Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
by mythrwy on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:41PM
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"The war on drugs started for a single function"
Really? China's banning of Opium was because of racism?
There were real concerns about drugs (and alcohol see: prohibition). That is the main reason it happened.
Disenfranchising minorities and hippies was likely only a side benefit for unscrupulous people.
Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
by imgabe on Saturday November 07, 2020 @09:28PM
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This may be US-centric but when people talk about The War on Drugs™ they mean specifically the US campaign against drugs and the ensuing police-state. Yes, other countries at other times have also made drugs illegal, but the war on drugs refers to the US policy specifically.
Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
by mythrwy on Saturday November 07, 2020 @10:46PM
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Right I got that. My point is many nations ban drugs. In fact they pretty much all do at some level.
Meaning there are other reasons besides racism and thus that is likely not the primary reason like this silly "Nixon" comment I see on every post about drugs.
Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
by watwut on Sunday November 08, 2020 @08:33AM
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"War on drugs" does not refers merely at making drugs illegal. It literally refers to Nixon specific set of priorities and policies and rhetorics around them.
Anyway, China did not had the same punishment disparity between crack and cocaine US had.
Planned Parenthood also helps poor people have access to family planning. Sanger started it with exactly that purpose in mind. That now it helps educated people have access to family planning also is a nice expansion of its original purpose. That Sanger's purpose in encouraging family planning in the poor was to eradicate them is as relevant as Nixon's love for Notre Dame football.
> Things are way more complex than just pointing at simplified versions of history and banging on the race drum.
You haven't given any evidence of that. You're encouraging to ignore our lying eyes and our entire history and replace them with your bitterness about the discussion of race.