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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldHuh
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    24 hours ago

    Colloquially, racism means prejudice based on the perception of someone’s “race” (ie: ancestry, physical characteristics such as skin tone).

    That covers things like assuming a black man knows about gangs and rap based only on their skin color.

    There’s also the institutional level where individuals might not really think or feel anything about race, but it still is a factor. Stuff like closing polling places in predominantly black neighborhoods, or individual police officers who are given a quota and only assigned to black neighborhoods. Housing in the US has a long history intersecting with the idea of race. “The Color of Law” was a pretty good read on it.

    Wikipedia puts it nicely:

    Racism can also be said to describe a condition in society in which a dominant racial group benefits from the oppression of others, whether that group wants such benefits or not.





  • This is a bit of a self reinforcing problem. It’s not magic that makes hardware work on windows. It works better on windows because people put time into making it work on windows. They didn’t do the same for Linux because there’s fewer users there.

    I’m sure you can imagine the scene that’s like

    Eng: “I don’t know if it’ll work on Linux. I want some more time to test it”

    Boss: “how many users we have on Linux?”

    Eng: “a few hundred”

    Boss: “yeah no, just ship it as is”

    But the good news is as more people use Linux, that conversation changes.