Steve QJ
Jul 24, 2021

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It's not that I don't see your point, I think I was clear that the discrimination currently being targeted at white people pales in comparison to what's happened to black people for generations (and still happens). But I don't understand this idea that the individual is meaningless compared to the societal.

Individuals vote. Individuals employ one another. Individuals interact with each other in ways that are positive or negative. Derek Chauvin is an individual. Dylann Roof is an individual. Martin Luther King was an individual.

The impact of racism isn't limited to individual behaviour. I think we'd agree on that. But that doesn't mean that we should never talk about or think about individual racism does it? You never know what will happen when you change and individual's mind for the better or, sometimes more importantly, for the worse.

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Steve QJ
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