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Replying to @St_Rev
This is (perhaps) recognizing a real problem wherein any law or rule will naturally be wielded against those with less power ie manspreading laws = cops end up arresting minorities for making white people uncomfortable on the train
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Replying to @GrimConch @St_Rev
of course if that is the intent it misses the point anyway
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Replying to @GrimConch @St_Rev
like no matter how carefully you word your anti-manspreading rules to make it clear its to be used against "white patriarchy bros" the best you get is probably the cops using them to arrest homeless dudes
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Replying to @GrimConch @St_Rev
exactly -- personally the most basic reason I'm not okay with letting social justice imperatives creep in to instruments like CoCs is precisely that they're just too blunt to be safe and effective means to those ends
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same argument as with hate crime laws -- I remember looking up a hate crimes law passed in response to highly publicized murder of a black man by white racists & data over the subsequent few years showed it being disproportionately used against *black men*
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when there's apparently nothing stopping the law from having the *exact* opposite of the intended effect you've pretty much got to start taking the argument with the total annual output of the whole damn salt mine
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