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Consider a hypothetical police officer who is against "leftists" (the police officer's definition is all that matters, not ours). Right now, said police office
by braythwayt 9y ago
Consider a hypothetical police officer who is against "leftists" (the police officer's definition is all that matters, not ours).
Right now, said police officer can and does enforce laws disproportionally against Black Americans because to the police officer, they're all leftists.
But if we give the police officer access to all sorts of profiling information about humans, when making a traffic stop, the police officer can be extra-zealous about performing a search if the person is profiled as being a "leftist."
The point is, prosecuting people for their political views has existed for some time, but it didn't scale well. Now it will scale extremely well, up to the point of wearing glasses and tagging people with certain social profiles in real time.