Welp, MysticCat said everything I was going to say.
I will add that there is a balance between treating white and male as the neutral standards versus focusing too much on the experiences of nonwhites and females. The latter can make it seem as though their experiences skew the results and that only nonwhites and nonmales have any potential for irrationality and nonobjectivity in their decision making.
White males' decisions are just as impacted by race, gender, social class, other status group memberships and experiences as any other judges' decisions.
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