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Meaningless, as your contrived construct here is simply not happening all throughout northern capitalist countries to qualify it definitively according to Merriam-Webster to be "structural"/"institutional"/"systemic" racism.Still, there's a sizable difference in levels of bigotry between burning crosses in their yard versus genuinely wishing them well while subconsciously underestimating their capabilities or qualifications, or only appreciating the ones who "act white." Do you agree?
So it's not worth discussing.
Critical race theory was developed in the late 1970s, mostly by Professor Derrick Bell, a communist, who said that "capitalism is evil". The erroneous term "microaggression" was coined then. Esoteric use of the term to erroneously refer to supposedly "unconscious" or "unintended" racist expressions can be found, as your post here presents, in various places since then. BLM, however, is the first organization to really run with CRT and its erroneously employed control-based terms as a means of mass manipulation. Referencing an erroneous term or a terms erroneous use, as you do regarding "microaggression", doesn't make that term less erroneous or meaningless.You may have first heard about the concept of microaggressions from BLM last summer, but Psychology Today talked about it 10 years ago and it involves more than just race.
Neither of your examples reflect racism. The first one merely jumps to a conclusion without interviewing the decision makers, thus it merely assumes, and thereby cannot be considered a valid study. A particular firm could have maxed out its "quota" of a particular race and rejected those it thought belonged to that race. That's not an example of racism; that's an example of perhaps jumping to a conclusion.On equity disparity and systemic racism, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, as of 2003 resumes with black names were 50% less likely to get called for interviews. And here are 26 more examples from BI.
The second one is an opinion piece. I viewed some of the 26 examples and they were clearly not evidence of racism. I'm pretty sure none of them were. Again, without knowing the accurate "why" of a matter, you're just jumping to conclusions.
And again, for there to be systemic racism it has to be: 1) shown for certain that it's indeed racism, and 2) it must exist, according to Merriam-Webster, essentially throughout the, in this topically relevant case, entire country.
Your examples showed neither to be the case.
Having read the blog post and studied BLM and CRT myself I can tell you that if you want to learn the truth about BLM and CRT that particular blog is the best I've read. It even references scientific studies and Wikipedia. It's pretty much right on.I appreciate the offer for more relevant information on CRT, but my beliefs are not based on CRT and as you can probably see I prefer high quality sources of authority, not so much things like blog posts from BraveNewAmerican. Thanks though!
But your supposed preference for "high quality sources of authority" is considerably suspect, considering you've rejected the highest quality definitive source for the definition of "racism", Merriam-Webster, falsely alleging it to be "incomplete".