> Note that neither of your points are necessarily responsive to or mutually exclusive with gp's. I think you're ignoring the more serious point, though. GP l

> Note that neither of your points are necessarily responsive to or mutually exclusive with gp's. I think you're ignoring the more serious point, though. GP literally advised disadvantaged people to more judiciously follow the stupid laws that were designed in the first place to disadvantage them. > But your appeal to the youth who might be reading this was just over the top. Listen, I usually find any sort of "protect the children" narrative nauseating. But in the specific case of racism, I do think it's reckless to spout this stuff on this forum. You and I have perhaps read The New Jim Crow or exposed ourselves to the statistics of the drug war, but a lot of people (sure, young and old) come here from other fora where they're more likely to have followed the breadcrumbs of technological development and might need a little more help before being able to pick apart these basic, bedrock examples of institutional discrimination.