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0 pointsknowitnone9mo ago0 comments

are you saying alcoholics are desirables because I have a different view on them

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It's extremely well-known and documented that the War on Drugs was racially motivated, and hence drugs used by certain minority groups more than the majority white population were made illegal.

GP's comment isn't suggesting alcoholics are desirable, but that people who preferred alcohol over other drugs were historically part of the "desirable" group. That's my reading of GP's intent, anyway.

fsckboy9mo ago

are you acknowledging that alcohol was made illegal in the US for white people and only re-legalized after those laws proved unenforceable and fed the growth of white organized crime?

there was a lot of racism in US legal history, but don't try to make drugs and white people who wanted to do drugs the victims, it was non-white people who were the victims directly.

fuzzer3719mo ago

No, it's because the "Undesirables" simply have a skin tone that isn't white.

fsckboy9mo ago

pretty sure LSD is readily found amongst white people at predominantly white universities.

worik9mo ago

Look at what Timothy Leary and Ken Keasy were saying about LSD

Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.

Apart from being really stupid advice it was viewed, correctly, as a direct threat to the established order. The established order is very bad (no arguments now?) but Tim and Ken were being very stupid and bought a whole load of shit down and put psychedelics back 40 years

hobs9mo ago

Yes, but it was the dirty hippies taking it, not the god fearing white male conservatives. They just smoked cigarettes and drank until they died.

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mynameisash9mo ago

It's extremely well-known and documented that the War on Drugs was racially motivated, and hence drugs used by certain minority groups more than the majority white population were made illegal.

fsckboy9mo ago

are you acknowledging that alcohol was made illegal in the US for white people and only re-legalized after those laws proved unenforceable and fed the growth of white organized crime?

there was a lot of racism in US legal history, but don't try to make drugs and white people who wanted to do drugs the victims, it was non-white people who were the victims directly.

fuzzer3719mo ago

No, it's because the "Undesirables" simply have a skin tone that isn't white.

fsckboy9mo ago

pretty sure LSD is readily found amongst white people at predominantly white universities.

worik9mo ago

Look at what Timothy Leary and Ken Keasy were saying about LSD

Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.

hobs9mo ago

Yes, but it was the dirty hippies taking it, not the god fearing white male conservatives. They just smoked cigarettes and drank until they died.

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