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You. Are so. White. "Nobody really expects the cops to sweep the dorms at NYU for marijuana, even though this would probably turn up a ton of arrests." Switch

You. Are so. White. "Nobody really expects the cops to sweep the dorms at NYU for marijuana, even though this would probably turn up a ton of arrests." Switch out "NYU" with "ghetto" and your statement is instantly absurd. These laws you're sleaking of are intended to be enforced, selectively. This is HN, we all love statistics. What is the probability that a person standing trial for possession marijuana who was apprehended in their home and where the primary reason provided in seeking the exercised warrant or reasoning provided explaining exigent circumstances was suspicion of possession or use of marijuana and the person on trial is white? Black? You can't be evidence based when it suits your world view, but not when it doesn't. The term for that is confirmation bias.

JustUhThought 10y ago
Full disclosure. I'm a middle aged, middle income, college educated, male, and am white.
- MajorLOL 10y ago
  Disgusting.
eli_gottlieb 10y ago
The first sentence of their post was: The thing that gets missed is that a ton of laws on the books are written with the expectation that they will not be applied evenly. You should read before jumping down someone's throat.
- JustUhThought 10y ago
  I can't edit on this device. So, yeah, you're right. Change what I said to, "I totally agree..." And everything else is pretty much still good to go. Sorry. I'm pretty opinionated on this topic. As someone with dual degrees in political science and economics, followed by 15 years of all this great country has to offer the white male, and then living in Baltimore during the uprising, listening to my neighbors, marching with fellow Baltimoreans (?), almost getting arrested for holding a sign while on a public sidewalk during a march, staring down rows of cops 10 deep, having motorcycle cops rev their engines with protestors just feet on front of them laid out on the ground, having the National Guard lock down our city for a week, having government sigint airplanes flying overhead, and then riding my bicycle home, to a safe, warm meal and going to my good paying job with benefits the next day, while some black kid follows his mother's advice and walks into a police station on his own volition to surrender to the ppolice for vandalizing a cop car and then having his bail set higher than what was set for the police officers who where arraigned for manslaughter. But yeah, i blew it all out proportion in that comment.

JustUhThought 10y ago

Full disclosure. I'm a middle aged, middle income, college educated, male, and am white.

MajorLOL 10y ago
Disgusting.

eli_gottlieb 10y ago

The first sentence of their post was: The thing that gets missed is that a ton of laws on the books are written with the expectation that they will not be applied evenly. You should read before jumping down someone's throat.

JustUhThought 10y ago
I can't edit on this device. So, yeah, you're right. Change what I said to, "I totally agree..." And everything else is pretty much still good to go. Sorry. I'm pretty opinionated on this topic. As someone with dual degrees in political science and economics, followed by 15 years of all this great country has to offer the white male, and then living in Baltimore during the uprising, listening to my neighbors, marching with fellow Baltimoreans (?), almost getting arrested for holding a sign while on a public sidewalk during a march, staring down rows of cops 10 deep, having motorcycle cops rev their engines with protestors just feet on front of them laid out on the ground, having the National Guard lock down our city for a week, having government sigint airplanes flying overhead, and then riding my bicycle home, to a safe, warm meal and going to my good paying job with benefits the next day, while some black kid follows his mother's advice and walks into a police station on his own volition to surrender to the ppolice for vandalizing a cop car and then having his bail set higher than what was set for the police officers who where arraigned for manslaughter. But yeah, i blew it all out proportion in that comment.