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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
Prejudice is learned. Racism is purposefully built into a system over time. Prejudice is annoying and sometimes dangerous depending on how people act on it. But, racism is a widely destructive force that is impossible to get out of the system without overhauling everything. A lot of people wouldn't like the results of that overhaul though.
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You've really got to stop these kinds of cryptic appeals to authority - not because you're necessarily wrong (although it is fallacious to presume that you're 100% correct based on the appeal), but because it serves as a giant stop sign for interaction in these sorts of threads.
While I mostly agree with the definitions you've outlined above, I openly question what constitutes a "complete overhaul" (and, in a related fashion, why you find it necessary to note that a lot of people wouldn't "like the results" but seem unwilling to identify whom or why) and why you have such a stark view of gradual change to a system. Racism was not instituted in a traumatic or instantaneous fashion, but rather gradually, over time, and in a robust and institutional way. Wouldn't the proper way to fight it be exactly the same?
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