Stuff like that leaves out the details so to why those things are and one would need to be led, by hand and on assumption, to form the conclusion of systemic racism. Those need to be unpacked and stop confusing cause for effect and vice versa. Those sources do absolutely nothing to prove systemic racism, because you'd need to prove racist motive....it's just not there; no leaps to conclusions here.
Exactly what I predicted, mental gymnastics to try to blame these consistent patterns on anything other than racism. Also, your claim about motive shows that you really don't understand what systemic racism is or how it works. Individuals with racist motives are not required. All that's required is that systems exist that have disproportionate effects on people by race, and people work within those systems and benefit from them without trying to understand why they work the way they do, or challenging them.
Not that there aren't actively, maliciously racist people with power in the US, but they are not the norm - I think we can both agree on that. Rather, it's the legacy of systems still in place that cause adverse outcomes for minorities, and denying that that exists is contributing to the problem.
Part of it is the simplistic, black-and-white idea that a person either is or isn't 'a racist'. Racism is a lot more insidious than that. You can have no racial animus at all, or even be a member of a minority, and still contribute to these systems that stack the deck against that minority without even realizing it.
Conservatives these days seem so obsessed with trying to avoid accusations of being racist that they try to deny that racism is even a problem, because they think that admitting it is would somehow incriminate them.
On the other hand, many people are perfectly comfortable saying 'I'm not racist, I don't have any animus against minorities, but I do realize that society in the US is structured in a way that benefits me more than blacks or Hispanics, and I want to raise awareness of the issue so something can be done to change that.'
BLM leaders have stated they themselves are marxists. Antifa waving communist flags.... It's not my word or imagery, but their own.
Are those specific people the topic of this thread? Then I really couldn't care less.
Will you answer the question though? It's boolean.
First define what you even mean by 'Marxist.' Did you know that Marx rejected the idea that arguments based on equality and justice were good reasons to establish or change a government? That's the exact opposite of what those in favor of social justice believe. That's just one of the many ways the modern right-wing misunderstands and misapplies the label of 'Marxism'.
