Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris...
by dizzystar on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:45PM
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You're suburban. Growing up poor and in a requisite poor area, plenty of your white friends will end up in prison and jail. A lot of mine did.
Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris...
by contourtrails on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:49PM
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I'm with you, prohibition of weed is very backwards. But that's hardly slavery.
Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris...
by jMyles on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:07PM
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Drug prohibition is indeed slavery - in the case of the text of the 13th amendment, literally so.
Moving the bar from "you're enslaved based on your color" to, "you're enslaved based on your diet" is not much of a move.
> People should not break them if they don't want to be jailed.
I'm white. That means I can smoke as much herb as I want and not even dream of entering the criminal justice system unless I'm extraordinarily unlucky. Moreover, I don't give a flying fuck what some politician in Washington has to say about my diet. I don't base what I put into my body on bad laws.
But if you are black, you have a much more difficult decision to make.
> now they've evolved. Don't judge them today based on the mistakes of the past.
If drug prohibition is the "evolved" form, then we still have a long way to go. That's the point.