• mriguy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Law and order” has always only meant “keep undesirables (minorities, leftists, workers) afraid and under constant threat of violence”. It has never meant “actually hold everyone equally accountable to the law”.

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        1 year ago

        And when Biden wrote the 1994 Crime Bill.

        (Sure, fine, Biden’s more respectful of civil rights now as President. But that doesn’t change what he did in the past.)