I think you’re basically right about this. When I make strident comments about avoiding ex-cons I’m of course talking about seriously violent offenders and the

I think you’re basically right about this. When I make strident comments about avoiding ex-cons I’m of course talking about seriously violent offenders and the people who push back are (usually) thinking of drug offenders. By the way, this is one reason eliminating background checks backfires. If people can’t look up your specific offense they assume the worst. Further, the evidence is that eliminating background checks results in a drop in employment for black men. If people can’t check whether a candidate is an offender, then they resort to broader statistics and patterns for their decision making, and the statistics being what they are, this mostly just hurts black men who have never committed a crime. See, for example: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/705880#d33458794e1 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/705880#d3...