“White liberals were often the primary drivers behind the escalating drug war, pushing get-tough solutions for the supply side of the drug war and coercive rehabilitation for the demand side.”
Liberals want to boo and hiss at conservatives for their racism because they believe it absolves them of their role in white supremacy. This is why you get people pretending as if they simply can’t understand what’s being said when Black people point it out.
Seeing racial stats in drug usage v. drug arrests and convictions in a DPA mailer in the freshman dorm was what broke my boilerplate white liberal politics. It’s the smoking gun.
A lot of the liberal politicians who were at the forefront of this are still there too, you know Joe Biden and other similarly prominent democrats, seems like something that maybe needs to change
