Blockbusting: Systemic Racism

[tipsyguam]

"systemic racism" is nothing but stupid buzzword bingo.

[BoBromhal]

Originally Posted by Motion

The drug thing is more complicated. If there was evidence that the CIA was connected to drug lords involved in pumping cocaine into South Central and Compton then they need to be punished.

Let's also acknowledge that none of that would work if you didn't have drug dealers and gang members who didn't care who they sold crack to or how it was fking up their communities. Some of these drug dealers were ruthless with how they dealt with anyone interfering with their crack business.

there's urban legend blaming the CIA for actively bringing drugs to SoCal.

The reality is that yes, they didn't work hard enough against the drug-dealing anti-Sandinista/Marxist/Communist forces in the countries they operated in.

[BigJon3475]

Still, the fantastic story of the CIA injecting crack into ghettos had taken hold. In response to the public outcry following Webb's allegations--which were ultimately published in book form under the title Dark Alliance--the CIA conducted an internal investigation of its role in Central America related to the drug trade. Frederick Hitz, as the CIA Inspector General-- an independent watchdog approved by Congress--conducted the investigation. In October 1998, the CIA released a declassified version of Hitz's two-volume report.

The IG's report cleared the CIA of complicity with the inner-city crack cocaine trade. It refuted charges that CIA officials knew that their Nicaraguan allies were dealing drugs. But, the report said that the CIA, in a number of cases, didn't bother to look into allegations about narcotics And the Hitz report describes how there was little or no direction for CIA operatives when confronted by the rampant traffic in drugs in Central American during the 1980s.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...ecial/cia.html

Remember this when one thinks of how misinformation changes attitudes and creates distrust. Conspiracy theories like this persist a very long time after they’ve been thoroughly debunked. The left has many of these conspiracies stuck in their psyche. Who knows how these lies would have played out had they had social media, a partisan media and a highly partisan government to parrot them 24/7?

[BoBromhal]

Originally Posted by BigJon3475

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...ecial/cia.html

Remember this when one thinks of how misinformation changes attitudes and creates distrust. Conspiracy theories like this persist a very long time after they’ve been thoroughly debunked. The left has many of these conspiracies stuck in their psyche. Who knows how these lies would have played out had they had social media, a partisan media and a highly partisan government to parrot them 24/7?

as I said in less detail ... thanks for posting/linking.

Now, imagine 30MM+ Americans basing their lives/medical decisions on what happened to 300 Americans who weren't treated for an STD.