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As a Black person, I don't much see a large difference between the two things you mentioned? Which is to say, it's certainly convenient to think that racism wo
by jrm4 2y ago
As a Black person, I don't much see a large difference between the two things you mentioned?
Which is to say, it's certainly convenient to think that racism works like "there are racist cops on one hand and innocent well-meaning cops on the other," but that strikes me as an unhelpful oversimplification.
More specifically, I generally believe that most negative effects of racism come from folks who don't much realize how racist they are.
- kube-system 2y agoYeah I’d agree that definitely sounds like an oversimplification. I’m more wondering if there is a sort of social bias that isn’t directly race related. More of a socioeconomic or cultural thing. I could certainly imagine a cop treating someone in a pickup truck wearing a cowboy hat differently than the same person in a Nissan Altima with chrome wheels playing rap music. Or treating people differently based on how they speak during a traffic stop. Ultimately I understand there are deep links between culture, socioeconomics, and race, but I’d be interested to know more specifically which of those is more closely linked to this bias.