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Have they considered doubling the number of prisons and providing police with tanks?
No, this is seen as a drug that white people are addicted to.
Treatment and compassion only.
(Not joking)
America's response to the opioid epidemic is a far cry from treatment and compassion. They're literally charging friends (addicts) of overdose victims with murder just for being associated by redefining "drug dealer" to be super broad and reclasifying ODs as poisonings.
Amazing read: He Tried to Save a Friend. They Charged Him With Murder.
Yeah...as a white person from Appalachia that's definitely not the case in large swaths of the country where the actual plan is "fuck those poor hillbillies, let em die."
Yeah... It was a culture shock going from Marietta/Parkersburg area to college in Akron ... just in terms of like "wait, you went on vacation out of the country!?", "cedar point wasn't the vacation but just a thing you did one, two, three, many times during the summer?!", etc
Pretty much fully incognito as a college educated urbanite now, but the roots are still there...
Oh hey there, MOV. I probably know your family lol. I grew up in Belpre. And I hear ya about the culture shock. It took me a long time to realize that Appalachian is a thing I can identify as
You guys aren't "that" kind of white. I'd guess the Appalachian racism was a pivot from Irish targeted hate, and got a pass to keep going through the years bc poor and Catholic.
Correct. While technically "white" in that I am able to access the benefits of white privilege by masking my accent and dressing "fancy," we are not the WASPs most people think of when they think "wypipo"
Don't give them ideas. They'll have everyone and their mothers working in a private prison factory by winter!
Everyone's either a convict making products or a guard, it's the perfect citizenry!
No , but I understand invading Mexico is on tap