Five days left in my one-week challenge to find someone who can explain systemic racism with a current example.
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When you say "that's an individual act of racism, not a systemic one", according to which criteria do you differentiate the two?
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Then the justice system is an example, because taken as a system, it produces unequal outcomes.
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If the mechanism by which those outcomes are produced is "there are a lot of individual racists within the justice system" then that's still systemic racism because the system did not factor out those individuals.
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How about the legacy of redlining? It’s current in the sense that many living today were personally limited in building wealth by it or their parents were and the pernicious effects continue to reverberate.
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Black Wallstreet.
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If the racists and bigots continuously get replaced by racists and bigots to continue the trend over time, we remove the blame from the individuals and are left either with systemic issue or one of statistical anomaly.
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Scott, one definition could be a process which operates the same way whoever operates it. If individual intent has no effect, it is the system.
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