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Re:Apple launches new Racial Equity and Justice Initiative p... by seneca on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:03AM (#25762786)
> Racism is discrimination plus systemic power imbalances that enforce this discrimination.

> One can be discriminatory towards the powerful group (e.g. white people in the US for instance), but not racist towards them.

Just for anyone reading this who isn't familiar: this is a radical theory and isn't at all a generally accepted idea.

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Re:Apple launches new Racial Equity and Justice Initiative p... by Pfhreak on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:00AM (#25763713)
It is an academic and critical view, and not what a layperson understands racism to be. I'll acknowledge that.

And it's also a viewpoint that is more commonly held by the political left. I'll grant that too.

Describing it as 'radical' is something I'd disagree with.

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