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> what an abject failure the so-called War on Drugs has been in the US Depends on what you think it's goals were. If it was to eliminate or significantly reduc
by munificent 5y ago
> what an abject failure the so-called War on Drugs has been in the US
Depends on what you think it's goals were. If it was to eliminate or significantly reduce drug use, yes, total failure.
But if the goal was to continue to limit the power of African-Americans and other minorities, and transfer a ton of tax-payer dollars to the private prison industrial complex, it's been a wild success.
- batushka3 5y agoNothing limited more African-Americans than normalisation of ghetto culture. This redneck inspired social behavior ruined lives of millions by making not cool to learn well at school, adopt nice public manners and perpetuate the myth that society owns you.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Nothing limited more African-Americans than Centuries of chattel slavery, a century of overt de jure discrimination and segregation after slavery, and continued institutional discrimination by policies that do not correct for but instead perpetuate the effects of the earlier overt discrimination. One (but not the most significant) direct effect of which was the alienation of the African-American community from institutions and the normalization of a culture of distrust of institutions, including the law,aw enforcement, schools, health systems, etc. (Some aspects of which are arbitrarily labelled “ghetto culture”.)