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Comment by minitoar | Hacker News Reader

Bit off topic, but Lunduke is a racism denier. It's hard for me take anything he says seriously when he just completely denies the existence of systemic racism.

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You might be right (I don't really know for sure), but this is an ad hominem fallacy, which is probably why it's getting downvoted.

I disagree it's an ad hominem fallacy. I'm judging him on his opinions and what he writes. I'm not surprised about the downvotes.

I remember him beating to death the horse that was "social justice warriors taking over our open source projects" and I stopped following his youtube around that time (I think it was 2017?)

That said it's kind of irrelevant to the topic.

Systemic - to me at least - means it's a matter of law, thus it affects everyone. I prefer to think of today's instances of racism as an individual/collective (by collective, I don't mean LARGE numbers necessarily) occurrences, rather than systemic. Assuming you aren't looking for perfection - which means no racist thought/word/deed in anyone in the USA - including non-whites who can also be very racist, fyi - then I'd say racism is on the whole pretty rare.

On the other hand, I do believe mental slavery is more prevalent than individual/collective racism :).

The War on Drugs is a well known example of systemic racism. Many police departments are known to target non-whites as a matter of policy.

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