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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by sremani on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:57PM (#15242588)
I do not recollect with precision, but there is an article posted on HN few years ago, showing the 80s archives of New York Times, in it NYT was squarely arguing for harsher sentencing and so were African American civic leaders.

May be there is racism that is institutional, but the point is most people even those who are against harsher sentences today thought it was a remedy. We will be failing ourselves if we cannot examine that fact and simply hitch and re-assign every "fucked up" decision to racism.

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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by rexpop on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:49PM (#15243046)
> May be there is racism that is institutional, but the point is most people even those who are against harsher sentences today thought it was a remedy.

That's exactly the irony of institutional racism: it's so rarely _consciously_ racist. It is often "colorblind".

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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by glibgil on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:08PM (#15242706)
> May be there is racism that is institutional, but the point is most people even those who are against harsher sentences today thought it was a remedy

I didn't. I thought it was racist back then. Many black leaders thought it was racist back then too

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