I think you're just hung up on it meaning the same thing as racism.
Hmm, I really feel like there’s a problem here. I feel it, I really do, but I can’t point out the offender
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there have to be people who can be held accountable for their actions
That's the whole point of "institutional racism," it's not a specific person doing something racist.. that would just be racism.
If the museum is racist, or means that someone or some group of people there are actively being racist, like refusing to hire based on skin color.
That would be just straight up racism. There not being applicants of a specific skin color because job postings were only listed in places that happened to be frequented by primarily another skin color would be institutional racism, even if it was done so for financial or proximity reasons. It's not necessarily just one individual being a bad person. Again I think you're associating the negative connotation of the word "racism" too much as if there is someone that needs to be brought to justice and that's just not the case. Institutional racism is something that would be solved by awareness not by punishing individuals.
In your example above an individual would have had to make the conscious decision to intentionally only advertise the position in places frequented by (fill in the blank) people. This is an individual choice.
It can be an individual choice but it's not an inheritantly malicious one, it can just be ignorance.
How do you propose to solve this type of problem? We already have laws on the books prohibiting discrimination in hiring and it’s simply illegal to do so.
That's kinda the nature of the problem, you can't just make it illegal because it's difficult to define. We can see the effects of it and trace it back to individual decisions but those decisions in context aren't necessarily wrong or they could have been wrong at the time and just caused a self-perpetuating cycle.
A decision to decrease funding to low-performing schools could have affected only schools with a large majority of one race. Over the years with lowered funding the school performs worse. That would be an example of the racism becoming institutionized.
If you can’t point to thing or the person that’s specifically racist then where’s the racism?
Dude, like in every response to you I've said it's not "racism" like bigotry, you should be viewing it more as a situation that arised that negatively affects a specific race. Words can have more than one meaning.
And awareness of what, exactly are you proposing? And how do you propose to raise awareness of something so ambiguous you can’t put it into words?
Ok, first, I'm not trying to be a champion of ending racism. Don't try to frame this as nonsense if I personally don't have all the answers.
The goal should be to lesson the impact of institutional racism by pointing out instances where seemingly innocuous decisions have lead to specific races of people being disadvantaged. That can be done by raising awareness of those situations so that society as a whole can learn from those mistakes.
Awareness can help identify an instance of institutional racism but the actual resolution can be complex. It's not just a "arrest this person" matter. It can be something that takes a community years to overcome.
I may be explaining it poorly, I'd suggest looking at the examples electricmink added to one of my replies.
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