> The USSR was never institutionally racist.
I think you are misusing “institutionally” and mean something more like “openly” or “explicitly”, because everything you cite in support of this describes rather than refutes institutional racism.
I think you are misusing “institutionally” and mean something more like “openly” or “explicitly”, because everything you cite in support of this describes rather than refutes institutional racism.
Please expand on this.
The justifications upthread are a mix of explaining deliberate bias as not based on animus and explaining biased effects as not being deliberate bias; neither refutes institutional racism.
> institutionally targeted programs were to enforce political control and break nationalistic tendencies of ethnic groups.
If that's not "institutional racism", I don't know what is.
This literally means stop nationalist secession movements. Literally no country on earth basically lets their citizens secede dude. Russians were ALSO the target of such programs.
It's like saying state atheism is uniquely Islamophobic or uniquely anti christian or uniquely antisemitic.
I'm not saying it's not repression. It totally is, but it's not racist.