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Re:Looking at the experience of black Britons through an Ame... by tobr on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:29AM (#24661086)
There seems to be confusion about “systemic” vs “systematic” here. Systematic racism would imply a system that is designed to achieve racism. The more common term is systemic racism, which implies racism more or less as a “side effect” of a structure or system that arguably has a different, benign purpose.
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Re:Looking at the experience of black Britons through an Ame... by theshrike79 on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:38AM (#24661136)
I'd argue that the American system was systematically build to be systemic :)

There are laws in the US that, on the surface, seem to be benign, but upon closer inspection are specifically and systematically created to target a certain racial group disproportionately.

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