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> I don't think urban liberals are the ones clamoring for harsher law enforcement. In the 90s it was urban blacks clamouring for harsher law enforcement, since
by wtbob 10y ago
> I don't think urban liberals are the ones clamoring for harsher law enforcement.
In the 90s it was urban blacks clamouring for harsher law enforcement, since it was their neighbourhoods which were suffering the effects of drug-related violence and other crimes.
Blacks aren't really liberal or leftist on the whole, but they consistently support the left-wing party.
- thesimpsons1022 10y agoblacks are actually surprisingly conservative in a lot of ways. I remember seeing that some protester at a black rights matter rally was also protesting for lgbt rights and was turned against by the reallt anti gay black crowd
- tehwebguy 10y ago> blacks are actually surprisingly conservative in a lot of ways. > I remember [this one anecdote]
- danso 10y agoI think it's more accurate to say that blacks are surprisingly diverse, as they are too often perceived as a hivemind/bloc. This could be said about any group of course, but as an Asian, I would agree that blacks* have it worse in this regard. * even referring to them all as "blacks" blurs the significant difference between African-Americans who trace their heritage to American slavery, and contemporary immigrant/refugee communities from Somalia, etc.
- in_cahoots 10y agoSubstitute whites or men for blacks here, and you'll see the problem in assuming blacks are a monolithic voting block. We saw the same lazy thinking in the (false) claim that blacks made Prop 8 fail in CA.