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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmph.

As others have pointed out, the definition of racism is constantly changing to fit whatever the latest dogmatic narrative is. And along with it is the definition of diversity.

We now live in a day where a school that is 50% white and 40% Asian/South Asian (including many of recent immigration heritage) isn't considered diverse.

I grew up in Baltimore so my views on the causes of institutional urban poverty doesn't quite fit the popular narrative these days. I think there's a lot of willful denial and people are latching onto "racism" and changing/expanding the definition to avoid tackling the real problems because it's easier to blame other people rather than yourself for the failures of your own actions. This does not mean there isn't racism or that there haven't been racist actions but I don't buy the argument of a systematic institutional racism being the source of the problem. And the racist inquisition and their enablers fully ignore the full range of human discrimination and biases that affects everyone. Race is just one of many, many ways people judge each other by. [/quote]

I also grew up in Baltimore. West Baltimore in the 1970s and 80s. If you scratch beneath the surface, you see how systemic racism and classism shaped some of the “choices” people make. In my family’s case, denial of GI Bill benefits to the older men in the family and redlining stopped them from accessing the tools white working class men could use to enter the lower middle class.

Look at this article. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/10/18/poor-kids-who-do-everything-right-dont-do-better-than-rich-kids-who-do-everything-wrong/

I see my cousins in the argument made about people kids who do nothing wrong.

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