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No the strategy is associate drugs with minorities to make being a minority illegal. Ehrlichman told Baum. "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either ag
by binbashthefash 4y ago
No the strategy is associate drugs with minorities to make being a minority illegal.
Ehrlichman told Baum. "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
- hot_gril 4y agoThis is an unverified quote from someone last in office in 1969, about president Nixon who he may have had a grudge against. But if so, which minority is being targeted with the cool-whip ban?
- feet 4y agoPeople in the counter culture who are against war mongering are historically considered to be a minority The term "minority" is not only about race
- hot_gril 4y agoNobody said it was only race.
- feet 4y agoI'm wondering why the question was presented in the first place then, as this is in the quote: >make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana
- hot_gril 4y agoI asked which minority is being targeted, not which race. Hippies and anti-war aren't a race either.
- feet 4y agoHippies and anti-war are the minority, which is specified in the quote. Hence my clarification. So why was the question presented?
- feet 4y agoMy apologies, I appear to have misunderstood the comment chain. The commenter saying that the whip cream law discriminates against minorities is incorrect. Prohibition itself does discriminate against minorities but age regulation does not, in fact age regulation of psychoactive substances is a good step in the right direction away from hard-line prohibitionist policies.