RASIE

4y

It's understandable why you frame it that way — especially since similar rebuttals are indeed valid in other scenarios — but it's a mistake in this case (albeit an easily forgivable one).

The War on D**** movement facilitated the opioid crisis, because the "When white people have a d*** problem" part of your argument existed during the build-up to and throughout the War on D**** being active. It was politicians and the media that suppressed numbers in the 80s and early 90s showing that the white suburban teens to mid-20s demographic was more active in d*** use than african american areas (including those in low-income districts).

Statistics like these were ignored because publicizing the not-so-pute reality of the "perfect middle class white suburb with gated communities" could've affected local economies that depending on suburban parents spending freely cause they felt safe in their financially (see: racially) segregated environment. Meanwhile, all the focus was put on lower-income communities, and the faces of d*** abuse and violence shown on the nightly news were disproportionately those of black citizens. (And usually, black males and females each had different stereotypical language "assigned" to them: females were typically the "crack mothers" often with a crack baby;while black males were hyper-violent d*** fiends who were depicted as abandoning their family for either d**** or from prison.)

The way the above groups' relationship with d*** were ignored/distorted in the media led to a culture where both white suburbanites and black americans using d**** became a normal thing — nobody batted an eye at whites, so itwas casual behavior.

A few years later, when the actions that kicked off what (would eventually become the opioid crisis were carried out), the white suburban generation were old enough to be prescribed these new heavy painkillers after injury/hospitalization, and they didn't think twice about taking them because they were under the impression that it wasn't bad (or as bad as the d**** they used in their young adult years).

Black americans were in a similar circumstance as well, especially after the War on D**** exasperated local financial gaps and abandoned them in lower-income areas without proper (or satisfactory) law enforcement, leading to high crime which leads to high hospitalization rates. (Not to mention the absurd accessibility of opioids that created more opportunities for temptation when it came to people buying/selling them on the street to cope with the life they were wrongly forced into.)

Sorry for the long post, haha... I just wanted to say that the opioid crisis (which is a byproduct of the War on D****) is not as blatantly simple as something like the "black people = looters, whites = gathering supplies" during big disasters like floods and hurricanes. The force behind the two concepts is indeed motivated by class-regulated racism, but the d**** scenario is a much more involved system of racially-charged media/politics, and the groups that capitalize on all the victims by exploiting what results from it.

JEEZUS

4y

Could you imagine being a US soldier, getting deployed to Afghanistan in 2002, thinking you gonna go fight the Taliban and help liberate the oppressed citizens, you get there and they want you to guard poppy field