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Dodo Theory: straight cis white men from nice families are the worst at threat assessment because they are subject to fewer threats than everybody else. They’re flightless island birds who are vulnerable to unexpected rats. Unfortunately, most US government intelligence specialists are dodos.

Even if you put rights and ethics aside, you’d be a fool to mostly hire straight white cis Christian men to assess general threats - you need a very diverse group with a diverse set of experiences

you absolutely want trans people and furries and racial minorities on your team because they have been forced to get very good at threat assessment to survive

meanwhile, an upper middle class Mormon white boy from Sandy, Utah has been subject to the threat of, what, his favorite ice cream sundae place closing too early on Sunday

though this might be even more linked to holding hierarchical and individualistic views, which white men are more likely to hold than other people https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/white-male-effect

As former mil intel, here is one major gatekeeping issue. Security clearance process winnows out those with records. Records that may be them as victims responding to their environment, escaping their environment and outsized responses to benign events not applied to cis white males.