Systemic rulecism explained well

Unfortunately it's not the people here that need to read this

In this community? It's useful for talking points
Lemmy in general? There's a lot of people on Lemmy who need to read this.
- Yeah, wow. Post got me using the bookmark function.
It might help someone explain it later though, it's a good parallel
You’d be surprised how widespread misunderstanding of systemic racism is, even on the left.

Naturally the account has been suspended lol.

If you think that the problems (inequalities) racism brought ceased to exist with segregation, try learning about red-lining and how countless black neighborhoods got unfairly bulldozed to make space for highways. All that stuff happened only a lifetime ago, of course its effects can still be felt today.

Wells Fargo to pay $175 million in race discrimination probe - Reuters (2012) And let's not forget stuff like this happened just within the last 15 years.
colonialism is also still enforced today - IMF loans that force austerity policies on receiving nations, coups that topple popular governments and replace them with dictatorships that are friendly to western interests, the fomenting of civil wars and conflicts that frequently genocide entire populations, the sale of arms and training to far-right militias. neocolonialism doesn't involve direct rule but it's merely the form that's changed, not the character or the consequences.

... did you just straight-up post a reddit comment?

Aaand? People have always sent screenshots of posts from other social media on social media. Nothing new.
Yes, lol.
But in my defense, I’ve had this saved on my phone for over a year, and I probably got it from /r/196 to begin with :p
- I've been told that if you add the text "Made with Memetic" at the bottom, it counteracts the Snoo-pidity.
yeah, at the very least have a decency to crop the r***t UI.

Damn this is an excellent example. I'm 100% going to use this image in the future, thanks!

My mother worked for a real estate firm in the late 90s in bay ridge, Brooklyn where she was told to tell anyone calling in who sounded black or had a "black sounding name" that nothing was available or to quote ridiculous prices.

This shit ain't gone away at all.

Also, it’s easier to completely demolish the building. Accommodations can be made much easier, but no one does it because it’s too much work, the disabled people of the metaphor are figuring out ways around it.

Also the anti-disabled people knickknacks are still displayed EVERYWHERE

I live in hungary and when i went to san francisco one of the things i noticed that every shop, bus, street, etc was built in a way that it would be easy to use by disabled people. So regulations can help and people should support politicians eho actually want to change things(even when it turns out to be a little stupid like the cancer warnings on basically everything). Also californians are so warm and welcoming compared to hungarians.
- to continue this incredibly labored metaphor, yeah things are kinda nice for everyone when there are accommodations for disabled, or mobility compromised people. There's a term for when accommodations for one group, like sidewalk curb cut-outs, actually have a multiplicative benefit for everyone, even outside of the principle group. Curb cut-outs on sidewalks make it easier for wheelchair users, and the blind, but also they benefit strollers, old people, and delivery people getting up the curb.
  so making the house nice for disable people actually makes it nice for everyone.
  to drop the metaphor, yeah getting rid of systemic racism is actually nice for everyone
- And these ADA accommodations were hard-fought for by disability activists, many of them disabled themselves because nobody else cared! The same thing is happening with any kind of prejudice or injustice against any marginalized group. We need to stop with the "fuck you, I got mine" mentality if we hope to advance as a compassionate species. But the older I get, the more I feel the tribalism is too hard-coded into humans and is too easily exploited by greedy/fascist interests. Solidarity is the only way...if we could just get over ourselves for one second.
Not to mention that the hotel does what it can to keep existing through anti disabled propaganda and incentives for the workers to be anti disabled
- “That’s just the culture around here”

But on top of that, the previous owner raised the new one. On top of the hotel issue we now have the same issues, but with the new owner

The analogy is a little shaky but yeah that's a pretty good intro. The hard issue to solve here is with how this injustice is resolved. I think the most reasonable solution attacks the problem directly: rewriting racist laws (like zoning) and punishing or heavily disincentivising racist behavior in government officials (including police and judges). In the analogy, this would be equivalent to enacting hotel policies against discrimination and retrofitting disabled-accessible options into the building.

That still isn't directly Attacking the problem, you remove racist laws however you still have a system in place to add oppressive laws so they will come back. The problem isn't the laws or the government officials it's the whole damn system and unless you change the system it will continue to oppress. The hotel is designed to be discriminatory and to slowly go back to being discriminatory (as you said shaky anlogy) if changes are to be made. The only real solution is tearing the whole hotel down and building a park there
- I appreciate your response but I'm lost. What exactly is the system if it's not the government, the laws, and their lasting effects? Are we just talking about society?

What view are they trying to counter here? I understand all the words of the post and I agree with the logic but I don't see in what situation this argument is useful. Perhaps I'm lucky not to have been exposed to the people for whom it would be useful...

Edit: I saw some very clear answers to my questions after scrolling down a bit. I think I just didn't understand what the term "systemic" meant here.

There are people who believe that any kind of fix to counter discrimination is unnecessary, because "well I'm not racist, and I certainly haven't discriminated in X way, so nothing needs to change". They are either unaware or ignoring the reality that the effects of past discrimination don't go away just because the people that did it are gone.
- Thank you. I never thought of it that way even though I'm quite passionate about the topic. Passionate but not well informed it seems...
"wow you are trying to punish x people for wrongdoings of their parents/grandparents" is the argument it's trying to counter.

