stew and Discour'se with @selentelechia
talking about the utter American-lindyness of moral panics as we listen to The Music Man
https://youtu.be/LI_Oe-jtgdI
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The right figured out mass media
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those were instances but I think it was more general
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Look up that tweetstream about the political radicals who got six months in jail for trying to murder multiple LEO with shotguns in the 70’s. That kind of thing kicked off the mandatory sentencing guidelines which helped make crime a thing that marked you for life.
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Then crack came along and the New Drug War hit poor (usually minority-majority) communities like a train. That’s just a little piece of it. Another example of how much of what is screwed up now is due to the effing Baby Boomers never seeing anything they couldn’t overreact to.
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