[specialist]

"By definition, racism is something only individuals can do and so racist laws are the product of racist people."

Are hackers criminals? You may think that hackers == people who like to tinker. Alas. Society coopted the term.

Please don't get stuck on formal definitions. I doubt that pedantry over "racist", "systemic racism" will much help public discourse, the current debate. As evidenced by the push back you've received here.

Maybe whenever you hear "racism", you can realtime translate to "prejudice and bias, often times racially motivated, or even just adjacent."

"...you could begin to suspect racist motives even if the majority of employees, supporters, and those involved are not necessarily racist..."

Go on.

FWIW, my favorite take on this is James Mickens, CS prof at Harvard, entertainingly makes this point in a way that even geeks can understand. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...