Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Why This Power Outage Spells Crisis For American Energy" video.

Oh do me a favour. Maybe an alternate explanation is that the load was shed from the area with the highest usage; ie, the city centre. Or maybe that was the defective area, or the area easiest to isolate. Ascribing racism to EVERYTHING is precisely what alienates you from moderates. When EVERYTHING is racist, nothing is.
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@WhatSoEverThingsAreLovely This is just one issue of the dozens of unrelated issues where Wiggins has injected race into the discussion. He's like many black activists who interprets every problem in America through the lens of being a victim of racism. As Freud once said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," and in this case, maybe a power outage was NOT done to target a racial demographic. If he's certain otherwise, he needs to show his evidence or shut up.
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@WhatSoEverThingsAreLovely I have NO problem discussing racism, but injecting it into every situation, simply dilutes the impact where it IS a factor. Its like metoo. That movement did more to harm female sexual assault than if it had never existed. The fact that you have come out so strongly on an issue of pedentary, suggests to me that you are another person who thinks everything should be seen as a race issue. This conversation is over.
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@Jake-xe1wu Systemic racism isn't a "point" as in, an intended goal. It's when the policies of a system are more prejuducial to a particular race than another. Instituting a voter ID law that reduces the black vote due to their inability to afford the ID, or travel to vote need not necessarily be systemically racist, even though black people could suffer worse as a result. It's not possible IMO, to be accidentally racist. Racism requires a set of beliefs that inform actions such as police overestimating black youth age, or courts assuming that blacks are more threatening than whites, or lenders assuming blacks are less capable of repaying loans.
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@Jake-xe1wu Fascinating convo Jake, and I think it highlights the challenges in precisely defining "systemic racism" in the first place. The police and judiciary are racist because of inherrent biases. Loans may be racist for the same reason. Clearly not lending because a person cannot afford it due to systemic racism, is NOT in itself systemically racist, although the social events that led to lowered incomes IS. It's a complicated one to unravel.
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