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I believe your mistake is using the term racism when you mean to say classism or elitist.

komali2 7y ago
Systematic racism doesn't require a person somewhere saying "I hate black people" - it merely requires that the system be unfair towards people, correlated with their skin color. Systematic racism could affect someone because the history of oppression against their race has resulted in them being born to a family that constantly gets evicted from homes due to poverty, which exacerbates the poverty for them and their eventual offspring, which means that the history of oppression against their race continues indefinitely.
- 127 7y ago
  Correlation vs. causation. Just because an inequality exists, doesn't mean it's caused by systemic oppression.
  - komali2 7y ago
    Black people in America experience more poverty than white people because of systematic racism. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2018/02/21/447051/systematic-inequality/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2018/02... https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ld6aYUf02jgJ:https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Racism/IWG/Session13/StatementJotakaEaddy.docx https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ld6aYU... Even Ben and Jerry's knows this to be true: https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2016/systemic-racism-is-real https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2016/systemic-racism... Would you like to present your alternative theory for why black people in America experience more poverty than white people?
    - dsfyu404ed 7y ago
      I think the bigger question is why does Ben and Jerry's have a page discussing systemic racism on their website. Isn't that a few astronomical units outside the scope of their business?
      - aaaaaar 7y ago
        They are very active in progressive causes. Perhaps when they sold the company to Unilever they negotiated some deal that allows them to continue to use Ben and Jerry website for their activism?

Systematic racism doesn't require a person somewhere saying "I hate black people" - it merely requires that the system be unfair towards people, correlated with their skin color. Systematic racism could affect someone because the history of oppression against their race has resulted in them being born to a family that constantly gets evicted from homes due to poverty, which exacerbates the poverty for them and their eventual offspring, which means that the history of oppression against their race continues indefinitely.

127 7y ago
Correlation vs. causation. Just because an inequality exists, doesn't mean it's caused by systemic oppression.
- komali2 7y ago
  Black people in America experience more poverty than white people because of systematic racism. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2018/02/21/447051/systematic-inequality/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2018/02... https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ld6aYUf02jgJ:https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Racism/IWG/Session13/StatementJotakaEaddy.docx https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ld6aYU... Even Ben and Jerry's knows this to be true: https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2016/systemic-racism-is-real https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2016/systemic-racism... Would you like to present your alternative theory for why black people in America experience more poverty than white people?
  - dsfyu404ed 7y ago
    I think the bigger question is why does Ben and Jerry's have a page discussing systemic racism on their website. Isn't that a few astronomical units outside the scope of their business?
    - aaaaaar 7y ago
      They are very active in progressive causes. Perhaps when they sold the company to Unilever they negotiated some deal that allows them to continue to use Ben and Jerry website for their activism?