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Racism IS everywhere, and most of it happens subconsciously. No one wants to look in the mirror and admit that an action they took was racist, and the prevalenc

by mym1990 3y ago

Racism IS everywhere, and most of it happens subconsciously. No one wants to look in the mirror and admit that an action they took was racist, and the prevalence of false positives are probably very much outweighed by false negatives.

atleastoptimal 3y ago
It's still worse in my opinion to accuse an innocent person falsely of racism than to fail to catch a non-violent act of racism, especially when the definition of what is "racist" seems to change depending on the person you ask.
- mym1990 3y ago
  Non-violent racism is most of racism. That includes things like POC getting access to the same opportunities in the job market, in the credit market, in basically every aspect of life. From what I have seen, it is much less likely that someone will call racism out when it happens, much like women do not generally come forward after abuse. If you can't see the problem in your statement, you are part of it.
  - atleastoptimal 3y ago
    What you are talking about are instances of systemic racism due to differences in power (i.e. someone holds power over someone else and wields discretion in favor of their racial biases). This is different than the type of racism described in OP. In that case, Amazon held much more power over this person's life than that person held over his Amazon delivery driver, and even though the entire interaction was in the view of recording devices, Amazon still decided to assume the worst. I wouldn't even say it's as much a problem of racism as it is large corporations making snap judgements without a care for the consequences. Even so, the a fundamental axiom of the American justice system is that it is worse to imprison an innocent man than let a guilty man go free.
mike741 3y ago
> No one wants to look in the mirror and admit that Then that includes the employees and executives at Amazon and is all the more reason to not allow them to punish others for behavior that is (according to you) universal.
- mym1990 3y ago
  The solution is not punishing others, it is about education. I never said anything about it being right that Amazon cut the ability of someone to use the products already bought.
40yearoldman 3y ago
Okay Robin DiAngelo.
- mym1990 3y ago
  No idea who that is.

atleastoptimal 3y ago

It's still worse in my opinion to accuse an innocent person falsely of racism than to fail to catch a non-violent act of racism, especially when the definition of what is "racist" seems to change depending on the person you ask.

mym1990 3y ago
Non-violent racism is most of racism. That includes things like POC getting access to the same opportunities in the job market, in the credit market, in basically every aspect of life. From what I have seen, it is much less likely that someone will call racism out when it happens, much like women do not generally come forward after abuse. If you can't see the problem in your statement, you are part of it.
- atleastoptimal 3y ago
  What you are talking about are instances of systemic racism due to differences in power (i.e. someone holds power over someone else and wields discretion in favor of their racial biases). This is different than the type of racism described in OP. In that case, Amazon held much more power over this person's life than that person held over his Amazon delivery driver, and even though the entire interaction was in the view of recording devices, Amazon still decided to assume the worst. I wouldn't even say it's as much a problem of racism as it is large corporations making snap judgements without a care for the consequences. Even so, the a fundamental axiom of the American justice system is that it is worse to imprison an innocent man than let a guilty man go free.

mike741 3y ago

> No one wants to look in the mirror and admit that Then that includes the employees and executives at Amazon and is all the more reason to not allow them to punish others for behavior that is (according to you) universal.

mym1990 3y ago
The solution is not punishing others, it is about education. I never said anything about it being right that Amazon cut the ability of someone to use the products already bought.

40yearoldman 3y ago

Okay Robin DiAngelo.

mym1990 3y ago
No idea who that is.