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Originally Posted by amexsbow
Systemic racism is a false construct. BLM leaders have said their focus is Marxist ideology. I have worked in both the government and private industry. I know for a fact that in order to meet quotas for minority inclusion that criteria for a job posting was changed or ignored. When in a civil service posting there were no minorities on a list the list was discarded.
Systemic racism is being used to subvert legitimate discussion of problems brought about by progressive policies.
Individual actions are anecdotal and not proof of systemic problems.
WAKE UP AND THINK FOR YOURSELF.  |
Good post. May I also point out to readers who care about being accurate that there is a big difference between “systemic” and “systematic”. (You used it correctly, of course, but someone who started a similar post yesterday did not, and autocorrect will often make the change without our realizing it.)
“Systemic” means it’s inherent in the system, whether we know it or not or agree with it or not. That’s the primary contention of the protestors, whether or not they use the word correctly. “Systematic” means following a system, like always using a tee before teeing off your golf ball, or always flushing the toilet after using it (or always wiping, using your pre-virus stash of four hundred rolls). First step one, then step two. Then step three. Systematic racism might be, say, a car insurance company that always doubles rates for African-American drivers as a matter of course. It might not be written down, but agents are privately told to do it. Or if I, as an English professor, made it a practice to never give African-American students grades above a C. Automatic C or lower. (I definitely DID NOT do that—it’s just an example.)
And that is your vocabulary lesson of the day.