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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Just about every one of these incidents can be accurately, or at least plausibly, attributed partly to systemic racism. There's just no way to convincingly determine to what extent systemic racism was to blame. And it's obviously never the only factor (no systemic factor could be). So saying that systemic racism was to blame for this strikes me as a fairly meaningless statement, regardless of what WO403's position is about that.
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I think the value in calling it out specifically as systemic racism is that it should force people to look deeper at why this happens.
If cases can be summed up as all laws were followed and no one is at fault like many of these cases then they are dismissed as acceptable.
Instead the system that leads to these events occurring needs to be evaluated and modified to prevent it. The value in labeling and specifically calling it out is to say the systems of laws that leads to these types of events occurring and being considered acceptable needs to change.