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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 372: Greene New Deal |
| Forceful_Dragon 04/29/21 7:00:20 PM #256: | Banning the sale of menthol cigarettes will reduce the amount of new people who will become addicted to cigarettes. It will creates a MEASURABLE reduction in cigarette related death. . The fear that this will be used as a pretext for police to target minorities for minor offenses? I can see that as a reasonable fear to have. Police have proven that if given the free reign they will use minor infractions to target minorities. But the response to that fear should not be to oppose an objectively good policy change, but to rather keep the conversation of such pretext interactions alive and support police reform that will reduce the ability of officers to use such infractions as justification for a racially targeted interaction. Tony you are taking a reasonable fear in an unreasonable direction. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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