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> The drug war happened because America is a rigidly moralistic society That reductive. Things can happen for multiple reasons. > Nixon also happened to be ra
by tchaffee 4y ago
> The drug war happened because America is a rigidly moralistic society
That reductive. Things can happen for multiple reasons.
> Nixon also happened to be racist... But that’s not causation.
Sure it is. If you are racist and you do things that have a racist outcome, it's racism. What kind of mental hoops are you jumping through to get to some other conclusion?
- tptacek 4y agoI mean, it's worse than that, right? It's, "If you're a racist, and you do things that have a racist outcome, and you do them deliberately to further that racist outcome, literally citing racism as a rationale, it's racist".
- DonHopkins 4y agoAnd I'll add that if you bend over backward and twist yourself into a logical pretzel to defend racists from being called racist because of their racist words and racist behaviors and racist outcomes and racist supporters, then you're most probably racist too. Like the people who defend Eric S Raymond's racist edge lord bullshit because they think he's just trying to show off how clever he is to say manifestly racist shit to provoke people and then trying to talk his way out of it by accusing everyone of being less intelligent and open minded than he is.