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It's not a fallacy if the parent is not making some point about "benefit for other white men", which you seemed to have injected from somewhere. They simply said that the most powerful individuals having the most disproportionate power being white men is not inconsistent with matters in the real world, however few there are.

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> "But casting <a> heterosexual white man is representative of the real world. <Who> has all the power in the real world?"

The original comment obviously did in fact try to make a point about heterosexual white men in general. No mention was made of how few there might be, you're in fact the one interjecting new content from somewhere.

That a few men have most of the power is the obvious fact that you seem to be ignoring. The parent asks:

"Who has all the power in the real world?"

If the answer in reality is a few white men have most of the power, how can you insist that they are claiming all white men have the power?

Whether they believe it not, there is no specific point about "heterosexual white men in general". These are your words and do not appear anywhere in their comment.

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