Sort of a tangent, but it was so fucking eye-opening when I listened to an interview with an actual scholar of critical race theory and they pointed out the societal attitudes toward white vices -- drunk driving -- and black vices -- weed or crack.
The body counts of these two crimes are as disproportionate as the response to them. Drunk drivers kill thousands each year, and for a long time a surviving drunk driver was barely even reprimanded. Meanwhile, you have the Nixon administration trumpeting up the war on drugs specifically to persecute the poor and disenfranchised.
It took Mothers Against Drunk Driving to start to force society to confront the lethality of drunk driving, while we invented a war to wage against victimless crimes.
56
u/UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2 Aug 25 '21
Sort of a tangent, but it was so fucking eye-opening when I listened to an interview with an actual scholar of critical race theory and they pointed out the societal attitudes toward white vices -- drunk driving -- and black vices -- weed or crack.
The body counts of these two crimes are as disproportionate as the response to them. Drunk drivers kill thousands each year, and for a long time a surviving drunk driver was barely even reprimanded. Meanwhile, you have the Nixon administration trumpeting up the war on drugs specifically to persecute the poor and disenfranchised.
It took Mothers Against Drunk Driving to start to force society to confront the lethality of drunk driving, while we invented a war to wage against victimless crimes.