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Society isn’t systemically racist. It is systemically woke

15 June 2020

4:30 AM

15 June 2020

4:30 AM

Structural, systemic, systematically — we’re hearing these words a lot at the moment. Racism isn’t individual. It is structural or systemic. So are poverty or injustice. People aren’t just oppressed or tortured; they are systematically oppressed or torture.

This is the language of Black Lives Matter and some of the noisier Democrats, and it’s telling.

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