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so you agree that attributing an outcome to systemic racism is unfalsifiable?

• nerdponx 6y ago
  I see what you're saying. Mind you, I'm not a sociologist, so anything I say here is going to be a suboptimal paraphrasing. Systemic racism is not a cause of something, but a description of a state of existence. Systemic racism is itself the existence of inequitable outcomes in the context of a society that was literally founded on overt racism. That something "is" systemic racism is falsifiable by demonstrating that one or both of those criteria is not met. So this particular outcome will always be definitionally systemic racism until the outcome is no longer inequitable, or the USA has moved meaningfully past its white supremacist origins to the point where individual cases of accidental bias are truly individual cases and not part of a pattern. Personally, I am okay with that. Ceteris non paribus sunt.