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Old 12-09-2017, 04:37 PM   #171 (permalink)
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Informal "respectability" codes might have more to do with harsher attitudes from the cops than racism or povertry. I'm sure a white boy wearing an oversized T-shirt with marijuana leaves print would be more likely to get stopped than a black one wearing something that could be deemed less offensive.


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Old 12-09-2017, 04:47 PM   #172 (permalink)
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freebeard- Less offensive to the easily triggered folks whose jobs depend on constantly feeding the prison-industrial complex and showing evidence of a high "crime" rate that they're actively fighting.

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I came into work, started talking to my supervisor, she pulled out her phone and called a friend.

I guess that I am going to try to not talk to her again.

I am considered "antisocial."
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freebeard- Less offensive to the easily triggered folks whose jobs depend on constantly feeding the prison-industrial complex and showing evidence of a high "crime" rate that they're actively fighting.
When I said it was offensive, I was actually considering it part of a whole bunch of uncivilized behaviors that some of the youth is following as an attempt to shock or to disgust anybody else. Basically, these kids nowadays are just a bunch of attention-seekers, and pretending to be a pothead sure attracts a lot of attention to them, even if some of that attention might be considered undesirable by anybody else (i.e. getting stopped and searched by the police, eventually arrested or just beaten the hell out of, more often).
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They're doing it wrong. I survived decades of prohibition by keeping it on the down low.
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The pot leaf is seen by authority as anti-authoritarian.

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The pot leaf is seen by authority as anti-authoritarian.
It's not really meant to look like an anti-authoritarian statement. Well, even in the favelas where they get the weed from, the drug dealers enforce some form of parallel authority.
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The pot leaf is seen by authority as anti-authoritarian.

And sometimes the authoritarian jerks are on too much of a hair trigger.

Couple says mistaken Ohio State buckeye leaf got them stopped by police
https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/coup...pped-by-police

The Buckeye is the state tree of Ohio. Nice work, officer.


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