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>A law can be "not racist", but still be crafted with certain intentions in mind; it's easy to exploit certain correlations to achieve a certain end result. Co
by ta2164 5y ago
>A law can be "not racist", but still be crafted with certain intentions in mind; it's easy to exploit certain correlations to achieve a certain end result.
Correlation does not imply causation.
>But if you want to exclude certain people from your neighborhood, and those people happen to often be from a certain culture/socioeconomic class…
No doubt, no one wants to live around low class riff raff. That's not race specific, and so, is by definition not racist.
>It's also worth noting that the same laws were applied to Asians - exclusionary zoning and housing policies led to the consolidation of populations within certain neighborhoods, like San Francisco's Chinatown
Now you're straw manning hard. No one is making the claim that laws of the past weren't racist. Now, they're not, and so Asians, Indians, Africans (as in recent African immigrants) all flood to the suburbs because suburbs are decidedly not racist, and are free of the riff raff.
>It wasn't always the case that most Asians could (whether financially or politically) move to the suburbs.
Same for whites. Many/most were locked away in perpetual poverty in rural areas.
- dillondoyle 5y agoYou don't think we have laws that are currently racist?
- ta2164 5y agoIf there are so many racist laws in systemically racist USA, you should have no issues pointing out some laws that are racist, no?
- dillondoyle 5y agoMarijuana is in the news right now as just a mega obvious example
- ta2164 5y agoSo you have nothing. "Marijuana" is not a law. Please point to a specific law that is racist, please link to the actual statutes/text.
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- dillondoyle 5y agoFederal marijuana prohibition and the War on Drugs (yes including laws) is rooted in racial bias. There are a HUGE amount of sources and you aren't acting in good faith so this is pointless. Some links below. You might argue that the context around why these laws, for instance why there are specifically sentencing disparities written into law, doesn't matter because the plain text doesn't say black people shall have a 2x longer sentence. That's ignorant IMHO. Even so, racist laws were specifically written in plain text IN OUR CONSTITUTION spelling out black worth as only 3/5ths of white. Nixon's advisor has a 'great' quote plainly laying out the motivation and showing why context and the actual affects of these laws are racist. you're being purposefully being flippant with a throwaway account so I'm not going to continue responding but go ahead and downvote again. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=marijuana+racial+bias+us&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=marijuana+racial+bias+u... https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/06/23/marijuanas-racist-history-shows-the-need-for-comprehensive-drug-reform/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/06/23/mariju... https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-shocking-and-sickening-story-behind-nixons-war-on-drugs-that-targeted-blacks-and-anti-war-activists/ https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-shocking-and-sickening-st... https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/racial-disparity-crack-cocaine-sentencing https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/racial-d... https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/sentencing-reform/war-marijuana-black-and-white https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/sentencing-reform/...
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