re: 17 Deplorable Examples of White Privilege

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Are you really this dense

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Fine, I'll change the question since you are completely missing the point.

Should people that knowingly break the law expect to serve the established prison term for that crime?

I don't think it's so much that people cannot relate to circumstances that they have not faced; it's that that usually choose not to, in any number of ways.

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The point that has been raised is that it's absurd that five grams of a substance is viewed the same as five hundred grams of the substance it was derived from.

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And none of that matters. Black people are in prison because they committed crimes, it has nothing to do with white privilege.

The beginning of wisdom might be to note the utter dependence of the US on white men—men, guys, hombres—who have contributed virtually everything that keeps the affirmative-action classes from living in grass huts. A few examples:

Euclidean geometry.
Parabolic geometry.
Hyperbolic geometry.
Projective geometry.
Differential geometry.
Algebra.
Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration.
Physical chemistry.
Organic chemistry.
Biochemistry.
Classical mechanics.
The indeterminacy principle.
The wave equation.
The Parthenon.
The Anabasis.
Air conditioning.
Number theory.
Romanesque architecture.
Gothic architecture.
Information theory.
Entropy.
Enthalpy.
Almost every symphony ever written.
Pierre Auguste Renoir.
The twelve-tone scale.
The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that.
S-p hybrid bonding orbitals.
The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom.
The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder.
Single-sideband radio.
All other radio.
Dentistry.
The internal-combustion engine.
Turbojets.
Turbofans.
Doppler beam-sharpening.
Penicillin.
Airplanes.
Surgery.
The mammogram.
The Pill.
The condom.
Polio vaccine.
The integrated circuit.
The computer.
Football.
Computational fluid dynamics.
Tensors.
The Constitution.
Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod.
Glass.
Rubber.
Nylon.
Roads.
Buildings.
Elvis.
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.(OK, those are nerve agents, and maybe we didn't really need them.)
Silicone.
The automobile.
Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes.
The Bible.
Bug spray.
Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography

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1. BS, law enforcement go after everyone now.
2. True, but who does that? Seriously?
3. BS
4. True
5. True
6. False, no one respects Beiber
7. True in most situations, unless you're Jewish
8. True, although many will assume it's because you had an inside connection
9. False, there are plenty of white people that don't get hired because of tattoos, piercings, crazy hair styles, dumb fashion choices, sounding or acting like uneducated hillbillies, ect
10. True, but generally the monitoring also comes from what the person is wearing. A trashy looking black guy will be "monitored" more than a well dressed white person, but a well dressed black person is far less likely to be "monitored" than a trashy dressed cracker.
11. Ruby Ridge, IRA, OK City, Newtown, Sandy Hook, IRS building, WACO, ect says you're wrong
12. That's a Hun, you jackass. The Huns were depicting German citizens who are Europe's version of "The Whitest Kids You Know"
13. You don't have to explain it because it's always obvious how dumb it is. Yes, you with the tribal armband tattoo, we get it, you suck at life and think Dan Cook is hilarious.
14. You would be wrong. It happens to us too.
15. It's true because we GOT over it. How many Jews still complain about being slaves in Egypt and Babylon? How many Irish complain about being valued even less than slaves while building the Irish Channel? What about the Chinese slave laborers who built the railroads? Do Russians still complain about being slaves to the Czars?
16. False. That's one example. James Brown is not a black version of anyone, neither is Jay Z, Barack Obama, Shaq, Warren Moon, Miles Davis, or insert nearly any prominent African American figure
17. BS, we're reminded that we're white, racist, evil, bigots all of the time while hearing "When I sat 'Kill', you say 'Whitey'! 'Kill' whitey! 'Kill' whitey!"

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And none of that matters. Black people are in prison because they committed crimes, it has nothing to do with white privilege.

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I'd feel sorry for you but you would probably be insulted.

From the inappropriately named Fair Sentencing Act of 1986

I believe it has been reduced to 18:1 now, after twenty plus years of prolific jailing.

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The point that has been raised is that it's absurd that five grams of a substance is viewed the same as five hundred grams of the substance it was derived from.

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i don't agree with the WoD, but it does make sense when that particular refined version of the substance caused a huge spike in crime (and after increasing penalties for that form of coke, crime fell in kind)

criminal laws are developed for an overall legal scheme and in response to the realities of the time they're created

this is the Louisiana RS 40:967




4)(a) Production or manufacturing of cocaine or cocaine base or a mixture or substance containing cocaine or its analogues as provided in Schedule II(A)(4) of R.S. 40:964 or oxycodone as provided in Schedule II(A)(1)(o) of R.S. 40:964 or methadone as provided in Schedule II(B)(11) of R.S. 40:964 shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for not less than ten nor more than thirty years, at least ten years of which shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, and may be fined not more than five hundred thousand dollars.

(b) Distribution, dispensing, or possession with intent to produce, manufacture, distribute, or dispense cocaine or cocaine base or a mixture or substance containing cocaine or its analogues as provided in Schedule II(A)(4) of R.S. 40:964 or oxycodone as provided in Schedule II(A)(1)(o) of R.S. 40:964 or methadone as provided in Schedule II(B)(11) of R.S. 40:964 shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment at hard labor for not less than two years nor more than thirty years, with the first two years of said sentence being without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence; and may, in addition, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars.


meaning they can sentence you any in that time frame. Judge decides

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Go Macro not micro, should the sentencing guidelines be so different?

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Maybe. But that is outside of my control and the control of those currently in prison.

The only thing they can control is whether or not they do something that will currently land them in prison, even if that punishment is unjust. They have no one to blame but themselves.