Systemic racism is a big topic, and one I believe most progressives have heard of before. I’m not the first, tenth, or hundredth to explain systemic racism. Which is why it’s baffling that I meet so many people who say “I can’t be racist — I didn’t mean to!”
Helping to explain systemic racism today are My two favourite colonisers, Interstellar and Sparks. A week ago, I published an article about these two, their large network of discord servers, and their rule against speaking Australian languages on an Australia-themed discord server. Today I was informed by a member of My own discord server that these two have seen the article, and they have a defence against it: “I didn’t mean it.” Since My previous article operated on a level of political literacy beyond most racists, let’s revisit the topic at the fundamentals.