Employers being biased against certain names isn't a 'systemic' problem. It's an HR problem in certain industries.
When activists claim problem X is 'systemic' (deep, pervasive, invisible), they are really saying: 1) no specific empirical evidence can challenge our claims about X; 2) the only solutions to X must be equally 'systemic' - i.e. totalitarian interference in everything X-related
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Beware of those who exaggerate, invent, or otherwise hijack the extent of racism and prejudice to justify by fiat their own murky sociopolitical ends. Especially when they start claiming that racism is "systemic", "structural", or "institutional", which it is certainly not.
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I'm not quite that grim, but this is right to first-order approximation far more often than not.
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When anyone posits the existence of a deeply pervasive yet invisible problem, I reach for my Wittgenstein.
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Yes and no. For instance, in the US, unofficial institutional or systemic discrimination continued after official discrimination had ended by the early 1970s. However, the fading away of systemic discrimination has caused a perverse desire by activists to prove its salience.
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What is to become of Civil Rights activists if the Movement has been successful? Well, we now have 'micro-aggressions' and 'fragility' and disinformation (gender) and attribution of causality to correlation.
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I've been watching Part 2 of the Mike Nayna documentary, and man is it annoying how weak the evidence behind their assertions are once you start examining them.
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Something that stuck out was DiAngelo saying, more or less, that white people being nice was supposed to be contributing to the problem of racism. That's almost as obnoxious as the claim made in her paper that wanting to be judged as an individual was evidence of narcissism.
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