Totally serious question

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11. It originated in legal circles and has been around for several decades.

It's just come to the fore generally in the last few months. One of the authors, Kimberlé Crenshaw, a legal scholar and professor, describes it as such, and I'm paraphrasing: Since 1619 when enslaved humans were first brought here, on through to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War, the 14th Amendment, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow years and the Civil Rights struggles of the 50s and 60s, there have been legal edifices that have been constructed and operated along side all these historical developments and acted as faciliating conduits instead of acting sufficiently to push back against the inhuman illegality of the many racist obstacles and laws thrown up to continue the oppression of Black people and other POCs to the present.

In other words, the racism has been codified and the law has been used to make it happen more effectively than the other way around. Which is why racism is such a systemic reality to this very day.

Wingers of course are calling it itself racism, Marxism, a movement to put whites in concentration camps...the whole enchilada to rile up white people to be against evidence of systemic racism.

It's the latest bogeyman to scare white voters. Socialism, BLM, antifa and defund the police are sidelined for now but will be bought back when needed.