Word salad is the best definition I have heard so far.
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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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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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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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The actions of the offending police or civilians are not the result of an acute period of focused, conscious racial discrimination, but are the result of a subconscious, subliminal racism, which has been allowed to fester and infect almost every area of the total system over time
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creating a disease that is still pervasive and debilitating, though less obvious, particularly to those who have never been affected by the illness. This is, as I understand it, what is meant by systemic racism.
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The image of a white officer kneeling on a man’s neck, with no (apparent) regard for any repercussions, is an example of systemic racism (the systems that both lead to black men being inappropriately handled by police with no regard for their personal safety, as well as
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You fell for the mind-reader narrative. We don't know what "regard" anyone had. Listen to this for a correction to your misconceptions about what is obvious here:https://samharris.org/podcasts/207-can-pull-back-brink/ …
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