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I suspect most systemic oppression is a myth. But it's very commonly used as an important concept in America, and I wanna make sure I'm not missing anything - can someone steelman systemic oppression for me - what it means exactly, and if that definition is supported by data?

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Do you mean systemic (i.e. widespread and pervasive) or systematic (i.e. written into the rules)?

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I actually don't know; if people have been using them as two different terms I've been accidentally processing them as the same term

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Systemic oppression would be something like "lots of cops assuming black people are up to no good" Systematic oppression would be "CBP doesn't have to obey the 4th Amendment within 100 miles of the coast"

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So systemic is something that's done habitually by people in positions of power, and systematic is something that's integrated explicitly into the ruleset?

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...and then there’s structural oppression, which is the one I think you mean.