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Have you actually done both of those drugs? They are quite different.
by tdehnel 4y ago
Have you actually done both of those drugs? They are quite different.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoI have many times yes. I was a homeless addict for years and neither was my preference but any port in a storm you know. They are definitely different experiences, but nearly all drugs have different delivery mechanisms with different onset times and intensities and long-term consequences of using them. The crack-vs-powder cocaine difference is nowhere near, for example, the difference between smoking and injecting heroin. But that is not considered a different, more dangerous, more brutally punished drug if you inject it. And more importantly the subjective experience of the delivery doesn't matter, the origin of the distinction is in the historical record. Crack cocaine was given different, much harsher, sentencing guidelines for unambiguously racist reasons, that then needed to be justified in the public consciousness.
- tdehnel 4y agoAh, at first I was like why is this person hijacking my comment to make a completely unrelated point, but now I see you’re just being anti racist. Should I never use crack cocaine as a metaphor ever again?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoPossibly? Is that so incomprehensible? It's based on a relationship between drugs that only ever existed to justify a racist sentencing policy. Not a strong basis for an effective metaphor imo, but I'm not your editor.