John McWhorter touches on, but does not quite nail down a central problem with the notion of systemic racism. He observes that “the expression of overt personal prejudice was increasingly proscribed and such prejudice itself waned ever more, leaving behind subtler kinds of bias less easily addressed.” Subtle, indeed. The causes of dispar…
John McWhorter touches on, but does not quite nail down a central problem with the notion of systemic racism. He observes that “the expression of overt personal prejudice was increasingly proscribed and such prejudice itself waned ever more, leaving behind subtler kinds of bias less easily addressed.” Subtle, indeed. The causes of disparate outcomes is akin to the case of “climate change”. There are myriad influences on the outcome, only some of which we can identify, and of those, we have no useful metric to assign to them. This, of course, is the great strategic beauty of the whole idea of systemic racism – when it is impossible to measure or even to innumerate all the causes, simply intoning “systemic racism” – or, as “Beto” O'Rourke called it, “foundational racism” – does the trick.
Glenn Loury went there, though, and summed it all up nicely. It is really black Americans who are the ultimate victims of all the “remedies” cooked up by the woke mob for their imaginary systemic racism.
John McWhorter touches on, but does not quite nail down a central problem with the notion of systemic racism. He observes that “the expression of overt personal prejudice was increasingly proscribed and such prejudice itself waned ever more, leaving behind subtler kinds of bias less easily addressed.” Subtle, indeed. The causes of disparate outcomes is akin to the case of “climate change”. There are myriad influences on the outcome, only some of which we can identify, and of those, we have no useful metric to assign to them. This, of course, is the great strategic beauty of the whole idea of systemic racism – when it is impossible to measure or even to innumerate all the causes, simply intoning “systemic racism” – or, as “Beto” O'Rourke called it, “foundational racism” – does the trick.
Glenn Loury went there, though, and summed it all up nicely. It is really black Americans who are the ultimate victims of all the “remedies” cooked up by the woke mob for their imaginary systemic racism.