• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    The United States has a long history of the using the legal system to enforce Jim Crow laws… but really, most of the injustice is just persistent bias at every stage of the judicial process–from being stopped by police, to being arrested by police, to be tried in court, to being sentenced. Black people are just stopped more, arrested more, tried more, convicted more, and sentenced to harsher punishments. There’s no need to EXPLICITLY spell it out. Everyone just knows to do their job to enforce white supremacy within the letter of the law.

    That said, there are definitely some laws to help along the police state oppression: civil forfeiture, qualified immunity, lower civil rights protections in “high crime areas” (read: black neighborhoods).

    The way you ask your question, though, it makes it sound like you’re asking when the justice system gives its EXPLCIT BLESSING to injustice, as opposed to just ALLOWING it to happen. I think that’s much rarer.

    • DandomRude@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 days ago

      I can’t understand how you can still believe you’re living in a functioning constitutional state.

      Everything you say is completely refuted by the Epstein case alone.

      I can’t understand how anyone can be so blind.

      As I said, in Germany, massive violence was necessary to bring about Nazi rule.

      In the U.S., that doesn’t even seem to be necessary, because its citizens apparently view blatant injustice as the norm.

      The point at which the U.S. legal system endorses absolute injustice has long since been reached. Even the Supreme Court agrees.