with these issues due to their experiences, but everyone's experiences are different. This is why minorities should be listened to, but not taken as automatically right; where you have a multiplicity of minority voices in broad concordance, you must assume they're going to be right.

In part, I say this because otherwise you are stuck with "my black friend said this is okay so it's fine and not racist at all", where perhaps one black person has said that, for reasons we can't identify - like the black Republican defending the "Barack the Magic Negro" thing - but a vast majority of black people have said That's Wrong, and therefore authority goes to the majority.
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