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I think a distinction needs to be made between social systems that introduce new forms of bias/discrimination and those that perpetuate existing forms. The former category is what I think of when it comes to terms like "bias," "discrimination," and the "X-isms." This is why the term " #AlgorithmicBias " in particular rubs me the wrong way: Pretty much every instance I have read about falls under latter category.
In most cases I can bite my tongue because many of the specific proposals/campaigns are reasonable efforts at addressing inequity, but this sort of "rhetorical confusion" makes it difficult for me personally to fully participate in a lot of social-justice movements today.
I'm willing to call systems that perpetuate existing biases "inequitable" ("inequity") because the idea of equity inherently involves existing social context.
Of course one might ask, "Well, why can't the concepts of bias and discrimination involve social context?" Well, they sure can; in fact, most uses of terms like "systemic [bias/X-ism]" seem to.
There's no point in arguing over definitions and I guess it's "just semantics" to a degree. But again, I think the distinction matters.