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Another case of things originally done to help blacks that have been reinterpreted as racist is race norming of cognitive tests. Lots of people complained when the NFL use race-normed cognitive tests when deciding who got concussion payouts. I believe this sort of race norming was originally done to keep a large number of blacks from being classified as mentally deficient.

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Another case is the "Defund the police" movement.

Trying to get fewer black people killed it got more. This one is especially painful since the consequences were obvious from the very beginning.

Once people get to a state of mind in which "black lives matters, so defund the police" is a valid form of reasoning you can expect the worst happening

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Who regards race norming as racist?

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All the people who screamed at the NFL.

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That reminds me of Reagan's 9 most terrifying words in the English lenguage

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It sounds like you believe in systemic racism.

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I believe there are policies and institutions that harm blacks more than they harm people of other races. Surely we know that. You can use the word "systemic racism" for that if you want; that's a matter of semantics.

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Do you think systemic racism is too broad a category to give a word with such negative connotations?

E.g. reducing penalties for crack cocaine disproportionately hurts black communities who will use the drug.

E.g. lockdowns are systemically racist because black people are more vulnerable to economic hardship. But also, not lockdowns are systemically racist because black people are more likely to die from Covid.

It's pretty easy to do this with immigration, abortion, gun control, etc. because there are a handful of races, a ton of dimensions across which it could have an effect (income, crime, population, etc), and several orders of effects to look for the systemic racism.

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True, it's probably going to wind up that everything is racist in some way. If "being racist" is unavoidable, then the notion doesn't help us decide what to do.

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Would you regard affirmative action as systemically racist against whites?

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It is systemically racist against all races, as it harms people of all races. That's a topic for another post.

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