People seem to believe that the US 'system' is racist.
Though its never pointed out which systems, or in what way. Is it all made up to drum people into support like a faux-religion?
Institutional racism
Parker Cooper
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Connor Wilson
Not entirely. And it is an issue that's not only been commodified, but harpooned by liberals.
It certainly is racist if you have people abusing institutions to carry out discrimination/ bigotry, for example, white supremacists in the police force, or private companies that deny service to people based on identity.
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Most responses from liberals have been typically "hire more (insert identity here CEO's) as opposed to any anarchist or marxist praxis, which would be to do away with the system entirely so as to not perpetuate forms of racism/ combat racism etc.
Michael Taylor
Capitalism requires exploitation of one part of the population in favor of another. In "classless" America, you've got to justify the existence of an underclass, and the US tends to do it along racialist lines. Historically this has been the Black population, but also "lesser races" like the Poles, Irish, Hispanics, and so on.
There are numerous examples of what I guess you could call governmental racism, such as the Drug War which intentionally targets Black people and those on "the Left," or the recent Voter ID hysteria which is also generally targeted at Black voters, and the various laws and institutions which hobble former felons, basically ensuring recidivism and rolling generations of disenfranchisement. I think I saw recently that 25% of Florida's Black adult male population is ineligible to vote for reasons like that. Or take Louisianna's system of using felons as house slaves to run their Governor's mansion and capital building.
That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are innumerable other examples.
Jaxson Allen
QED motherfucker
Jeremiah Cox
[citation needed]
Nathan Morgan
Bingo. Perhaps in the past there was institutional racism, but the only institutional racism I've seen growing up in New York City is the one perpetuated by people of color bringing down other people of color who want to succeed while whites bend over backwards to help.
Asher Lopez
interesting. Every time I delve into the issue I can't find substantive or compelling arguments. I'm typically met with shit like:
which I would guess falls into your last point.
Julian Nelson
opinion discarded
Leo Rogers
This entire thread is opinions. Sorry that my experience counters yours.
Leo Diaz
"The Spencers have received payments from two federal farm programs. One is the commodity subsidy program, intended to guarantee income for farmers who are helping to maintain supplies of certain crops deemed important by the government. The other is the conservation reserve program, which pays farmers for environmentally sound farming practices. Most of the $2 million paid to the Spencers has been in commodity subsidy payments for growing cotton."
This article wasn't particularly moving for me. It seems to descend into trump derangement syndrome halfway through. I can't entertain a serious argument that tries to paint trump as a racist because people began flying the stars and bars on their pickup trucks more often. Horrendous association of ideas from a seething journalist.
as for the quote above, I can understand that spencer is a distasteful person, and I know that it is important to subsidize your farming community. What I don't get is how institutional racism is implied here. Anyone who starts a farm can be subsidized. If anything, it means a NOI member can do the same and that it is not discriminatory.