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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You are fine labeling jokes and systems as racist. You do not call individual people "racists" hardly ever, because, as you say, you refuse to infer it. You require proof, which means that the person needs to self-describe as a racist. You're committed to the idea that it is everywhere around us, but almost never anywhere in particular, like an electron -- strong negative effects, but hardly any discernible actual mass.
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Actually, the post to which you were responding was one in which I was referring to specific people as racist.
I did not list all of the judges, prison guards, probation officers, comedians, and various other individuals who have exhibited behavior or made statements indicating they are racists because I'd prefer to avoid libel claims. But those are people, not "systems."
You're actually the one claiming racism is a system all around us. Recall just a few posts back that discussion of a racist status quo? A status quo is a condition resulting from a system (actually, it's many systems working together, but whatever...).
