"So what exactly do we mean when we say “systemic racism”? Does what I’ve described above meet critics’ definition? If not, why? It’s a rich question worthy of further discussion in these digital pages."
I tend to think in analogies and metaphors, so here we go.
This reminds me of the way that "there's too much plastic in the world" has tu…
"So what exactly do we mean when we say “systemic racism”? Does what I’ve described above meet critics’ definition? If not, why? It’s a rich question worthy of further discussion in these digital pages."
I tend to think in analogies and metaphors, so here we go.
This reminds me of the way that "there's too much plastic in the world" has turned into "individuals bear the individual responsibility to not use plastic straws" instead of "multi-billion dollar corporations must be held to strict standards for plastic manufacture and use."
Not only does this focus put the onus on the least powerful people in the world -- individuals -- to solve a trillion-dollar problem, but it almost guarantees that the least amount of progress will be made because let's face it, one plastic straw means nothing when the actual problem is the zillions of pounds of plastic being created by corporations that managed to greenwash us into all thinking that we can toss our plastic packaging (which often outweighs the items we purchase by a huge amount) into a green garbage bin and think it's going to turn into tomorrow's packaging.
It doesn't, people. It goes into a landfill and stays there.
I know this seems like a topic swerve, but bear with me.
We have been fooled into thinking that individuals not asking for straws and individuals tossing plastic bakery containers into a green garbage can will save the planet or some shit.
We have a SYSTEMIC plastic problem and we're trying to solve it with INDIVIDUAL blame-and-shame instead of handling it at the multi-billion dollar level, where we can make an actual difference No wonder the power structures like this -- it means they don't need to change.
Similarly, this anti-racist crap we're being force-fed also keeps systemic racism (redlining, shit education funding, voter reg, etc.) off the radar while blaming the whole thing on relatively powerless individuals for minor reflexive acts.
Both are instances of trying to fix what is openly called a SYSTEMIC act with INDIVIDUAL blame-and-shame. Yes, people need to individually do better. But if we think that the starvation of schools in poor neighborhoods can be solved by having a bunch of individuals "own our guilt" in stupid seminars, we're kidding ourselves.
And just as conveniently for the White Guilt Manufacturing Industry, it means that the problem never actually gets solved. But a bunch of people with money get to evade scrutiny and feel good about themselves in the bargain AGAIN, while placing all the blame on the most powerless, so hey. There's that.
And you're missing one serious biggie here: "The forced political homogenization of schools and newsrooms isn’t the only story being overlooked, underplayed or disregarded by the legacy media."
There's also the way that women, who have been relegated to second-class humans behind the ones with penises since time began, are now being relegated to second-class WOMEN behind the ones with penises. Incels in dresses have managed to short-circuit feminism in a "woke" way thanks to "gender identity" now being some sort of privileged thing. Feminism now has to put men first just because some dude says he's a woman. Thanks to that and intersectionality, actual violence against women and misogyny is now woke. We're in the back of a bus that WE BUILT AND DRIVE, yet again.
CRT activists eviscerate their powerless "allies" while spineless overlords shut their eyes and cover their A's. And Caitlyn Jenner hid a Trojan horse inside her box of Wheaties. Social justice warriors are sadistic, vindictive and dangerous.
"So what exactly do we mean when we say “systemic racism”? Does what I’ve described above meet critics’ definition? If not, why? It’s a rich question worthy of further discussion in these digital pages."
I tend to think in analogies and metaphors, so here we go.
This reminds me of the way that "there's too much plastic in the world" has turned into "individuals bear the individual responsibility to not use plastic straws" instead of "multi-billion dollar corporations must be held to strict standards for plastic manufacture and use."
Not only does this focus put the onus on the least powerful people in the world -- individuals -- to solve a trillion-dollar problem, but it almost guarantees that the least amount of progress will be made because let's face it, one plastic straw means nothing when the actual problem is the zillions of pounds of plastic being created by corporations that managed to greenwash us into all thinking that we can toss our plastic packaging (which often outweighs the items we purchase by a huge amount) into a green garbage bin and think it's going to turn into tomorrow's packaging.
It doesn't, people. It goes into a landfill and stays there.
I know this seems like a topic swerve, but bear with me.
We have been fooled into thinking that individuals not asking for straws and individuals tossing plastic bakery containers into a green garbage can will save the planet or some shit.
We have a SYSTEMIC plastic problem and we're trying to solve it with INDIVIDUAL blame-and-shame instead of handling it at the multi-billion dollar level, where we can make an actual difference No wonder the power structures like this -- it means they don't need to change.
Similarly, this anti-racist crap we're being force-fed also keeps systemic racism (redlining, shit education funding, voter reg, etc.) off the radar while blaming the whole thing on relatively powerless individuals for minor reflexive acts.
Both are instances of trying to fix what is openly called a SYSTEMIC act with INDIVIDUAL blame-and-shame. Yes, people need to individually do better. But if we think that the starvation of schools in poor neighborhoods can be solved by having a bunch of individuals "own our guilt" in stupid seminars, we're kidding ourselves.
And just as conveniently for the White Guilt Manufacturing Industry, it means that the problem never actually gets solved. But a bunch of people with money get to evade scrutiny and feel good about themselves in the bargain AGAIN, while placing all the blame on the most powerless, so hey. There's that.
And you're missing one serious biggie here: "The forced political homogenization of schools and newsrooms isn’t the only story being overlooked, underplayed or disregarded by the legacy media."
There's also the way that women, who have been relegated to second-class humans behind the ones with penises since time began, are now being relegated to second-class WOMEN behind the ones with penises. Incels in dresses have managed to short-circuit feminism in a "woke" way thanks to "gender identity" now being some sort of privileged thing. Feminism now has to put men first just because some dude says he's a woman. Thanks to that and intersectionality, actual violence against women and misogyny is now woke. We're in the back of a bus that WE BUILT AND DRIVE, yet again.
The plastic analogy is brilliant. I'm gonna borrow it. A lot.
CRT activists eviscerate their powerless "allies" while spineless overlords shut their eyes and cover their A's. And Caitlyn Jenner hid a Trojan horse inside her box of Wheaties. Social justice warriors are sadistic, vindictive and dangerous.