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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
Individual-level is the opposite of society-level. A lot of this stuff is based on perception of prejudice as opposed to materialized outcomes of discrimination like educational and economic deprivation. At the individual-level, people do imagine things or make assumptions so we can't pretend that every claim will be valid. At the society-level, we have millions of people from which to generalize so we don't have to rely on more individual-level accounts. It's one thing to say that 10 people are imagining things or just have bad personalities (as Dionysus pointed out). But, chances are millions of people can't have such an active imagination or just bad personalities (as Dionysus pointed out) on a semi-regular basis.
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I agree with that. I do not think that we disagree on this issue at hand. I think that my original statement was misinterpreted. As I previously stated SOMETIMES yes.
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Originally posted by Dionysus
Why would one not feel that way? On the individual level it can be quite hard to tell why you might be treated differently. If you're always looking through the lens of racism, it could be easy to mistake sexism, ageism, classism, lookism, or whatever other -isms that are out there for racism. -Isms aside, it might just be your demeanor or personality.
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I am not always looking through the lens of racism. Maybe the better term would have been racial prejudice when I was referring to "Black women".