SpokenTruth said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Your source about marijuana claims that more black people being arrested for marijuana posession and no black owned firms being selected to grow medical marijuana are systemic racism.
And you're saying it's literally impossible for a black cop to be more likely to arrest a white person or for somebody to choose to only deal with black owned businesses?
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As The-Pie-Guy said, that's not systemic. That's just standard ol' racism, bigotry and discrimination. Systemic racism are the policies, practices, institutions, political and economic structures that are by design beneficial to one race over another.
Bigotry can be experienced by everyone. Systemic racism can only be experienced by those the system is designed to disparage and disadvantage.
Aeolus451 said:
He can't experience it because of his race, right?
Because he can't experience it, what does that mean to his opinion and yours? Does it disprove his opinion? Does it mean it has less weight?
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Correct, he cannot experience systemic racism because of his race. he can experience individual racism, bigotry, discrimination, hatred, etc...but not systemic racism.
And yes, it has less weight because he himself dismissed the existence of something that he is unaffected by. Someone without a peanut allergy claiming that peanut allergies don't exist has less weight than someone that actually has one.
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Again, you're using his race to win an argument.
He can look at data and come to the conclusion that it exists or not. He doesn't need to experience it, to figure it out either way. Anecdotal evidence is not conclusive. In science, it means nothing. In courts, it carries little weight when the person's character is questionable. Is that person believable? Do they have a stake in this? Do they have a reason to lie?