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It's a fallacy to believe you can fight discrimination with more discrimination. But then that isn't the only fallacy you're promoting is it...

• Brian_K_White 4y ago
  It's a fallacy to ignore that an existing bias reinforces itself and requires active counter force to change it. There are all kinds of well understood factors that influence women to avoid many typically male populated environments that are caused by the men and not by the women's simple innate disinterest in the topic. They are voluntarily choosing to avoid being abused and insulted and disrespected, not voluntarily choosing not to be engineers or competitive gamers or whatever.
• didibus 4y ago
  As a side note, you can't use the word fallacy as a synonym for wrong. A fallacy is when your arguments don't actually prove that the conclusion is right, yet convinces people that it is. It's an error in reasoning that leads you to believe the conclusion derives from the premise, when it doesn't. It doesn't even mean the conclusion is wrong, just that it doesn't derive from the premise and arguments and as such hasn't actually been proven right. So you should say: "It's wrong to believe you can fight discrimination with more discrimination". Because"that X can be fought with a variation of X" isn't fallacious, this is a logical possibility. A variation of X could in some circumstances be used used to fight X. There's no error in logic here.