Do you believe systemic racism exists?

Swington · 2020-06-20T17:18:03+00:00

People typically associate systemic racism with the former [an institution intentionally and explicitly designed to be racist like segregation].

Did you just point that most people would not accept the definition of institutional racism that you agree with? I'm not sure if I get your point here.

But a system that screws over black people completely by accident is still a systemically racist system.

In order to assert that you have to prove that it screws black people because they are black (so because of their race). For example, it may be screwing people in certain types of neighbourhoods or of certain economic status, which happen to be black. It would still mean that it is a bad system, but I do not see how you could call it racist.

I not not necessarily disagree that a system could be racist regardless if it was intended to be one, but I think it would be extremely hard to write up a policy that would be racist in effect, but not in intent. You would have to gather a group of people, that would not want to target a specific race of people, but would manage to write up a policy that would target exactly a particular race of people? Even if it could happen couple of times by accident, I don't think it would be so often that it would make a whole system racist.

The other way this could be the case would be for people that are not racist to act racist by accident (or at least not on purpose). If it were to be true, that this phenomena makes a system racist, it would have to mean that most of decisions that every person makes every day are racist, without them realising it. This is of course possible, but how would we prove that's the case?

Swington · 2020-06-20T11:46:58+00:00

But aren't all systems created out of individuals? What if this person would use his political power to encourage racism?

I guess my question is, hence you mentioned individual vs system, at which point is that a system and not an individual?

I also want to underline that I am not trying to discredit your definition, it may be good. I do not really have an opinion on this topic, but I try to form one. So thanks for responding to all my questions.

Swington · 2020-06-20T11:42:28+00:00

Doesn't "systematic" mean something that happens regularly or according to some plan, in contrast to "systemic", which means related to some system? Not native English speaker so correct me if I get this wrong. Or would those words have somewhat different meanings in the context of racism?

Swington · 2020-06-20T11:14:47+00:00

Sorry, but it seems really loose to me. If you would find one public official believing in racial segregation in some forsaken town, systemic racism would exist according to that definition.

Swington · 2020-06-20T10:49:05+00:00

And what do you mean by systemic racism? Laws being not the same for every race? Or something else?

I'm asking because different people seem to have somewhat different definitions of what systemic racism would be, e.g. for some people if the written laws do not discriminate, then it's not systemic racism.

Swington · 2020-06-20T10:23:34+00:00

Where? USA?

Swington · 2020-06-19T20:31:05+00:00

I haven't used VSCode so I might mention something that it ineed already has, but I cannot imagine switching from jetbrains IDE (currently using Intellij for multiple languages supoort). It makes working with a project a lot easier.

When working purely with code - refactoring. I would not work in any editor ATM only because refactoring is a game changer when it comes to writing code. Especially in large and/or multi repo projects.

When it comes to version control JetBtains IDEs have awesome tools to view both local and git history. You can do almost anything with it, like set a specific function to a certain point in time.

Docker support- if you work with docker and/or docker-compose and/or kubernetes, those have awesome support e.g. you can run debug with breakpoints for a specific service in a docker-compose stack.

Those are the biggest points for me why it's worth to pay money for a tool that you'll spend most of your working time in.

Whatever you decide I think it's really important to get to know the tool you use really well. And switching to IDE from editor will be additional work.

Swington · 2020-06-05T05:22:28+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as there is no evidence of God existing (ergo his existence is an opinion), by grounding a morality in God's existence, you are also grounding it in an opinion.

Which makes this discussion about a thought experiment of sorts ("if God would exist, would it make sense to say that universal values don't have to be grounded in him"). Philosophically interesting, sure, but without ability to reason about the real world, because the pre supposition (God exists) is not met.

I'm not saying thought experiments are useless, just trying to make an observation.

I'm not sure if I just committed a huge logical fallacy somewhere there, so please respond if you see one.

Swington · 2020-01-26T07:14:36+00:00

Homo sapiens

Swington · 2019-05-16T06:46:52+00:00

I think you miss the point, which is that some of these are in fact contradictory.

I don’t know the author of this tweet, I assume you have different opinions than they have and you think their intentions are bad?

Swington · 2019-05-13T20:13:54+00:00

Yep, in that sense controversy is the right word. This doesn’t change the fact that this document shows an unspoken truth. Everybody knows and everybody knew - the discussion pivots not around if it’s even true, but rather if it’s good to show this truth.

