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The Dig: Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis

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Drug Pusher Rhetoric Is a Tool of Policing

There are different kinds of sympathy and sympathy can be used as a policing tactic think about the the Jim Crow system racial system In the south in the u.s. Uh for much of the 20th century that was premised in some ways on on the idea that white women needed to be protected from black men who wanted to rape them. This this sympathy it wasn't True sympathy. It was policing white women's sexuality and it was policing black men. So that one thing you can do is think about what you mean when you have sympathy for drug users and and not allow your sympathy to be a A tool of policing, she says.

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