The cackling villain style of racism is mostly dying with Lee Atwater's generation. The human systems they installed perpetuate it with such subtlety that peopl

The cackling villain style of racism is mostly dying with Lee Atwater's generation. The human systems they installed perpetuate it with such subtlety that people can train an algorithm nearly 100% on white faces and not even realize it or think about why those are the most available faces to them. And when they realize it, it's so hard to fix. This is why the academic definition of racism focuses on systems and the ways people unwittingly perpetuate it rather than trying to assign individual blame. That definition clashes with the definition most people think of where there's someone doing it on purpose.