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>The motivation for fictitious wars against bogeymen is to empower and bankroll law enforcement while diminishing the civil rights of citizens. Thank you. This
by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
>The motivation for fictitious wars against bogeymen is to empower and bankroll law enforcement while diminishing the civil rights of citizens.
Thank you. This trend where people recast everything in the 20th century to be racially motivated (but can't provide any proof, because it's like complicated) is exhausting.
- pmachinery 6y agoJust for the record, I wasn't trying to deny the racial element in drug 'warfare', which certainly exists (how deliberately is another matter). And when people 'recast' things it's sometimes because new evidence emerges, or becomes more well known. An example of that is in these comments, the interview by former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman made only in 1994, but probably still not that well known until this article from 2016: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/ https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/