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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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Haha there's that great buzzword that just answers everything: Systemic. Yes.
Black youth are taught that they can't bare personal responsibility for their lot in life. This is an insanely destructive idea to put into the mind of an impressionable young person. It's also extremely insulting and patronizing to the multitude of black people who have come from extreme poverty and have become extremely successful.
Young black males are taught by their peers that doing good in school is a "white" thing. This type of insane ideology which people are calling critical race theory is now infiltrating nearly every conceivable institution. To not recognize the threat this poses to the future prosperity of POC's is suicidally ignorant.
People just like to shit out the term "systemic" or "institutional" in place of an actual argument. You said the magic buzzword so beep boop turn brain off.
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I mean, maybe the people you hang out with. But most people ... the kind that can use the English language properly ... use "systemic" to mean "it's built-into the system". And yes: racism
is built-in to our American system, if you live in reality and not in fantasy-land. Here's how you can tell the difference between the two: evidence.
I can show you
evidence that cops (as a group) treat minorities differently. I can show you
evidence that schools treat minorities differently. I can show you
evidence that financial institutions treat minorities differently. In other words, there is a whole lot of
evidence that minorities have
systemic problems in our society.
... whereas anyone who wants to live in fantasy land, and pretend that everyone in America is treated equally ... has no
evidence to back that position up.