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The beginning of drug criminalization in America was directly and overly rooted in racism.

This article is a good introduction to the history of US drug enforcement: https://timeline.com/harry-anslinger-racist-war-on-drugs-pri...




QED, your post, etc.

Racism theory is a Rorschach test.

Suffice it to say, it's really tough to interrogate reality when you have nothing but contrapositive indications and your response is "yes, this only applies to this one instance though".

This is why studying things systemically rather than through a collection of historical anecdotes you've picked up is a vastly superior system for modelling reality. This argumentum ad collection of ad hoc historical anecdotes that reify my pseudoscientific ideas is less interesting intellectually than Horoscopes.

We don't need to discuss this further as it is highly incendiary and you're not allowed to have arguments about topics that make people upset, so any polemicist is basically unchecked.


lol yikes


Isn't a post like this in violation of Hackernews rules?

Not very intellectually curious. Where's my friend?


You didn't engage with my reply, you went off on a weird monologue about why you are skeptical of racism generally..?

"racism is one of the many motives for drug criminalization" is thoroughly documented and not debatable by serious people.


like omg i just can't even




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