{"id":17178,"date":"2020-10-14T04:51:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17178"},"modified":"2020-10-14T04:51:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:51:51","slug":"no-its-not-systemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/10\/14\/no-its-not-systemic\/","title":{"rendered":"No, It&#8217;s Not Systemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah yes, Twitter, where one can find astute and insightful commentary such as this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" > Just like your mum&#39;s intact hymen you trump goblin \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; L.A. Mad (@l_a_mad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/l_a_mad\/status\/1297297725147492352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">&quot;Twitter account with politically incorrect hot take claims racism isn&#39;t real because they haven&#39;t faced it&quot; <br \/>Way to post an anime girl, man, you definitely weren&#39;t bullied growing up<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; L.A. Mad (@l_a_mad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/l_a_mad\/status\/1297301044737835013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Let us look at the crux of the \u201cpeanut brain\u201d simplified argument.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">&#038;&#038;Let me simplify it for your peanut brain:<br \/>Black people lived under segregation, in worse parts of town with less funding. Now it was ended, obviously, but the state of the communities stayed very much the same. Now, our systems didn&#39;t do much to help them,-<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; L.A. Mad (@l_a_mad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/l_a_mad\/status\/1297302280757293058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">&#038;&#038;-and instead sent disproportionately more cops into their neighborhoods, under the excuse of the war on drugs. The system is also heavily prejudiced against people of poorer communities (I already explained why they&#39;re that represented in it)-<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; L.A. Mad (@l_a_mad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/l_a_mad\/status\/1297302899798794240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">&#038;&#038;-and instead sent disproportionately more cops into their neighborhoods, under the excuse of the war on drugs. The system is also heavily prejudiced against people of poorer communities (I already explained why they&#39;re that represented in it)-<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; L.A. Mad (@l_a_mad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/l_a_mad\/status\/1297302899798794240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Let\u2019s break this down, shall we?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, there was segregation, but now-a-days that\u2019s considered a plus. When it comes to funding, schools with predominantly Black classes tend to be well funded, abet run by the Left-most \u201cprofessionals\u201d\u2014certainly not the KKK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Note the conflation of race and socio-economic status. A correlation does not prove that racism, let alone \u201csystemic racism\u201d. The correlation, and causation, is presumed based on historical segregation, but fails to take into account that low socio-economic status has occurred, and still occurs, across racial lines. But this isn\u2019t caused by \u201csystemic racism\u201d or any other \u201csystemic\u201d problem in the United States as if prosperity was the default norm for humaniity. In reality, it is in the United States where people have the freedom to rise above that default and achieve prosperity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The presence of police serves to crack down on crime, which is a net benefit to people who are <em>relatively<\/em> poor compared to other Americans <em>of all races<\/em>. Just take a gander at the effect of the #DefundThePolice nonsense and limiting policing: Crime goes up, and to paraphrase the NY Times, women and minorities hardest hurt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By the \u201csystem\u201d (there always has to be a \u201csystem of oppression\u201d to blame, isn\u2019t there?), they mean America itself. We memorializes the past, as it is natural and normal to highlight the many, many wonderful people, events, and achievements of America. Confederate memorials were a sop to the losing side in a Civil War fought over the abolition of slavery for the sake of unity. \u00a0 But this isn\u2019t about Confederate statues, but of iconoclasm against America itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of note, it is hard to claim \u201cracism\u201d by police when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pitchaxis\/status\/1297317253797613568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they do the same exact thing to White suspects<\/a> who resist arrest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EExN4mXRies\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/l_a_mad\/status\/1297303435860234240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">systemic<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/l_a_mad\/status\/1297304476005666818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lie persists<\/a>, ignoring that slavery was a foreign import that always stood in contrast with the heritage of the Colonials in America, or the Common Law that stood above the rulers. And don\u2019t let an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/whats-new\/2016\/systemic-racism-is-real\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ice cream company<\/a> convince you otherwise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Americans can be guilted by slavery because at America\u2019s core, it was incompatible with it. \u00a0 Those who accuse America of being \u201csystemically\u201d evil do so because that is compatible with their worldview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8772\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/muaddib.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/muaddib.png 800w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/muaddib-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/thats-racist.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16441\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No, It's Not Systemic\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ah yes, Twitter, where one can find astute and insightful commentary such as this.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/thats-racist.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah yes, Twitter, where one can find astute and insightful commentary such as this. Just like your mum&#39;s intact hymen you trump goblin \ud83d\ude0e &mdash; L.A. Mad (@l_a_mad) August 22, 2020 &quot;Twitter account with politically incorrect hot take claims racism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/10\/14\/no-its-not-systemic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[22,48],"class_list":["post-17178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-fail","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17179,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178\/revisions\/17179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}