Today Is the end of my one-week challenge to provide examples of systemic racism. Here's a thread on what I learned.
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I'm convinced that authority figures (teachers, cops, judges) do treat young African-American males differently on average. But how much science do we have about WHY? Seems to me that racism would be one of about fifteen variables to check.
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In summary, I think everyone agrees that racism exists everywhere that people exist, which means every organization and system. And I think we all agree that anyone starting life at the bottom of the well, for any reason, will have trouble climbing out.
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Persuasion-wise, "systemic racism" as a rallying cry probably makes things worse because it introduces a new thing to disagree about. But if tweaking our systems to add more checks against racism works, I'm all for it.
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You and Tim are my favorite voices on social media. I believe he acts in good faith. I hope you consider unblocking him my wise friend!
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Agreed. Tim is actively asking questions and slowly working out his true political beliefs.
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In our legal system, there is correlation with race, but the actual causation is economic/poverty/income. Poor white people have police problems all the same.
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That wasn't his example of systemic racism. It was, simplified: 1. Racists use laws to create a system 2. Racist laws are repealed but the system remains 3. Remaining system is "Systemic Racism" Example: Racists legislated ghettos, racists were removed, ghettos remain & suck.
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Someone tell me what bad mind-reading in public is, please. I was googling it, but apparently I missed a video and haven't read the book where this is covered.
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So here it goes: http://youtu.be/5vOrAaO4rcY?t=82 … Unfortunately Scott does not behave according to that rule and does not seem to apply the rules to people he is mind reading himself and that's a shame, exactly for the reasons he mentioned. Tim Pool is a great guy - Scott should warn...
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