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Looking for personally-seen day-to-day anecdotes, though often well-intentioned, is where a lot of this discussion ends up going wrong, imo, and it leads to peo
by glhaynes 9y ago
Looking for personally-seen day-to-day anecdotes, though often well-intentioned, is where a lot of this discussion ends up going wrong, imo, and it leads to people coming away with the idea that racism in the USA is a mostly "past" problem. Blatant, open racism is pretty taboo in most areas of society, and, even in private situations, it's rare in my experience (though by no means non-existent) to hear openly racist statements, "the n-word", etc.
The more enlightening thing to look at is pervasive systemic/institutional racism. I'd recommend doing some googling on those terms if you'd like to learn more.
- g09980 9y ago> doesn't exactly take a lot of trying to find racism/oppression in most situations > is pretty taboo in most areas of society, and, even in private situations, it's rare in my experience English is not my native language so I may be misreading the subtext, but it seemed contradictory
- glhaynes 9y agoMy point is that racism is far more than discrete instances of people yelling racial slurs. The racism that affects black people in the USA is perhaps mostly not that sort of racism (though if I were black, I'd surely have many more of those types of anecdotes to point to than the several I have), but more subtle racism is pervasive and has a huge, constant effect.