Black Lives Mater, a Marxist Organization

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  1. Diacanu

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    If it's the left who are obsessed, why are the Republicans the ones so scared of the black vote?
    Why not just try to win their votes over?
    Unless they're really committed to racism?
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    I'm not sure that's a difference. The "system" is made up of individuals. Racism does not have to be explicitly codified into the "system" for the "system" to be marked by racism, which is what "systemic racism" means.

    Thus, if individual prejudice is prevalent enough, it seems to me that that is "systemic racism".
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    One need only look at the difference in sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine versus powder cocaine to see an example of this. People busted for crack cocaine were primarily African-American, while people busted for powder cocaine were primarily white. Who got the harsher punishments? People with crack cocaine.
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    I think that's kinda my point: individual prejudice is not actually prevalent enough (in most places) to be indistinguishable. It is largely codified and subsequently unexamined. The Night Funky gives an example of this.
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    :huh:

    I'm not sure I understand. It sure looks to me like The Night Funky was giving an example of how individual prejudice is prevalent, and thus that "prevalent individual prejudice" is the same thing as "systemic racism", and thus not "a fourth option" at all.
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    I don’t see how that’s an example of individual prejudice at all.

    Edit: oh. I understand the confusion now. I mean individual prejudice as in “prejudice held by individual people” not “single examples of codified prejudice”.
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