{"id":880,"date":"2021-06-10T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=880"},"modified":"2021-06-10T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:45:44","slug":"my-own-thoughts-on-systemic-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2021\/06\/10\/my-own-thoughts-on-systemic-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"My Own Thoughts on &#8220;Systemic&#8221; Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The definitive evidence of &#8220;systemic&#8221; racism is that we all systematically refer to &#8220;race&#8221; in these discussions. A concept which has no objective, scientific basis.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In other words, race is emic, not etic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2020\/12\/31\/race-is-emic\/\">Boas&#8217;s presumption<\/a> is wrong. Science and reason do not sway the public assumption that races exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If our life experience has taught us anything, it is that continuing a pattern of &#8216;race-consciousness&#8217; does not cure racism. It merely perpetuates it.&#8221; Larry Purdy, Getting Under the Skin of &#8220;Diversity&#8221;: Searching for the Color-Blind Ideal<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone actually believe that white male racists are non-embodied?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The definitive evidence of &#8220;systemic&#8221; racism is that we all systematically refer to &#8220;race&#8221; in these discussions. A concept which has no objective, scientific basis.\u00a0 In other words, race is emic, not etic. Boas&#8217;s presumption is wrong. Science and reason do not sway the public assumption that races exist. &#8220;If our life experience has taught &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2021\/06\/10\/my-own-thoughts-on-systemic-racism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Own Thoughts on &#8220;Systemic&#8221; Racism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[82,79],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-mcwhorter","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}