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The honest answer is that it gives conservatives the ability to be racist and imprison minorities for minor offenses.

by TrashQuestion 8y ago

Fjolsvith 8y ago
That's just your honest opinion...
- TrashQuestion 8y ago
  "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." — John D. Ehrlichman, former Nixon aide, interview with Dan Baum Yup; thats just my opinion.... it also happens to be factual history. Can't HN be less sterile and accept the facts of history and reality; we don't exist in a vacuum.
dang 8y ago
Taking HN threads into flamewar is not allowed here. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't. The effects on the community are destructive and basically always the same. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- King-Aaron 8y ago
  It should be noted that the above comment is likely far less trying to incite a flame war, and more likely referencing the alleged reasoning for the 'war on drugs' was to directly marginalise African Americans and 'hippies'. "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." — John D. Ehrlichman, former Nixon aide, interview with Dan Baum
  - TrashQuestion 8y ago
    This is what i was going for, i should have cited my source

The honest answer is that it gives conservatives the ability to be racist and imprison minorities for minor offenses.

Fjolsvith 8y ago

That's just your honest opinion...

TrashQuestion 8y ago
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." — John D. Ehrlichman, former Nixon aide, interview with Dan Baum Yup; thats just my opinion.... it also happens to be factual history. Can't HN be less sterile and accept the facts of history and reality; we don't exist in a vacuum.

dang 8y ago

Taking HN threads into flamewar is not allowed here. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't. The effects on the community are destructive and basically always the same. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

King-Aaron 8y ago
It should be noted that the above comment is likely far less trying to incite a flame war, and more likely referencing the alleged reasoning for the 'war on drugs' was to directly marginalise African Americans and 'hippies'. "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." — John D. Ehrlichman, former Nixon aide, interview with Dan Baum
- TrashQuestion 8y ago
  This is what i was going for, i should have cited my source