r/MurderedByWords • u/iTriggerChuds • Dec 11 '19

Murder Someone call an ambulance

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u/ThriceDamnedMiller Dec 11 '19

One of Nixon's aides admitted that the war on drugs was designed to target black communities and anti-war left.

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u/Scrantonstrangla Dec 11 '19

Yeah... 23rds of a century ago

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u/TheDutchin Dec 11 '19

So affected the lives of people living today, got it.

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u/Scrantonstrangla Dec 11 '19

In what way?

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u/TheDutchin Dec 11 '19

I have heard the time in prison affects your life, something about the ability to land a job, losing years of freedom, the mental damage being incarcerated inflicts on people, etc etc etc.

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u/voncornhole2 Dec 11 '19

People in some states are still being put in jail for possession of drugs

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u/Scrantonstrangla Dec 11 '19

How is that institutional racism?

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u/TheDutchin Dec 11 '19

Because one of Nixon's aides admitted the war on drugs was racist.

Deja vu.

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u/Scrantonstrangla Dec 11 '19

It’s from half a century ago

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u/TheDutchin Dec 11 '19

Yeah, so there are people alive today who were imprisoned because of it.

Deja, deja vu.

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u/Scrantonstrangla Dec 11 '19

Nah they dead

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u/clowntowne Dec 11 '19

Because the entire policy that is still in force today was designed with racist intent you dense motherfucker

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u/Scrantonstrangla Dec 11 '19

The policy actually drastically changed in the late 70s and again in the mid 80s.

Nothing of Nixon’s war on crime exists today

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u/Handburn Dec 11 '19

Glad it ended then and there. No more war on drugs. S/ if it is actually needed