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[coffeeandink]

That rhetorical trick where, when you want more diverse representation or participation in some field, someone else will object that this just shows your narrowness of mind and lack of empathy, because they know humans are all the same, so the best way to prove open-mindedness and lack of prejudice is to be perfectly happy to take white, straight,

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[badgermirlacca]

Well, it could be metaphor, using the narrower class to represent the whole;
Or synecdoche, use of a part for the whole (or vice versa, but not in this case;
But I think it might be a case of fallacy of composition, where "one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole."

ETA: If you want to drive yourself pleasurably insane, you can check out the Wikipedia article on mereology, which talks about proper parts of a whole. Okay, I find it pleasurable, but then, I'm weird.

[synchcola]

The only thing I can think of is the "He who smelt it dealt it" fallacy - the idea that someone who says something about a problem must have caused it to appear by talking about it.