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Bit off topic, but Lunduke is a racism denier. It's hard for me take anything he says seriously when he just completely denies the existence of systemic racism.
by minitoar 5y ago
Bit off topic, but Lunduke is a racism denier. It's hard for me take anything he says seriously when he just completely denies the existence of systemic racism.
- kaladin-jasnah 5y agoYou might be right (I don't really know for sure), but this is an ad hominem fallacy, which is probably why it's getting downvoted.
- minitoar 5y agoI disagree it's an ad hominem fallacy. I'm judging him on his opinions and what he writes. I'm not surprised about the downvotes.
- edgyquant 5y agoI remember him beating to death the horse that was "social justice warriors taking over our open source projects" and I stopped following his youtube around that time (I think it was 2017?) That said it's kind of irrelevant to the topic.
- martin1975 5y agoSystemic - to me at least - means it's a matter of law, thus it affects everyone. I prefer to think of today's instances of racism as an individual/collective (by collective, I don't mean LARGE numbers necessarily) occurrences, rather than systemic. Assuming you aren't looking for perfection - which means no racist thought/word/deed in anyone in the USA - including non-whites who can also be very racist, fyi - then I'd say racism is on the whole pretty rare. On the other hand, I do believe mental slavery is more prevalent than individual/collective racism :).
- minitoar 5y agoThe War on Drugs is a well known example of systemic racism. Many police departments are known to target non-whites as a matter of policy.