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• DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Okay, I’ll bite: Racial discrimination.

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  • rammer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Racial discrimination is fundamentally created by the innate fear of the Other. But it is supercharged by capitalism. Slave trade was created to create cheap expendable labor force to drive profits. When it was ended segregation and other discriminatory practices were instituted to protect the owners of businesses. These practices were systemic and we are still seeing their results.

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I get the feeling that you’re cheating a little with this one. I mentioned it, because it exists in every economic system. “Supercharged by capitalism” is a cop out.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ever seen the US prison system? American prisons are for-profit and i think they literally qualify as slave labour, and go figure they’d prefer to enslave non-white people.

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      America didn’t invent racial discrimination.

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