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I don't think status has anything to do with their comment. What made you bring it up?

ipsin 5y ago
"drug dealer" ... "bottom of the barrel"... The obvious implication is that drug dealers are low-status individuals who deserve this kind of treatment.
- IshKebab 5y ago
  They never said that she was bottom of the barrel.
- xd 5y ago
  What's your experience of drug dealers? I'm really curious where this new age anti police pro drug peddler mentality is coming from because I've had multiple friends over my 40 years lost to drugs so what the fuck is the defence of these people about? Many people that can be sold drugs are victims.. so yeah these drug dealer cretins are low status.
  - bigth 5y ago
    It's the result of the influx of young western kids smoking weed. They think they will go to prison for 800 years if they are caught, so they become anti police to feel better about their bad habits.
    - vimacs2 5y ago
      Or it could because there is increased awareness of the originally racist and authoritarian motives for modern drug laws? I'm not of the mind that weed cannot and does not frequently become a bad habit but weed abuse is far less problematic than alcohol abuse yet the former is treated as a criminal affair. Black people are the most consistently anti-police demographic so I don't know where you're getting the idea that it's "young western kids" that are propagating the anti-police rhetoric.
ipaddr 5y ago
The quote: "scraping the bottom of the barrel" To label a group of people lower than the lowest implies these people belong to a lower class. class = status
- generalizations 5y ago
  Doesn't look to me like the 'bottom of the barrel' comment was applied to the social status of the woman. Looked more like parent was making the point that it's a stretch to call the drug dealer the victim...that the reporter must be scraping the 'bottom of the barrel' of their story ideas. You're going to have to be a lot more specific. What makes you think 'bottom of the barrel' was referring to the social status of the woman?
- Google234 5y ago
  Criminals are definitely belong in a lower status category.

"drug dealer" ... "bottom of the barrel"... The obvious implication is that drug dealers are low-status individuals who deserve this kind of treatment.

IshKebab 5y ago
They never said that she was bottom of the barrel.
xd 5y ago
What's your experience of drug dealers? I'm really curious where this new age anti police pro drug peddler mentality is coming from because I've had multiple friends over my 40 years lost to drugs so what the fuck is the defence of these people about? Many people that can be sold drugs are victims.. so yeah these drug dealer cretins are low status.
- bigth 5y ago
  It's the result of the influx of young western kids smoking weed. They think they will go to prison for 800 years if they are caught, so they become anti police to feel better about their bad habits.
  - vimacs2 5y ago
    Or it could because there is increased awareness of the originally racist and authoritarian motives for modern drug laws? I'm not of the mind that weed cannot and does not frequently become a bad habit but weed abuse is far less problematic than alcohol abuse yet the former is treated as a criminal affair. Black people are the most consistently anti-police demographic so I don't know where you're getting the idea that it's "young western kids" that are propagating the anti-police rhetoric.

ipaddr 5y ago

The quote: "scraping the bottom of the barrel" To label a group of people lower than the lowest implies these people belong to a lower class. class = status

generalizations 5y ago
Doesn't look to me like the 'bottom of the barrel' comment was applied to the social status of the woman. Looked more like parent was making the point that it's a stretch to call the drug dealer the victim...that the reporter must be scraping the 'bottom of the barrel' of their story ideas. You're going to have to be a lot more specific. What makes you think 'bottom of the barrel' was referring to the social status of the woman?
Google234 5y ago
Criminals are definitely belong in a lower status category.