It's worth thinking about at what point the country reached a boiling point about the new Jim Crow
@tieguy i guess part of my sadness is that i know there are elites in all places that understand the scope of the problem, have been for yrs
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@tieguy so i can't help but wonder where the hell they've been this entire time -
@sarahjeong sometimes fighting other real fights; sometimes calculating that they can't win yet so waiting; many reasons-some good, some bad -
@sarahjeong not to say it doesn't suck -
@sarahjeong but that it is a very, very, very old story that sucks every time :/ -
@sarahjeong and I know you know this, so apologies for semi(?)-mansplaining; but it helps me vent/keep it in context too. :( -
@tieguy it's fine, I don't have this conversation very often, partly because I don't like reminding people I went to an elite institution -
@tieguy one where we talked quite frequently about these problems!
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@sarahjeong@tieguy ya totally. + noteworthy to mention how the narrative of blame re: drugs shifted when opiate use shifted from largely -
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@sarahjeong@tieguy black/urban/poor thing to a white/surburban/rich thing. all of a sudden, addiction *is* a disease. -
@raydeng@sarahjeong I'd love to read a history of the language of narcotics/addiction. TNC mentioned one focused on turn-of-century?
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