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Opioid addicts tend to be white, so they seem to be getting more sympathy and less blame in the memeosphere than black drug addicts and welfare dependents did i
by azernik 9y ago
Opioid addicts tend to be white, so they seem to be getting more sympathy and less blame in the memeosphere than black drug addicts and welfare dependents did in the 80s.
- Clubber 9y agoYa but just barely. Based on deaths, blacks make up about 10% while the black population is 12%. http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-dea... The biggest problem with the 80s is the same problem we have now, Americans are easily scared shitless about every damn thing and the news just fuels it. In the 80's it was crack epidemic, devil worship and super predators. In the 90s, it was ecstasy and raves. In the 2000s it was meth, terrorism and trailer parks. Today it's opioids and ISIS. As a country, we do irrational things because we always have an irrational fear. Who plants that fear? News. Did you know we turned away boatloads of Jews during the holocaust because we were afraid German spies would be on the ships? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/jewish-refugees-in-the-us/514742/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/jewish-... Remember Ebola? Zika? Anthrax? That scared the shit out of everyone and it ended up being a whole lot of not much. When FDR said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he knew how afraid Americans are.