Ezra Klein comes out in favor of a law that he admits would victimize innocents and create "fear and confusion" http://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6966847/yes-means-yes-is-a-terrible-bill-and-i-completely-support-it …
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Replying to @mtracey
@mtracey@charlescwcooke Can he ensure the law won't be unfairly used to target minorities? Otherwise 2 interest groups in conflict.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MikeBrennan330
@MikeBrennan330@charlescwcooke The danger of the law is that it will be disparately enforced to target the marginal and vulnerable.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Replying to @charlescwcooke
@charlescwcooke@MikeBrennan330 The law can't be uniformly enforced, so it will be enforced at the whim of cops, prosecutors, and so on.1 reply 3 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @mtracey
@mtracey@MikeBrennan330 Yes. But you said that, in consequence, the “marginal and vulnerable” would suffer. Why?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @charlescwcooke
@charlescwcooke@MikeBrennan330 Because the "marginal and the vulnerable" tend to bear the brunt of disparate treatment by "law enforcement"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @mtracey
@mtracey@MikeBrennan330 You don’t think it’ll just be infuriatingly capricious?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @charlescwcooke
@charlescwcooke@MikeBrennan330 It'll be infuriatingly capricious and the marginal/vulnerable will tend to suffer disproportionately, yes.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mtracey@MikeBrennan330 Why do you think that, in this area, this is lost on people who consider themselves champions of the downtrodden?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@charlescwcooke Because these people might pose as critics of state power but have no intrinsic problem with it. Ezra favored the Iraq war.
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Replying to @mtracey
@charlescwcooke Ezra & Co. are too socially removed from the downtrodden to comprehend how the deployment of state power might affect them.0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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