the fact that bad people sell drugs, doesn't mean that drugs are inherently, or even contextually, bad. the narrative of your essay equates drug use with social decline quite explicitly, which is a reactionary take.
The CIA flooded black communities with crack to destroy them as a people, used the finances they got from trafficking in crack cocaine to fund overthrows of governments in South america.
drugs are inherently, or even contextually, bad.
Drugs are contextually bad and reactionary in the contexts i've given - being used against peoples to destroy them (either forced on them at gunpoint like China then Myanmar/Thailand/Laos and now Afghanistan) or used to destroy captive populations inside the imperial empire (such as blacks in US or alcohol to destroy native american populations)
The quote you cited literally says it was the criminalization of the drugs, not the drugs, which was used to suppress people.
Yes com... but who was shipping drugs into these communities ? :cia:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/netflix-doc-alleges-cia-flooded-black-communities-with-crack
the fact that bad people sell drugs, doesn't mean that drugs are inherently, or even contextually, bad. the narrative of your essay equates drug use with social decline quite explicitly, which is a reactionary take.
The CIA flooded black communities with crack to destroy them as a people, used the finances they got from trafficking in crack cocaine to fund overthrows of governments in South america.
Drugs are contextually bad and reactionary in the contexts i've given - being used against peoples to destroy them (either forced on them at gunpoint like China then Myanmar/Thailand/Laos and now Afghanistan) or used to destroy captive populations inside the imperial empire (such as blacks in US or alcohol to destroy native american populations)