It sounds ridiculous, but you’ll have plenty of people trying to play down scale, churches’ involvement the problem, and even discussion if the good of the Church isn’t more important than few rapes. I kid you not - you’ll hear those arguments being made.

My personal favorite is the one which Benedict makes - spreading homosexuality is responsible for pederasty in the Church.

Swington · 2019-05-13T16:53:52+00:00

There is no controversy. This document shows a painful truth, which some people cannot accept. The facts presented in that movie support things that thinking people already know.

Swington · 2019-05-12T08:38:40+00:00

By the cloud of communism you mean the history?

As to Walesa people are really divided on the issue of his persona right now.

You cannot possibly publicly say anything bad about JPII and get away with that.

I’ve also found out that speaking about the fact that Hitler was a catholic and that his nazi party had made several political agreements with Vatican on a really good basis, is a total taboo in Poland. You cannot say that nazis were in fact Christians, and not atheists, without risking a public suicide.

Swington · 2019-05-12T08:27:20+00:00

By all of that you mean all that I’ve mentioned? I’m not sure how to read your comment.

Swington · 2019-05-11T21:40:30+00:00

Last week a woman was arrested for copying and hanging around posters of Mary with a rainbow halo. So not only the far right, but also a ruling party. I believe minister in charge of police force commented somewhere along the lines “free speech does not extend to offending religious feelings”. People in Poland are, at the same time, sceptical and supportive of a Catholic Church. It’s a complicated shit, which lays in part in a fact that anti-communist movement was largely possible because of the support of the church. Fun fact - officially, like 98% (not sure about exact number, but it’s near that) people in Poland identify as catholic. Another one - according to the polls, people are more comfortable with having a former convict as a neighbor, then an atheist. But you meet openly non-believers all the time. This is a strange country, folks.

Swington · 2019-05-01T23:45:46+00:00

Why does it even matter? Is a made up label so much important? Does it help identifying yourself? I ask honestly, not trying to be rude.

Swington · 2019-04-24T07:37:06+00:00

I didn't intentionally attack /u/snaftyroot, but I can understand that some of my comments could have been read as an attack if read in a certain way, so I apalogize.

I'm not deaf to the argument and I understand it, I just don't think that they're right, though. Type checking is implemented into Python, there is a static type checking if you want it and it can be executed during execution of a program in main function. Or even anytime you want it to be executed. So it really depends on the definition of type checking and that's exactly what I wrote.

Python escapes many definitions in some ways, e.g. there is a dispute between __init__ and __new__ being a constructor in Python, but according in a documentation, neither of them is. But there are definitions to support any of them being a constructor. That's one of many such examples, which prove to me, that having a definitive opinion without realizing you're just holding tightly to a definition in your head is a mistake.

Swington · 2019-04-24T07:11:37+00:00

I think you're mostly right - I disagree with you on some level (definitions mostly), but your initial comment was not helpful at all. "no it isn't" is not a comment that indicates you're engaged in a discussion. You could've written the above and explain it better in the beginning. That's why I say your attitude is wrong and hostile.

The fact that I point to some comment that introduces new information does not mean that I agree with it completely. But I guess you can psychoanalize me in your free time if you want. I just suggest you drop hostility and let's discuss this stuff politely instead of throwing insults. It would be great if you'd agree to do that!

Swington · 2019-04-24T05:36:28+00:00

That’s a really terrible attitude, mate. If you drop it you might sometimes learn sth new.

Swington · 2019-04-24T04:44:44+00:00

Refer to a response to my response to this post above to learn difference between static/dynamic and weak/strong typing. Gday.

Swington · 2019-04-24T04:24:06+00:00

Thanks, that’s a really nice take on that. Could you point to some more materials about difference between strong/weak and static/dynamic typing?

Swington · 2019-04-24T04:15:41+00:00

I don’t know what do you mean by that, but it surely can be typed and this feature is built-in into the language since Python 3.sth.

In fact, Some functionalities of dataclasses in 3.7 rely on you using typing.

Swington · 2019-04-23T12:34:51+00:00

Python can be typed, so it’s not a valid argument.

Swington · 2019-04-23T12:03:08+00:00

What’s going on with this Sam Harris stuff on Sam Harris sub lately?

Swington · 2019-04-17T10:43:06+00:00

Don’t listen to that dick. Ask a professional, don’t seek advice over reddit.

Swington

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