Unless something happened in the interim that I'm unaware of, that law was struck down (https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038354159/n-c-judges-strike-down-a-voter-id-law-they-say-discriminates-against-black-voter).

But more to the point, this has nothing to do with Scott Adams saying racist things on the internet. Or whether Elie Mystal or Aruna Khilanani saying racist things on the internet is any less meaningful.

It has nothing to do with black people being called ni**ers and slaves by customers as they try to do their jobs. It has nothing to do with them being less likely to get a job. It has nothing to do with an education system where young black people are consistently told that the world is against them, chipping away at their confidence and ambition.

It also has nothing to do with black elementary school kids thinking it's a good idea to make their white classmates kneel and pledge allegiance to BLM. It has nothing to do with this asshole yelling at a child on the subway because he's white.

All of this is racism too.

I'm not denying the existence of systemic racism. Though its influence is less all-encompassing than most people claim. But to suggest that this is all there is to racism, or that racist people of colour don't have any culpability in perpetuating racism, badly misses the point.

It is also, as I said before, white supremacy in the true sense of the term. It is a view built, however well intentioned, on the premise that white people as individuals, not as a demographic, inherently hold more power than black people. This isn't true. We can talk about systemic racism and racial disparity without pretending that it is true.