WHITE CHRISTIAN BIAS, cultural bias perpetrated and perpetuated by white Christians against non Christians and people of color, is intrinsic, built into American culture, including the legal, political, and economic systems. America is the land of opportunity and inequality, opportunity for white Christians especially, inequality for everyone, including white Christians. All social research shows this. In America, to get ahead, you want to be a white christian, preferably heterosexual.The Islamic terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 were successfully prosecuted on charges of sedition. Extreme right wing christian hate groups have tended to successfully evade prosecution and conviction for various provable crimes. the pattern is constant; people of color and non Christian faiths do not do as well in the legal system, or economically, and the deciding factor is not talent; its prejudice. Perhaps that will someday change, but for now there is no sign that it is, despite our often proclaimed belief that it should and must. It has been noted that had the U.S. Capitol building been attacked by Black Lives Matter African-Americans, the outcome would have been much different, much harsher. To point this out is not injecting needless racism into the situation; it is s merely a matter of fact, and every American knows it. Conservatives are quick to accuse progressives of injecting racism into the discussion where none is needed, and of therefore being racists. Like most right wind arguments, this is a blatant lie. Racism exists in America, has always existed, a priori. to simply point out the problem and to speculate on probable outcomes based on racial factors is not inventing racism; it is describing it and trying to find ways of dealing with it. During the all white insurrection as the Capitol, the rioters and looters were mostly free to come and go, without resistance. Police responses to the Black Lives Matter protesters was harsh whether or not looting, burning, and rioting was involved, as it was sometimes, and sometimes not. On those occasions in which the BLM protesters were nearly all white, as they often were, police response was conspicuously far more passive. Although these examples do not unto themselves prove bias or racism, an examination of police arrests and legal outcomes based on racial differences, analyzing thousands of cases, clearly proves the point. The same is true of religious differences, and the culturally preferred religion. Atheists are like men and slender people compared to women and obese people; they get the better treatment. All men and women may be created equal in the eyes of God, but certainly not in the eyes of humanity, at least, not yet.
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