secondmodhello ([personal profile] talentlessmod) wrote in [community profile] ontd_pandemic2021-07-02 12:25 am
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(Anonymous) 2021-07-02 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
can someone explain to me why the anti-weed rules are rooted in anti-blackness? I understand that its racist in the legal system because of how blacks are charged and prosecuted more than whites, but that the IOC is more lenient on her than michael phelps?

Is this just a case of americans assuming everything is like their legal system?

(Anonymous) 2021-07-02 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Crack laws are, but not weed lol.

(Anonymous) 2021-07-02 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
all US drug possession laws are racist in practice because of how they're applied

(Anonymous) 2021-07-02 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
it's just Americans being entitled as usual.

(Anonymous) 2021-07-02 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The TL;DR is that Black Americans are projecting the 1980's crackdown on Drugs (AKA the Ronald Reagan "War On Drugs"), that cracked down heavily on weed specifically with VERY long prison sentences, indirectly impacted Black People on a mass scale and lead to the creation of the prison industrial complex and the disenfranchisement of many black communities.

(Anonymous) 2021-07-02 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
wasn't joe biden's 94 crime bill even worse?

(Anonymous) 2021-07-02 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
former criminology major here! weed restrictions are actually associated w/ anti-hispanic racism, not anti-black racism. crack/cocaine restriction is associated w/ anti-black racism & opium/heroin restrictions are associated w/ anti-asian racism.

(Anonymous) 2021-07-02 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
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thanks for this info! does it apply to the IOC? i think the racism mostly applies to how these laws are applied in the legal system, but it seems like the olympics are just as hard on white athletes right? so i'm not seeing the connection for this situation

(Anonymous) 2021-07-03 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
sorry it took me 900 hours to reply, bb! you are correct, all athletes receive the same treatment. it was in 2012 or 2008, i can't remember, but the ioc literally stripped a teenage white girl from russia or ukraine of her gold medal in gymnastics because her coaches accidentally gave her the wrong kind of cold medicine. yes, stripped of her gold medal because of one dose of freaking dayquil.

(Anonymous) 2021-07-02 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Americans thinking their history is everyone's history. Online they have no awareness of the world. It is just like meeting them IRL.
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