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Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by fzeroracer on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:46PM (#18984452)
A policy that affects one group of people more than others by racial lines sounds like a racist policy, don't you think? Which was my entire point. You're in effect, arguing for a policy that is racist by your own prior argument.

We have affirmative action policies and the like because we admit that some groups of people are disadvantaged due to a multitude of circumstances and we attempt to do things in such a way as to ensure that they can mitigate those circumstances.

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Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by DuskStar on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:22PM (#18984749)
I think you're conflating the two different definitions of racism here. In one, something is racist if it has different impacts on people of different races - not due to their race, but due to some correlated variable. In another definition of racism, something is racist if it uses race as a determining factor in behavior or treatment.

Providing aid to low-income families is racist by the first definition, but not by the second. But (damn near) everything is racist by the first definition.

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