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Originally Posted by VillageLiberal
The Black Lives Matter protests are for Civil Rights. Civil rights, guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics. It's clear that black people and people of color are unfairly discriminated against, targeted, incarcerated, and/or killed. If you believe that people of color are inferior to white people, less educated, poor workers, more inclined to violence, need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, are sucking on the governments welfare tit, are drug dealers and pimps, then you are part of the problem perpetuating the oppression of equal rights of black people and people of color.
Black people and people of color are human beings who unfortunately get targeted by law enforcement more often than white folks because of systemic racism.
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I have seen and heard the word "systemic" quite a bit lately. It is being used improperly in my opinion.
White (and males of color) males are being targeted by law enforcement more often than females, therefore according to the above analogy, there is systemic sexism against males. Female population is a little over half the country, therefore if we do not have half the prison population females then there is a problem with systemic sexism. Or whatever fancy word you wish to call it.