Innate inclination won out again last week. Biden announced that he was pardoning all individuals who have ever been federally convicted of marijuana possession. His reason for doing so, Biden said, was to “right” the racial “wrongs” that the criminal justice system has allegedly perpetrated. “While white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people are arrested, prosecuted and convicted at disproportionately higher rates,” Biden said in a video.
This claim—equal marijuana use, unequal criminal justice treatment—has been a cornerstone of the Left’s war on cops for decades. It is routinely trotted out as Exhibit A in the Left’s narrative about racist policing; it got an added boost from Michele Alexander’s disastrously influential book, The New Jim Crow.
It's a plant.
ReplyDeleteGod put it here.
Government, fuck off.
Heather Mac Donald is a big government progressive puritan just as bad as any on the left. She worships the power of the state and wants to tell everyone else how to live. She wants to use the power of the state to imprison people for possessing or "dealing" a plant. A pox upon her and all drug warriors. Let them suffer pain without treatment like they wish upon the rest of us. Most of them would suck start shotguns after a week of agony.
ReplyDeleteHere is the fking argument counter.
ReplyDeleteSo, women have it bad ehh? Not treated equal?
Men are 90% of the prison population. Must be because of sexism yes?
Them: oh no, men commit more crimes.... ummm wait -
Us: EXACTLY! Exactly why blacks make up larger prison pop, get shot more, get pulled over more - just the facts.
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