Anyway I visited him while he was in jail and it was awful, he was so alone. If I was him I would totally have joined up w organized crime
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Because if you have to do crime you want friends. That's what makes Walter White so sad... He doesn't even get that
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @AlexandraErin
Well hence why prison gangs organize around ethnic affinity groups -- you want something basic abt you that can never change
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Like how Chinese immigrants started mutual aid societies based on the fiction that everyone w the same surname was related
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexandraErin
Right. I don't think organized crime is stupid at all. It may be evil but it isn't stupid. It's trying to go it alone that seems awful
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @AlexandraErin
There's an argument, possibly exaggerated, that the black market/gray market actions of the mob were a bridge to respectability
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That Irish and Italian mobsters' kids were allowed to go on to join the respectable middle class
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But this was a luxury not afforded to PoC organized crime which couldn't blend into whiteness
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexandraErin
That would make sense :/ I come from Irish/Italian (and hidden Jewish) backgrounds and they took the military route to respectability
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And really isn't the military just a gang?
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Or isn't a country just a protection racket? Yeah, the argument's been made
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexandraErin
I mean I lived with some Black roommates for a while. They weren't connected with crime at all,but the rule was NEVER CALL THE COPS
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Everyone was a law abiding citizen.The reason for not calling the cops was because everyone knew that the cops weren't there to protect them
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