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    1. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 18 Jun 2020

      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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    2. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 18 Jun 2020

      People are very, very confident they know exactly what systemic racism means, and they can give examples right off the top of their heads. But people seem to have completely different ideas of the definition. What's that tell you?

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    3. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 18 Jun 2020

      I got lots of examples of systemic racism that would apply to all poor people. For example, if you live in a poor zip code, your school is probably underfunded, and that is hard to overcome. Is that systemic racism if it also applies to poor white kids?

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    4. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 18 Jun 2020

      I got lots of outcome-based answers. Some say it doesn't matter WHY the outcomes are different. It only matters that they are. That alone is proof of systemic racism. Is it?

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    5. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 18 Jun 2020

      Some say that non-racist systems (such as the legal system) produce systemic racism when populated by people who are biased but might not realize it. I'd call that regular racism within the context of a system. Is that systemic racism?

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    6. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 18 Jun 2020

      Before I blocked him for bad mind-reading in public, Tim Poole described systemic racism as, for example, getting behind in a small way (say a speeding ticket you can't afford to pay) that snowballs into larger problems. But wouldn't that apply to anyone poor?

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    7. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 18 Jun 2020

      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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      Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 18 Jun 2020

      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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        1. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 18 Jun 2020

          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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        1. Annyka‏ @AnnykaV 18 Jun 2020
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          As you said with the young black men, it's but one of many variables. Racism, perceived, systemic, overt, is but one variable in complicated calculus of interactions btwn govts, institutions, and people.

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        2. Smarmageddon‏ @greentrashmashe 18 Jun 2020
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          Bottom of the well? What defines that? Geopolitical atmosphere? Geographical location? IQ? Family situation? Health?

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        3. MeanderingWonk‏ @MeanderingWonk 19 Jun 2020
          Replying to @greentrashmashe @ScottAdamsSays

          I liken it to walking on a narrow, muddy levee during a rainstorm at night, gingerly and single file. What are the odds that one might slip off that ridge, how muddy are the slopes that they may never climb back again, and why aren't we widening that levee, in case a dam breaks ?

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        2. OCpatriot123‏ @OCpatriot123 18 Jun 2020

          Capitalists push for equal opportunities. Socialists push for equal outcomes. I believe that in this country no matter where you start, you have the same opportunities to succeed as everyone else. Notice I didn't say equal probability.

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        2. Lyle Webster‏ @LyleWebsterArt1 18 Jun 2020
          Replying to @ScottAdamsSays

          Vast majority of black people in US until mid 1900s were in poverty & low class as emancipated people had freedom but no wealth to pass down generations. Even if racism ended today without wealth redistribution disparity would still perpetuate for generations as you acknowledge

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        3. Lyle Webster‏ @LyleWebsterArt1 18 Jun 2020
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          ...it's extremely difficult to get out of poverty and once out wealth building begins. With compounding it a foot up to begin becomes a distance that cant be made up. All that said, if systemic racism doesnt exist; the past creates leads to an environment where it would seem to

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        1. Cris Wildermuth‏ @DrWildermuth 18 Jun 2020
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          Absolutely, social mobility is very hard. Systemic poverty also exists. What we are saying is that when race and poverty are present succeeding is that much harder. We are not saying is *the only* thing that makes social mobility hard but we can probably agree it's a major factor

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