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And? If Italians are much more likely to be arrested for illegal bookmaking & racketeering due to targeted efforts to take them down, does that mean it's a gre
by fiatmoney 11y ago
And? If Italians are much more likely to be arrested for illegal bookmaking & racketeering due to targeted efforts to take them down, does that mean it's a great idea to let Fat Tony with a felony conviction, a ball-peen hammer and a shitload of shady friends he has unclear relationships with open a casino?
- RodericDay 11y agoIt's a better idea than letting equally-as-dirty-but-white-and-uncaught Joe Trustfund take over in his absence. The former at least equalizes the second-order race issue, whereas yours naively compounds it.
- kennywinker 11y agoA teenager with a weed possession conviction is not a mobster.
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- jccc 11y agoYour analogy requires: A. the person to have convictions for dealing, not just possession, and B. mobster-era Italians to be just about as likely to engage in illegal bookmaking and racketeering as the general population, and C. a history of hundreds of years of imposing underclass status on Italians (like that imposed on African Americans), with modern-day policing skewed very heavily against them.