Yeah that's why we need to fight harder
Yeah,all you have to do is change hearts and minds. Problem solved.

Oh that's neat!

I thought this was fuckcars for a second and it would end differently , but very similarly!! Car centrism is another form of discrimination.

Yes! I’m very glad to live in a place where at 32 I still don’t need a driver’s license. I can see how crippling and isolating it can be to need a car (e.g. North America), but not being able to drive it.
I’m very much a car guy. I love cars, I love driving them, I love fixing them, etc.
I wholeheartedly wish they were purely optional. Please put less people on the roads, let more people use cheaper public transportation, and let those distracted drivers stay out of heavy machinery!
Not to mention, sometimes walking is just preferred. I visited Chicago without a car and it was fantastic. Walking and trains were all I needed, and it was great. Definitely want more of that around, especially for cross country options.

Does a business owner need to accommodate disabled people? Answer in your own opinion

By law, yes, because you people wouldn't never account for any kind of minority unless if forced.
Y'all wouldn't return the cart unless to recover the coin. There's people beating up rough sleepers. People are intrinsically selfish
- Not all people are intrinsically selfish. Most people return the cart.
Yes
The only reasonable reason why not, would be that it would be impossible to do so. If you are physically able to add those accomodations and not doing it then well you are a bigot that makes people's lives more difficult on purpose.

"This is the way it's normally/always been done" is an extension of that shit, usually done to excuse things that should not be excused and can and should change.

I loathe the "appeal to tradition". It is an argument in favor of stagnation rather than progress.

Like what?

You want examples of systemic racism?
Poverty is inherited and it's impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Black people in America are poor because they used to be slaves
White cultural traditions are legal in Australia. Many aboriginal cultural traditions have been made illegal in Australia due to land ownership changes
Black people are under-represented in universities, so the university scientists building facial recognition apps aren't building them to work on black people
Schools teach their lessons in english. Multilingual students who don't speak english at home often have a disadvantage in lessons that will be felt their whole lives
Children of illegal immigrants may have never received identification such as a birth certificate and it can be hard to get this as an adult
Whenever the police use robotic and computer systems to detect criminals the AI ends up racial profiling and harassing black people
- Poverty is inherited and it's impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Black people in America are poor because they used to be slaves
  That's capitalism's fault. Poor white kids would face the same issues.
  Black people are under-represented in universities, so the university scientists building facial recognition apps aren't building them to work on black people
  That's just a lack of data points and not a system constructed by anyone. The data points should be increasing naturally.
  Schools teach their lessons in english. Multilingual students who don't speak english at home often have a disadvantage in lessons that will be felt their whole lives
  It'd be awesome if we can just solve language barriers generally. Before we can do that having a single official language in working situations seems to be not avoidable for productivity.
  Children of illegal immigrants may have never received identification such as a birth certificate and it can be hard to get this as an adult
  Not related to racism.
  Whenever the police use robotic and computer systems to detect criminals the AI ends up racial profiling and harassing black people
  Is this happening? I think it's straight out wrong to predict criminals with AI trained on previous data.
  All in all I agree that many of the existing systems sucks but I don't think it's helpful to link every problem to racism. Disclaimer: I'm not black or white
- Schools teach their lessons in english.
  When you have to pick a language to teach in, isn't this the best language to teach in though, in a predominantly English speaking society?
  I don't think segregating classes into separate language-based ones would be a good idea. That leaves kids not speaking English at home nor at school in an even bigger disadvantage in terms of learning English and we need we need kids of all different backgrounds mixing together so that they may understand and accept one another.
- I'd add for the "school in English/dominant spoken language" part (because compared to the other it doesn't seem that bad) in a quite a few cases it stems from a previous active effort to suppress a culture that was never really 'fixed', not simply just "eh I don't understand so why do I have to cater for it?".
  If you're European, chances are you can name a good few examples that happened in your borders, both as something you did or something that was used against you
- Poverty: Same thing for any people of any race the most important part is their ability to get an education that'll get them out of it while having stability, slavery has nothing to do with it.
  Australia: I live in Australia what are you talking about?!
  Black people are up to 4 times more likely to be accepted in American medical universities due to diversity quotas https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/med.png
  Of course schools teach in the language of the country they are in do you expect them to teach in 5 different languages?!
  It makes sense that the government doesn't want to encourage illegal immigration.
  So facial recognition doesn't work on black people but ai facial recognition can discriminate against them?
  Seriously it seems that your taking all this out of your imagination.
structural poverty spanning generations, the legacy of redlining, a massive transfer of wealth out of the hands of the Black community, worse schools in the urban core, etc, etc, etc
Jerry mandering
- Someone should tell Jerry to stop that

Idk who has to pay, are you trying to say old families that had slaves in any country and it can be proven they did should have to pay? So much shit that's happened in history has had no reparations.

Literally best explanation I have ever heard