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by ceejayoz 1874 days ago
> This is not systemic racism, this is recognising patterns, this is an explicit bias.

An explicit bias, held by agents of the state, affecting their behavior towards the citizenry with no regard to individual innocence. Congrats, you've demonstrated systemic racism.

> I can't find a single law discriminating on people's skin color: that's why I think there is no systemic racism.

Kristallnacht wasn't legally authorized, either, but it'd be an odd claim that it didn't reflect systemic anti-Jewish bias in Nazi Germany.