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Please stop treating social issues like this as if they're Physics. There is no clear path to an answer and the more we try to reason and argue about these topics logically the more futile the attempt, it's like kicking harder and harder while in stuck in quicksand.

The effects of trying to find the truth show themselves as bi-products that affect culture and society in unhealthy and unforeseen ways. You can never know the intent of someone or why they act the way they do, you can only guess and even that takes a special type of person who feels comfortable enough doing so (reads lawyers) and a framework that encourages such speculation (legal system [0] or stock market.) Speculative systems are toxic and are festering ground for bias. If we want to live in a world ruled by truth and facts ironically the way to do it is not by forcing ourselves to understand something that is not Physics as if it is and by the same methods.

Ignore everything that pops up on these topics if your goal is to create a better society for all.

[0] some legal cases are clear cut, I'm not referring to those.