How can prominent Republican politicians deny the existence of systemic racism? @MehdiRHasan asks if it’s ignorance, dishonesty or maybe pandering to a reactionary white base? @ProfTriciaRose says all of the above: “It’s very much about intentional & performed ignorance.”

May 3, 2021 · 12:27 AM UTC

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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @MSNBC @mehdirhasan @ProfTriciaRose
What is definitely systemic racism is a political party that supported and fought for slavery, Jim Crow laws, started the KKK and put Japanese Americans into internment camps. How can any person support the Democrat party's continued existence?
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @MSNBC @mehdirhasan @ProfTriciaRose
Yup
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This seems to be Mehdi's blind spot. He does not seem to approach this topic rationally. This is a legitimate debate. SO many assertions, but so little sound arguments, seems to me. Is the question whether systemic racism HAS existed in this country or SILL exists, or "echoes"?
Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @ProfTriciaRose
There is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, or of a non-Arab over an Arab, and no superiority of a white person over a black person or of a black person over a white person, except on the basis of personal piety and righteousness. #BlackLivesMatter
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Systematic racism Joe Biden 40 years Nancy Pelosi 30 years Chuck Schumer 40 years All major cities run by Democrats
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Excellent interview.
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I do not agree
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Anu @TheAnuhart
30 Apr 2021
Replying to @mehdirhasan @jasonintrator
Self defeating argument. People in the government, the system, who say there is no systemic racism, must therefore be claiming that the statistic differences between races are a result of genetics. Which is in itself a prime and shocking example of systemic racism at work.
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @ProfTriciaRose
Mehdi, Ask the British Government about the conclusions of the recent report on racism in the UK. Apparently the UK does not have systemic racism either. What a coincidence.
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @ProfTriciaRose
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." Thomas Pynchon Don't get drawn in by the distractive question, but commit to exorcising racism embedded in our current systems.
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