 Okay, let's talk about systemic racism. Now, before we get a systemic racism, what is racism? What is racism? So I want to read you a section out of Ayn Rand's article on racism because I can't think of anything that is better in terms of defining and describing what racism is and how low it actually is. I can't read you the whole article. You should definitely go read it. All you have to do is put in to Google Ayn Rand racism and the article is the first thing you get and you can go and read the whole thing. It's definitely an article you should read. It's in the book, Ayn Rand's book, The Virtue of Selfishness. And here's what Ayn Rand says about racism. Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social, or political significance to a man's genetic lineage. The notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry, which means in practice that a man is to be judged not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors. Isn't she brilliant? Racism claims that the content of a man's mind, not as cognitive apparatus, but its content is inherited. That a man's convictions, values, and character are determined before he is born by physical factors beyond his control. This is the caveman's version of the doctrine of innate ideas or of inherited knowledge, which is being thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men. Like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attributes which distinguishes man from all other living species, his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of man's life, reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predisposition. Predestination, sorry, predestination. Now that's brilliant as all Einren's writing is. It's truly amazing. But racism is judging a person, not by his own character and actions, but by the color of his skin, or his ethnic group, or his race, however you want to define race, I think race is a bogus concept, whatever you want to define race. By his genes, by his ancestors, by where he comes from in the world, by where he was born, by fill in the blank, not by his own character and actions. So it's judging a person based in this context, in the context we're talking right now of the riots out there, by the color of his skin, let's say. Judging him, judging his worth, and evaluating him, you know, whether he gets a mortgage or not, you determine whether based on the color of his skin, whether the kind of treatment he gets in the police, based on the color of his skin, whether you trust him or not, based on the color of his skin, whether you employ him or not, based on the color of his skin, all of that is racism. So the question is, is there such a thing as systemic racism? Now what does systemic racism mean? So here, again, I am referring to Jonah Goldberg's article, which is excellent, by the way, speech is not violent. Jonah Goldberg generally is an excellent writer. I don't always agree with him much. I don't agree with him. He's a conservative, but one of the better conservatives. One of the conservatives I view in many respects as an ally, although in other respects is not, but in some respects as an ally. He writes, systemic racism, also called institutional racism, is a theoretical framework that says, a society can have deeply embedded racist mechanisms and ideas within it that yield racist results, treat people differently based on color of skin, for example. That's me. Even if the individuals working within it aren't racist. So all of us might not be racist, but because the way the laws and the institutions are structured, they discriminate against people based on race. Now here is a definition from somewhere that he cites, quote, systemic racism or institutional racism refers to how ideas of white supremacy are captured in everyday thinking at the systems level, taking in the big picture of how society operates rather than looking at one-on-one interactions. These systems can include laws and regulations, but also unquestioned social systems. Systemic racism can stem from education, hiring practices or access. Okay, that is pretty abstract. I looked at that and I said, what does any of that mean? How do they think this actually operates? I'm not ruling it out, but how does it happen? What is the mechanism by which there is a system that implements racism even though there are no racists behind it? So, luckily for me, somebody sent me a video where they're trying to basically provide an explanation of systemic racism. We could call this systemic racism for dummies. Simple, animated, right? Now, of course, the obvious way you could have systemic racism is if the laws were racist and we'll get to that. But I think what they mean is something more subtle because many of the laws have been changed to be significantly less racist, right? And indeed, maybe even what you'd call reverse racism. So, you know, in the 21st century, it's unlikely to be just the laws. They're implying that it's something more subtle, something much more than the laws. 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