racial profiling
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On civil forfeiture, racial profiling, and outlawing self-harm.
I spent most of breakfast today blathering about civil forfeiture. So K claimed I should write an essay about it. I thought that sounded ridiculous, because I figured everyone already knew about it. Indeed, a brief internet search revealed that even John Oliver did an extended piece on it; sure, we don’t have a television,…
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On The New Jim Crow.
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow was very good. Very scary, very compelling, very good. But I think her book would have been stronger if she had addressed what I felt was a gap in reasoning for her central claim… … I should mention, also, that I’m writing this about two months after having read…

