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>A group of economists recently performed an experiment on around 100 of the largest companies in the country, applying for jobs using made-up resumes with equivalent qualifications but different personal characteristics. They changed applicants’ names to suggest that they were white or Black, and male or female — Latisha or Amy, Lamar or Adam.

Why is 'white' uncapitalised yet 'black' is... immediately after using white?

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probably an Oversight

It occurs throughout the entirety of the article.

It's a form of communism/marxism but it's hard to explain in short (by design). It's basically an ideology that has substituted class struggle with race and identity struggle. There are oppressors and there are oppressed, and the oppressed need a voice and people to fight on their behalf. The oppressed also get elevated and receive special treatment (hence the capital proper noun), and at the same time this is all done in a subversive way in order to smuggle it or shoehorn it into the culture. Additionally, if you question it or point it out you are accused of siding with the oppressors and called names like bigot, racist, etc.

> It's basically an ideology that has substituted class struggle with race and identity struggle. There are oppressors and there are oppressed, and the oppressed need a voice and people to fight on their behalf.

Do you think that treating people poorly and outright discriminate against them based on racism is only an ideological issue? To put it differently, do you think that South Africa's apartheid system is only a problem if you frame it through a communist/marxist perspective?

> Additionally, if you question it or point it out you are accused of siding with the oppressors and called names like bigot, racist, etc.

> Do you think that treating people poorly and outright discriminate against them based on racism is only an ideological issue?

Actually, yes, because racism is an ideology and a world view that says your own race/lineage is better.

> To put it differently, do you think that South Africa's apartheid system is only a problem if you frame it through a communist/marxist perspective?

Racists do exist, AND communists try to control society.

> Actually, yes, because racism is an ideology and a world view that says your own race/lineage is better.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

> Racists do exist, AND communists try to control society.

Clearly racism exists, but not because of ideologies or political and/or economical theory.

Institutionalized racism in private companies has absolutely no relationship with any red herring like communism or marxism.

Blabbering about communism in a discussion over racism sounds like a lame attempt at a false dichotomy and whitewashing institutional and casual racism.

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