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zero129 said:

the-pi-guy said:

When we talk about "racism", there are two different kinds.

There's prejudice based on skin color, which is probably what most people think about when talking about racism. 

Then there's systemic racism, which is the more academic definition of racism, and it's the one that more left wingers are talking about, when they talk about racism. Systemic racism is prejudice with power. The vast majority of rich people are white, the vast majority of presidents and politicians in the US are white.

The big reason why racism is a big issue isn't so much because of the prejudice, but because there's a power dynamic. And yeah I get it, it's hard to talk about something abstract like racial power differences. But we can see that in statistics. 

We can see that black people are more likely to get arrested for drug use, even if their drug use isn't any different from white people. We can see that white people are again, more likely to be in positions of power (politicians, billionaires, millionaires). We can see that black people are more likely to be falsely in jail, they're less likely to get out early. Etc. Etc.

Im not sure how it is in the US but here in Ireland im pretty sure we dont really have that problem. In fact the irish was on the thick end of racism for years and being from the traveling community even more so. But when i see Celebs saying how all white = evil i just find that very annoying as its painting everyone with the same brush and i believe the is better ways to deal with racism then that.

I do not know to much about Ireland but I am believing that you do not have the same history as the US when it comes to different races.  From Slavery, to immigrants, to Native Americans.  There are so much difference I believe in how the US has matured over the years and in some respect not.  Trying to apply what has happen within Ireland compared to the US probably really would not work as the history of the 2 countries are totally different.