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The world has seen actual systemic racism: apartheid in South Africa. Applying that term to 21st Century Western governments is ideological nonsense. Were ther
by slowmovintarget 4y ago
The world has seen actual systemic racism: apartheid in South Africa.
Applying that term to 21st Century Western governments is ideological nonsense. Were there systemic racism, it would equally impact immigrant populations, but it doesn't. Some groups that come from differing cultures have differing rates of success though they share the same racial characteristics.
This is also true for native groups in the U.S. The idea of systemic racism also fails to account for the poor who belong to the supposedly favored racial groups.
- wootland 4y agoSystemic racism most certainly exists in the US. Not only was slavery widespread, there were never any reparations to those enslaved (or Native Americans). There are Black people alive today who existed prior to having their civil rights legally encoded in the 1960s. Our capitalist system is an illusion built on the back of "free" land and labor and those who had their land and labor stripped from them have never been made whole. It's pretty much the definition of systemic racism, just like apartheid in South Africa and Israel.
- cmh89 4y agoYou should look up intersectionality! It would help you understand the very real presence of systemic racism! Systemic racism doesn't mean all white people will be rich or all Black people will be poor. Systemic racism frequently intersects with poverty, educational attainment, networks, and other factors. The type of person who has the resources to emigrate legally to the United States at this point in time is generally going to have higher educational attainment and the income that comes with it than native born people.