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The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
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originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Moving on, when you start locking people up for doing drugs, and they are inevitably socialized into criminality, eventually they get out and then socialize those around them.
Socialization... is a term used by sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and educationalists to refer to the lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs, values and ideologies, providing an individual with the skills and habits necessary for participating within their own society. Socialization is thus "the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained".
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Then the Controlled Music Model (MTV, the radio stations, the "Single Release Model" the industry uses to control who gets on the radio/MTV) targets them with Bling Bling Culture, which they can generally only get thru a life of crime...
Therefore, the SJW's ought to be trashing the bling bling musicians for being involved in perpetuating this cycle of syndemic repression.
So what we have is a positive-feedback-loop ensuring the criminal culture will only rise creating more prisoners, to create more criminals, to create more prisoners, ad infinitum. It just makes this all so tragic that the post-Nixon era prison population rates are because it's a CRIME to use "drugs" (of the non-pharmaceutical varieties). Were it not for this, most of the sizzle behind the SJW humus would cease to exist, so no wonder they don't kick & thrash & chew & cut to dismantle it.
So as long as everybody keeps finger pointing and blaming other groups / individuals we'll all just keep eating our tails in this tangled mess. It's time for REAL change, folks!
originally posted by: tigertatzen
I'm struggling to understand how drugs and McDonald's could possibly be relevant to anything
How Cigarettes Tax the Poor
In the United States, and nearly every other country, smoking is more common among the less wealthy and less educated. In the United States, 26.3% of people in poverty smoke compared to 15.2% for the rest of the population. ...
In recent years, cigarette taxes have become the chief public policy instrument in the fight against smoking. ...
Proponents of cigarette taxes argue that these taxes both get people to stop smoking and bring in public revenue. But some economists believe that recent hikes have had little impact on consumption. They suggest that the majority of people who were going to stop because of price hikes might have already done so. Still, state and federal governments persist in raising the level of taxes -- generating ever more revenue from the poor. ...
Being poor also makes it more difficult to quit smoking. A 2012 study analyzed outcomes for smokers who wanted to quit and were provided cognitive behavioral therapy and nicotine patches. The researchers estimated that study subjects from the highest socio-economic class were over two times more likely to have quit after six months than those from a low-income background. They ascribe this discrepancy to the the stress and exposure to other smokers that comes with poverty.
originally posted by: everyone
originally posted by: odzeandennz
i didnt realize the blacks were in peril
No need for a BLM then.
originally posted by: everyone
No need for a BLM then.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
originally posted by: everyone
No need for a BLM then.
If they're just out for vengeance, which them not focusing on the War On Drugs would suggest, then they should heed this: If you're out for revenge, dig 2 graves (one for them and one for yourself).
originally posted by: tigertatzen
a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
So...."the "Blacks" need to be saved from "the war on drugs"...why again? Why is this "war" undermining "the Blacks"? Your OP is kind of all over the place...I'm struggling to understand how drugs and McDonald's could possibly be relevant to anything that would require anyone to be saved by anyone.
Are you implying that "the Blacks" are somehow intellectually incapable of making informed choices and decisions and therefore we have to do it for them? Because it sounds very much like that is what you are saying here.