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> Make it a crime to grow a plant in the privacy of your own home and then consume that plant? Sure, why not? Make it a crime for a business to have the wrong o
by digging 3y ago
> Make it a crime to grow a plant in the privacy of your own home and then consume that plant? Sure, why not? Make it a crime for a business to have the wrong opinion when it comes to who they want to serve or hire? Sure, why not?
Wow, that's a hell of a comparison. The former case being a documented case of basic racism and political repression, assuming you're talking about cannabis. And the latter being designed for almost exactly the opposite.
Restricting, um, "wrong opinions" on who a business wants to serve is there so that people with, um, "wrong identities" are still able to participate in society and not get shut out by businesses exercising their choices. Of course "wrong opinions" is not legal terminology. It's not even illegal to have an opinion that discrimination against certain groups is okay - it's just illegal to act on that. Offering services to the public requires that you offer them to all facets of the public, by our laws. But if you say believing in discrimination is a "wrong opinion"... I won't argue, they're your words :)
- JohnMakin 3y agoDon't know why you're getting downvoted for this, it's exactly what the parent said, and a completely wild (and off topic) statement.
- janalsncm 3y agoI think the most charitable interpretation of their point is something along the lines of simply highlighting the far-reaching and ad-hoc nature of lawmaking capabilities. I don’t think antiracism laws were the best example though.
- gosub100 3y agoplenty of white people were charged with growing cannabis. I don't know where you are getting that idea from.
- JohnFen 3y agoIn the US, prohibition of marijuana was enacted for overtly racist reasons. Latinos were the concern.
- gosub100 3y agothen at some point was expanded to whites.
- JohnFen 3y agoIt always applied to whites and everyone else, of course. But back then, whites were not huge users of it.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoHippies. It was explicitly targeted at the anti-war, vaguely USSR-sympathetic left. Can't
- digging 3y agoI didn't say white people weren't included in political repression. The Nixon administration explicitly targeted cannabis-using white hippies.