Jacqui- I didn't 'have' to bring race into this discussion. I 'chose' to do so as a means of making an analogy.

I used that 'for instance' to point out that in the non-cyberspace world and/or in a cyberspace community such as Mudcat, who is or is not a minority depends on who is doing the counting.

Furthermore, who is a member of a minority [in cyberspace or in the real world] also may depend on when the counting is done and the reasons why the counting is being done.

You said you 'think' that Bert is in a very small minority. That may or may not be so.

However, it seems to me that whether Bert is or is not a member of a small minority [on Mudcat] is irrelevant to the point he is making-that a statement should be made in a thread when a post from that thread is deleted or moved.