[dgb23]

I was thinking in general terms of bias and prejudice. You can’t remove it from existence because those aren’t qualitative terms. A decent person can recognize and actively combat bias, but not erase it. You’re still going to have some form of bias. At least I haven’t met a single persom who does not.

Now you’re talking about discrimination. Those can appear mild and harmless in single instances, but the accumulation is the problem as you said but also what we could call passive ignorance. In my experience people are often not even aware of being discriminatory, some are even well meaning, but are patronizing.

But there is a key difference in a spectrum of bias/prejudice and flat out not reflecting on our behavior.

I realize I‘m discussing semantics here, just wanted to explain how I understand those terms in my response.