# A serious question for Sam Stone on Factual Errors

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**Created:** [December 11, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881 "2021-12-11T12:32:19Z")\
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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> There was the woman part. But you kmow that.

Actually, the big claim you made was that

> [@Hypothetical: Trump ineligible, who emerges?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-trump-ineligible-who-emerges/994954/60):
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> It’s the only reason Kamala Harris is there.

That’s what you should retract, because this claim has two implicit parts:

1. Kamala Harris is there because she’s a woman and a minority; and
2. There’s no other reason she’s there.

You’ve given some support for the first half of the first proposition and retracted the second half of the first proposition, but completely ignored the second proposition. It’s a pernicious idea that speaks of racist bias on your part, a very common sort of racist bias, and you’d do well to address it.

I don’t expect you address this funny bit:

> [@Hypothetical: Trump ineligible, who emerges?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-trump-ineligible-who-emerges/994954/60):
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> Minorities and women are treated like anyone else in the Republican party.

“Anyone else” is a great phrase here. Minorities are treated like anyone else (by which you mean white people?), and women are treated like anyone else (by which you mean men?)? “Anyone else” means, as near as I can tell, straight white men.

There’s an idea in bias, the invisible default, in which the group with relative power is presumed to be natural and just the default state of humanity, and everyone else is a deviation from that default. Try rephrasing what you said to make it less invisible:

> [@](#):
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> White men are treated like anyone else in the Republican party.

Does that sound true to you?

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