Comment by throwaway894345

> Definitionally, "a system that gives white people a structural advantage based on what color they were born" is a system of white supremacy

Yes, but that's not our system. Our system doesn't give structural advantages based on race (at least we can hardly measure the extent of any such advantages). It does give structural advantages based on class (and many other variables) which correlates with race; however, correlation and causation are famously different. We don't have a white supremacist system or any kind of racist system, although some are advocating for a racist system so that we can eliminate disparities.

> There's what the system could do (in another historical timeline) vs. what it is doing.

No one is suggesting an alternate historical timeline; I'm arguing that our system today isn't racist, but that it's very nearly colorblind; however, disparities can result in a perfectly colorblind system because the initial racial distributions were not uniform.

EDIT: Downvoters, do you believe correlation and causation are the same thing in general or only when applied to racial disparities?