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> (though "white supremacy" is perhaps a bad way to express "racism that benefits white people specifically")

Can you explain how racism that benefits white people specifically, as enabled through either direct, explicit bias in policies or laws, or indirect, implicit bias through a lack of diversity when conducting research on human computer interactions, or training corpus used for machine learning is not explicitly white supremacy?

These types of issues have been mainstream and well documented that they are at the centre of a 2009 episode of a sitcom (Better Off Ted, Racial Sensitivity), among many other more conventional studies of the phenomenon.

After decades of research (and centuries of practical observation) how is it even possible to handwave away systemic racism and bias "that benefits white people specifically" as anything other that white supremacy?

Edit: I accidentally left out the italicized part of the first question.

parent ygjb 5 years ago

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