It’s fundamentally because we are trying to tackle a systemic issue (a macro level issue) at the micro level (day to day human interaction). Most people are not going to be (or even are) racist/prejudiced to each other in the day to day. Similar to how most Americans won’t ever have someone build our phones and make our clothes for pennies on the dollar if it was up to us, truly. However, systemically, we will still buy all these things, that’s simply how the system is set up.
If you take something like prejudice toward a race with respect to crime, or prejudice toward a gender with respect to competence, these things are happening at a level that require systems-level thinking. If you beef up certain communities with respect to opportunities, or funnel more people toward certain industries much earlier in their life, the outcomes will appear at the macro level. Once that happens, the reduction in those biases will manifest.
But sitting everyone down and saying ‘let’s all sit down and do our own small little part’ will not actually solve anything. But, that is most likely the reason we (humans gonna human) are doing this. It’s a form of procrastination, let’s beat around the bush. Let’s organize our folders and sharpen our pencils, but not study for the test. Let’s buy new gym sneakers and gym outfit, and actually get a new gym membership, but never go to the gym.
Oddly, it’s almost like America only does the algos part of the software interview, but never the System design part. Micro vs Macro.
By saying this, you render everything else you have said here moot. Once you declare systemic racism as an unassailable fact, all of your reasoning is simply affirming the consequent.
It’s entirely possible that racial inequity exists, and that some of it is a consequence of past and present racism, but that this does not mean that the ‘system is racist’ is a meaningful analysis.
If you take something like prejudice toward a race with respect to crime, or prejudice toward a gender with respect to competence, these things are happening at a level that require systems-level thinking. If you beef up certain communities with respect to opportunities, or funnel more people toward certain industries much earlier in their life, the outcomes will appear at the macro level. Once that happens, the reduction in those biases will manifest.
But sitting everyone down and saying ‘let’s all sit down and do our own small little part’ will not actually solve anything. But, that is most likely the reason we (humans gonna human) are doing this. It’s a form of procrastination, let’s beat around the bush. Let’s organize our folders and sharpen our pencils, but not study for the test. Let’s buy new gym sneakers and gym outfit, and actually get a new gym membership, but never go to the gym.
Oddly, it’s almost like America only does the algos part of the software interview, but never the System design part. Micro vs Macro.