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Vicenti wrote:It depends. I mean how many whites are racist? In my estimation very few, and I would know because I am white. Racism is hard to hide, and in my experience comes out quickly in the form of an n-word or a racist joke. Putting non racists in power is easy, eradicating personal racism is impossible. I’m referring to systematic problems, which are easy to solve. Systematic vs. Personal seems to be where you are getting at and like I said, I have no solutions to racist individuals, only a troubled system.

well i will be real with you this demonstrates that you do not understand racism! a white guy estimating that very few white people are racist indicates only that you don't know how to spot racism because you've never experienced it, not that very few of us are racist. racism is in fact wildly prevalent. racism also takes many forms, many of which are quite easy to hide. not every demonstration of racism involves a slur. we don't need "non-racists in power," we need anti-racists, because anything short of anti-racism activism is complacency. calling systematic problems easy to solve is also just frankly absurd. they're deeply entrenched, life-ruining, and will be incredibly difficult to root out.

Vicenti wrote:Your opinion. Mine is mine. Sometimes the solution is not on the surface, sometimes is is not easy to see. Sometimes what appears to be a problem in sector A is actually a problem in sector Z. That is all I am trying to say.

you can't "agree to disagree" your way out of suggesting that the solution to social oppression is to make 0 social change. societal oppression exists because of systematic and interpersonal bigotry. going "but what if we just solved everything economically" only serves to detract from what minorities know will bring social progress. you can't instruct people to just look away from oppression and hope a hypothetical economic revolution magically solves it.

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