What are the names of the institutions? Aren't there institutions that are socially dominated by blacks in the U.S.?Systemic racism is a form of racism that is expressed through the practices of institutions in their interactions with socially dominated racial groups, and that serves to reinforce the dominated status of those groups. Systemic racism may be enshrined in law (e.g. apartheid systems) or it may be a matter of practices/policies involving legal interpretation and/or extralegal actions discriminatively applied by those with discretionary power, direct or indirect, at any level of the system. Examples of systems where systemic racism may apply include justice, education, and health in both their private and state-managed manifestations. — Baden
You're the one making the claim that racism is systematic*. Now define systematic, and point out the system* and members of the system that are racist. — Harry Hindu
:meh:Okay, Harry. Prove you're not a cunt — 180 Proof
But this is 2019. What are the racist institutions in 2019? Are you saying the FHA is still racist today? Did it take this long for you to point out the racist institution?I can point you to a history book - THE COLOR OF LAW (2017) - that will show that we do not have, and have not had equality of opportunity. We need not go back as far as the 18th and 19th centuries and slavery. Let's go back to the 1930s. — Bitter Crank
Right, so we don't have laws and institutions where the way society allocates resources and protects one race and exposes the other to social disintegration today. It's more about that the effects of the racism in previous systems that have carried over generationally. Given that, what are the proposed solutions? More vague generalities?They're saying there are situations where the way a society allocates resources protects one race and exposes the other to social disintegration, educational and nutritional deficits, and gang violence.
"Systemic racism" isnt the best terminology for it because much of it, as Bittercrank pointed out, is the legacy of historic racism, and corruption that may or may not be related to racism.
It's more poetically speaking that racism is embodied by economic, political, and judicial systems. — frank
If you search for disparities between tall and short, fat and thin, you’ll find them. The point is you’re not tackling a problem at all, but projecting groups and taxonomies onto vast swaths of disparate individuals. — NOS4A2
If noticing color in the past lead to racist systems and institutions... — Harry Hindu
According to the OP, it's to be colourblind, meaning (according to the OP) not being racist. I suppose the OP has a point, whatever suspicion of alt-right sophism is aroused. Since the abolition of slavery, systemic racism has continued to blight black lives. The OP apparently admits that, and prescribes systemic colourblindness. Hmm.What's the solution to race problems in America? — frank
The funny thing about that: the people who advocate the anti-Rand attitude can be relied upon to turn on their fellow humans who happen to be conservative like a bunch of rabid dogs. They'll turn on each other in a heart beat. The Europeans ones will foam and bark about their fellow humans who happen to be American. IOW, it's all talk, or rather it's all endless fucking whining with no interest at all in follow through. — frank
The OP apparently admits that, and prescribes systemic colourblindness — Chris Hughes
I suggest we’ll never know the causal mechanisms until each case is taken into account, and we abandon demographic, ethnic or race thinking from our analysis. — NOS4A2
No, I meant that the Count prescribes no race-based social engineering at all because, supposedly, it's based on a false distinction. (Hence, supposedly, the unwanted side effects.) There's a slippery circularity there. Hence my suspicion of alt-right sophistry.It's true that social engineering meant to reverse the effects of racism has unwanted side effects. Is that what you mean? — frank
There's a slippery circularity there. Hence my suspicion of alt-right sophistry. — Chris Hughes
Political action on racial grounds is wholly dangerous. — NOS4A2
A vampire?He's definitely a troll. Hes not in the US, so maybe not alt-right, but one of its kin. — frank
Trolls don't oppose opinion, they distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory messages with the intent of normalizing tangential discussion.If you guys can be trolled by opposing opinions perhaps I’m not the problem. — Nosferatu
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