“I would never, ever say that I regret supporting the first Black woman vice president, ever. But the disappointment is real,” said one self-described former member of the #KHive, who requested to speak anonymously so as not to alienate themselves from friends made through the movement. “I was obsessed with the idea of this person who could undo the systemic, the systematic racism and sexism and heterosexism in government with one fell swoop, and now I’m thinking to myself, did I just make up a person in my head who could do those things?”
When you realize that racism, sexism etc. are more of a systemic than an individual issue, how do you not arrive at the obvious conclusion that they need systemic rather than individual fixes?
I'm convinced that telling people that racism/sexism is systemic is just something most liberals have just learned to say, it doesnt connect to any of their other beliefs.
Or they believe that systemic means "lots and lots of individuals do it"
thats like, half of stuff liberals say. American politics, outside of tiny communist bubbles, is pure word salad.
It's a problem of the system in red states that could be cured if people would only :vote: harder.
Riffing on this further, they think if they get enough individuals to change, that will make the system change. It's all individual acts to them, all they want down
Well, that is literally what "systemic" means. That's why they don't say "systematic".
Systemic means we can't fix it so it's best to just do symbolic acts