Literally that is what systemic means, “over a sweeping average.” And yes, what affects the sweeping average does affect the individual. This does not mean there are no downtrodden white folks. It has never meant that.
Thanks I get your points. Now surely there is systematic-racism AND racism? Absolving individual discrimination-by-race from the label "racism" is harmful. Like if I refuse change to white homeless guys, just cuz they're white, that's not racist? Call a spade is a spade!
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Yeah that's not racism. It's just mean. Maybe it's racial prejudice? I feel like maybe you haven't been reading the thread at all?
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The homeless experience discrimination too. Is this a good time to introduce the concept of intersectionality?
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Let's call it a day, Allison.
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@allisons would you be so kind as to introduce me to intersectionality? Turns out it is important to me. -
I'm going to naively assume you're being sincere. Because hope! The first thing you need to get is the concept of social stratification. Society is not an undifferentiated blob - people are different and they're organized in to stratum or hierarchical layers.
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The features, characteristics, and interests are unequally valued. Society as a whole is designed by and for the dominant group.
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But obviously there's more than one way to slice up people into these groups - the most obvious one's being gender, race, and economic class.
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And you may be in the privileged class for one group and the underprivileged class for another. I'm an upper middle class white woman. I have lots and lots of white and class privilege but I suffer (some) disadvantages because I'm female.
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