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remarkable that they New Republic would appear to celebrate the restriction of services on the basis of sex and skin color.

They don't. That's exactly the sort of tendentious detail-plucking and overinterpretation the site guidelines ask you to avoid.

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>The explicit intentions aren’t enough, though, and in fact at times the group has served the opposite purpose.

The tone suggests "gosh darnit, a cis white man was able to connect with a fellow hobbyist when he shouldn't have".

I don't think it suggests anything of the sort but even if it did suggest it to someone - again, there's a guideline and a million moderator comments about not looking for a single irritant to respond to in an article. Especially if the response to the irritant is essentially a trope in itself.

The frustration you're feeling is that, no matter how obvious the tone or implication, advocates will never acknowledge that it is real because what you are describing is a phenomenon that cannot exist.

It's gaslighting.

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