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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•6 months agoThe fun question is: is it racism from the people administering the drug? is it racism from the people handing out sentences disproportionately in districts with shit health standards? is it racism because a “standard” dose of just about everything is calibrated to white athletes from the 1920s? or is it d) all of the above (plus probably a bunch of fucked up things that didn’t even cross my mind)?
The fun question is:
is it racism from the people administering the drug?
is it racism from the people handing out sentences disproportionately in districts with shit health standards?
is it racism because a “standard” dose of just about everything is calibrated to white athletes from the 1920s?
or is it d) all of the above (plus probably a bunch of fucked up things that didn’t even cross my mind)?
Based on past studies I’ve read, probably D.