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There's something about what's going on in the world that triggers something more visceral in me. I feel more afraid, angry, tribal. I am absolutely terrified of how I see everyone responding. It's not really what they say as much as the frames they use to say it.

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As in I agree that black lives matter, that the police are freaking terrifying, that racism is bad, etc. But the bad frame uses religious style concepts - the total depravity of "you're in a racist system", the lurking Satan of "if you don't totally buy in you're racist"

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Not really no?

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I mean it depends on definitions obvs. But when I think systemic I think about racism at the current system level, which I think barely exists, if at all? I guess there's stuff like it's harder for Asians to get into Harvard because of actual Harvard policies.

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Yeah I definitely agree current poverty probably exists mostly due to systemic racism of the past. I also do think that some levels of sentencing are actually currently racist on the systemic level!

4:21 PM · Jun 5, 2020

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It just seems unlikely to me that hundreds of years of extreme systemic racism just...ended, suddenly, with the civil rights movement. And that there are almost zero vestiges of it remaining. People who were in there 20s and 30s before the movement are STILL in power today.