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I basically think our society massively over-relies on individual shaming as opposed to systemic change.

1) yes, I strongly agree that the solution is systemic change.

But 2) I think we totally misunderstand this language if we see it solely as a "shaming" tactic for changing white ppl's behavior.

I think if the goal is to point out that people benefit from unfair systems, calling them "demons" is guaranteed to be misunderstood.

This deserves a much much longer response, but I basically feel that the term "racist" has been allowed to mean too many different things.

There should be different words for "one who probably benefits from unfair systems" and "one who wants to preserve unfair systems."

But a third word for "one who perpetuates unfair systems, meaning to or not." Which is what it means here.

Sure. The problem (IMO) is that we've tried to use one word to describe all these different things, and it's just counterproductive.