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"If you didn't want fascism you should have voted!" (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Give an example from either of those crime bills that is specifically right wing.

Because I don't see lynchings happening anymore. Nor do I see lynchings written into either of those crime bills. I don't even see in the bills where it says minorities are to be arrested in greater numbers than whites.

That minorities are over represented in prison isn't written into the crime bills. That's a problem of systematic poverty in minority communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That minorities are over represented in prison isn’t written into the crime bills.

It is. It created disproportionate mandatory minimum sentencing surrounding powdered and crack cocaine, and since crack cocaine was affecting the black community at much higher rates than the white community, this led to a huge increase in the incarceration of black Americans. To be blunt, this is common knowledge, and you should be embarrassed to be missing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

Black communities asked for the bill. It was written by Black leaders.

"Rep. Bass is right. According to a 1994 Gallup survey, 58% of African Americans supported the crime bill, compared to 49% of white Americans. Most Black mayors, who were grappling with a record wave of violent crime, did so as well. As he joined a delegation of mayors lobbying Congress to back the bill, Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke said, “We’re trying very hard to explain to Congress that this is a matter that needs bipartisan support.”"

"In a recent interview Rep. James Clyburn, a member of the House leadership and one of the most powerful African American elected officials, reflected on the reasons for his vote in favor of the bill. “Crack cocaine was a scourge in the Black community,” he recalled. “They wanted it out of those communities, and they had gotten very tough on drugs. And that’s why yours truly, and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, voted for that 1994 crime bill.”"

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-the-1994-crime-bill-cause-mass-incarceration/