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Turnabout 4

Badtux points out that it’s a cultural thing.

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  1. GS/DD

    January 9, 2017 at 2:39 pm

    I’m not seeing how this misery justifies the contempt or the kind of lesson the blogger or you seem to believe it does.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wilkes-barre-faces-heroin-scourge-turning-it-most-unhappy-place-n699541

     
  2. Badtux

    January 10, 2017 at 1:24 am

    The point was that the way the heroin epidemic is being treated by law enforcement and the media is *way* different from the way the crack epidemic was treated by law enforcement and the media. Now, what’s the difference between the two? Hint: One group is black, one group is white. I was not so much proposing that the heroin epidemic be treated the same way the crack epidemic was (with demonization of white people, stop-and-frisk checkpoints in white neighborhoods, anti-fraternization “loitering” laws to apply whenever more than 2 white people gather in any given location, etc.), as I was proposing that drug use in the black community be treated with the same sensitivity and kindness as drug use in the white community.

    In other words, I was pointing out a racist double standard.

     
  3. Frank

    January 10, 2017 at 10:16 am

    I thought it a marvelous bit of snark that highlighted how quickly we put persons in boxes because of race, sex, etc.

    As much as I try to stop myself from doing so, I still find myself sometimes so doing.

     
  4. GS/DD

    January 11, 2017 at 5:13 pm

    Your point, one obscured by your ability to convey it.