Four days left in my one-week challenge to find someone who can explain systemic racism with a current example.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
In my understanding, systemic racism refers to ingrained, long-term disadvantages that are cumulative, pervasive, and insidious. In other words, almost every example of what one might call regular racism would be explained to be the end result of systemic racism.
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Replying to @travcom13
Word salad is the best definition I have heard so far.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
historical disadvantage that finds America in its current predicament, with half the population protesting a condition which the other half does not even believe exists.
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Replying to @travcom13 @ScottAdamsSays
Haha hang on taking a crack at it. Slavery is the first example of systemic racism. Systemic racism is used to describe the artifacts of the initial disadvantage and its generational persistency, though the outcomes have progressively improved
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Replying to @travcom13 @ScottAdamsSays
By this definition, all of the video examples in recent history of black men being killed as a result of police or citizen intervention would be deemed the result of systemic racism. George Zimmerman does not kill Travon Martin because he is consciously aware of a racial bias
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Replying to @travcom13 @ScottAdamsSays
to follow black people he suspects to have committed a crime. His actions and the fact that certain percentages of white people are more likely to follow a black person and to suspect them of a crime, and their likelihood to successfully avoid prosecution, would be deemed to be
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Zimmerman is one guy. Not a system.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
A system is, by definition, made up of parts.
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Replying to @travcom13 @ScottAdamsSays
Necessarily, the socioeconomic status of affected groups is itself tied to the theory of systemic racism
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