If you think of yourself as so uniquely individual that your actions are wholly unrelated to the actions of others, and your actions only have consequences if those consequences affect you personally, then how can you ever believe you're part of a prejudicial system?
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Take the phenomenon of White People Calling The Cops On Black People For Basic Shit, for instance. You'd think such stories would unequivocally point out a pattern for others to avoid, but they keep happening because each new individual assumes that THEIR case is DIFFERENT.
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Beyond failing to recognise their impulse to act as racist in the first place, they sure as hell don't recognise that acting that way contributes to a *pattern* of racist behaviour - how can they, when they firmly believe they're acting as individuals with no systematic bias?
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I've encountered this phenomenon over and over again in online conversations: you point out a pattern of actions, and people try to "counter" the existence of that pattern by saying, in essence, "Well, look - here's other stuff that happens that ISN'T part of that pattern! HAH!"
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And it's like, dude. Do you not understand how patterns WORK? Maybe it's just that I'm married to a set theorist, but goddamn, this is some kindergarden shit. The fact that those individuals whose actions make the pattern didn't coordinate it all DOESN'T STOP IT BEING A PATTERN.
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