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It's not about the "populace" doing anything at scale. It's about making abusing people under color of law come with a fairly significant chance that there wil
by potato3732842 11mo ago
It's not about the "populace" doing anything at scale.
It's about making abusing people under color of law come with a fairly significant chance that there will eventually be a body that was formerly on government payroll that needs to be explained away thereby making such activity much less lucrative.
>Gun rights have done nothing positive for America.
Despite being 13% of the population black men have been rounded up 0% of the time. There's two ethnic groups that can't say that, well, three depending on how you count.
- dragonwriter 11mo ago> Despite being 13% of the population black men have been rounded up 0% of the time. I'm not familiar with any definition of "rounded up" for which this even remotely approximates reality.
- potato3732842 11mo agoThey tossed a bunch of Japanese in camps and right now they're going after immigrants real hard. I think if either group had a less docile reputation they'd be gone after far more surgically and in far lower volume.
- dragonwriter 11mo ago> They tossed a bunch of Japanese in camps and right now they're going after immigrants real hard. I think if you look at the entire history of the US, you'll find they've been going after Black people real hard the entire time, and that the root of mass incarceration was as a direct replacement for chattel slavery while the ink on the abolition of that institution was still wet, focussed on Black people, who have been vastly disproportionately its target ever since.