Thank you for responding. Many of these threads end up being shouts in the dark.
I truly felt like the "you're not a minority" part of my comment was incidental. My larger point was that in asking people to accept an opinion that is outside the mainstream, or to consider how different your upbringing was, you're asking people to respect a diversity of opinions.
I tried to point out the a big part of the diversity movement is recognizing these diversities, which often come with different genders or different ethnicity.
I truly felt like the "you're not a minority" part of my comment was incidental. My larger point was that in asking people to accept an opinion that is outside the mainstream, or to consider how different your upbringing was, you're asking people to respect a diversity of opinions.
I tried to point out the a big part of the diversity movement is recognizing these diversities, which often come with different genders or different ethnicity.
Maybe I did a poor job of communicating this.