• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      No. It’s only called crack when poor plebs use it, not the rich. That’s why there’s different laws.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      8 months ago

      Coke is not crack, seems like semantics, but the Rich do not see them the same. It wasn’t a war on drugs to stop cocaine pouring into the US being used by white communities, it was to stop crack being used by poorer people of color. If drugs had stayed expensive and exclusive to white folks Regain wouldn’t have felt as strongly for sure.

      The same thing with unemployment/social security being a great thing when white people had it to protect their “hard work”, but when people of color got to use the same system it turned into “welfare queens” based on a the story of a single black woman that abused the system.

      • blackbelt352@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Cocaine and crack are the same drug in different form factors. Those forms factors are tyoically used by different demographics and certainly nudged in that demogtaphic distinction by the CIA and given the excuse to the DEA to selectively enforce policy against racial minorities.