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I think that you’re taking the most charitable view of Anslinger’s conduct possible. You’re essentially arguing that because he hired a few black DEA agents, h
by Spooky23 2y ago
I think that you’re taking the most charitable view of Anslinger’s conduct possible.
You’re essentially arguing that because he hired a few black DEA agents, his vilification propaganda campaigns and pandering to the Jim Crow crowd in congress to get support wasn’t “intended” to target people based on their race.
You can split hairs that his actions were in conflict with his true feelings I suppose. But additions tend to speak louder than words, and brutal oppression of racial groups motivated by careerism is equally repugnant.
- gamblor956 2y agoExcept that he didn't brutally oppress racial groups... He brutally went after drug dealers and drug users, regardless of race. He pursued WASPs, Catholic mobsters, white hippies, and minorities with equal lack of restraint. Again, the problem was not racism. The problem was the extreme lengths he was willing to go to quash drugs. And that was driven by the drug use he witnessed as a child, in a white neighborhood.
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- naijaboiler 2y agoEven worse, the guy is exactly making the point that it is exactly about race. Heck the dude himself may not have been racist, he clearly used systemic racism to get drug laws passed. That exactly is what racism is. If nothing about the system was racist, the associating it with black strategy would not have worked