Adopt - a - Deplorable Program

[loyalsister]

58. Thank you!

This reminds me of a conversation about the opioid problem I keep having. People are correct when they say white youth are being shown more compassion than was shown to black people when crack was the drug issue. I think we should also not forget the way people from rural areas were demonized over meth. The responses to each of those reflected white supremacy when people of color were locked up in massive numbers and policy makers put stricter regulations on sudafed to try to protect white people from themselves. But, the targeting and oppressive attitudes were very similar.

The sources of the disregard and devaluation of those different targets are not comparable. But in the end, they are assumptions claiming superiority that reveal bigotry. They are damaging not only to the target, but to credibility due to the extreme hypocrisy of posing as morally superior and opposed to oppression while participating in targeted bias based largely on stereotypes.