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As someone from a "very white" country wealth disparity seems to exist regardless of race.

• f6v 6y ago
  Yes, so here's a crazy idea: maybe, just maybe, there're systematic problems in the society, other than monuments and words.
  • bsaul 6y ago
    here's an even crazier idea : maybe inequality is part of natural behavior of every single organisation, from animals to vegetables, to cells. I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that abolishing inequalities is a phenomenaly ambitious goal which hasn't even been proved feasible.
    • f6v 6y ago
      We can practice reductio ad absurdum all we want. However, it seems that inequality is taken to the extreme in some parts of the world.
• qznc 6y ago
  The distinction is just wording: > If we find that much of the overrepresentation of blacks in the criminal justice system is because black people are often poor and poor people often get sucked into the system, should we describe this as “the problem isn’t racism in the criminal justice system, it’s poverty” or as “the problem is racism in the criminal justice system, as manifested through poverty”? – Scott Alexander https://web.archive.org/web/20200523051001/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/03/framing-for-light-instead-of-heat/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200523051001/https://slatestar...
  • saabaa 6y ago
    No, he's just playing word games. That doesn't mean the argument is one of semantics. If the problem is too much poverty, then the solution is to reduce poverty. If the problem is too much racism, then the solution is to reduce racism. The greedy rich people's corporate media pushes the racism narrative to keep the focus away from the primary problem because fixing poverty might cost them something. All the well meaning people pushing the racism narrative are doing their work. Pawns in the game.