cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1111823
A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1111823
A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.
It being a racist country doesn’t mean each person is racist. The country took part in decades of genocide, slavery, segregation, coups in countless countries, placed countless dictators in power, and inspired the Nazis (yes literally).
I no longer see systemic racism like there was at one time. Do you know if any government policies that are racist in nature? I don’t.
There’s a name for that buddy. Ignorance.
Show me one law that is racist? I bet you can’t. At one time it was common. Ie. Where you could sit on a bus.
If anything we now have laws that are the opposite and support minorities.
man, I guess the annual (at least) police killings of unarmed black people (including at least 2-3 children) just didn’t happen?
Do you know what the definition of systemic racism means? I think few people here do. It means there are laws and policies that are racist.
You will always have racist cops and neighbors and teachers. That is not systemic. That is just shitty people. Once you identify them and can prove it, then you can take action. Some always slip thru.
this is a weird take; aren’t police literally the arbiters of said systemically racist policies and laws?
like isn’t that their colloquial job definition?
Systemic or institutional racism is defined as having official policy in place to encourage racism. That was certainly the case in the 60s. Systemic being the key word I don’t think people understand.
We have the opposite of that now in that we have all kinds of laws to l that can be used against those that are proven to be racist within their job. Key world is that it has to be proven and often that is not obvious to after an incident.
But if you think we have a problem with systemic racism, tell me one policy or law that is encourages racism.
you’re really not going to accept that systematic racism (gentrification, the War on Drugs, racial profiling, job discrimination, etc.) exists unless there’s like literally a law that says “you should be racist” in big colorful letters, are you?
I’m honestly in disbelief that people like you, who think that racism was completely solved in the 60s when King did the famous speech, still exist
If the system does not prevent, stop, or punish the racist constituent actors (cops, neighbors, teachers), is it not racist? Is it not systemic racism to not stop individual acts of racism, especially when they’re performed by agents of the state (e.g., cops, lawmakers, judges, teachers)? Just because it’s not a top-down demand by the state of “you, agent of the state, must act racist” does not mean it’s not systemic racism.
There is no such thing as a system as such. It’s just people. If the members are racist, and their collective doesn’t do anything to address (or even occasionally rewards) that behavior, the system is racist.
The entire war on drugs is a racist endeavour that has created racist drug laws.