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The response I see most often to this question - and one that is clearly inaccurate - is that police don't target people for their politics or their culture. T
by jMyles 11y ago
The response I see most often to this question - and one that is clearly inaccurate - is that police don't target people for their politics or their culture.
To my way of thinking, the entire concept of drug prohibition is an attack on a particular culture - a particular diet - which is strongly associated with a particular array of politics.
I think it's reasonable to assess that the US today is a police state.
- wavefunction 11y agoThe "Occupy" movement was targeted by police, as one example of a non-violent political group targeted by the police.* I agree that the US is a police state. *And by targeted I mean we had undercover police officer agent-provocateurs trying to encourage our local Occupy group to engage in serious crimes and provided materials for those crimes.
- Someone 11y ago"The response I see most often to this question - and one that is clearly inaccurate - is that police don't target people for their politics or their culture." Also, if you acknowledge that ethnic groups can have separate cultures (not a bold claim, IMO) and look at the ethnic distribution of US citizens accidentally (giving them the benefit of the doubt) killed by the police I think that claim is hard to defend.