Comments | someotherguy: Rush to Judgement?

someotherguy

Rush to Judgement?

Apr 29, 2006 12:03

So Rush Limbaugh has finally been arrested on drug charges and we get to watch another example of Privilege. He's out on bail and the charges will be dropped in six months if he stays in rehab. That's exactly what should have happened, and exactly why this makes such a good example of Privilege ( Read more... )

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tesseract26 April 30 2006, 00:24:34 UTC

I would add poor folks to your list. But then applause, whistling, banging coffee cup on the desk, hell yeah! Well said, sir.

someotherguy April 30 2006, 00:37:03 UTC

Sure; and people with disabilities, fat people, old people and so on. Basically anyone who deviates from a narrow, arbitrary definition of "normal."

firecat April 30 2006, 00:59:24 UTC

Oh, VERY well put.

tracytreefrog April 30 2006, 01:05:22 UTC

Very well put BRAVO!

pure_agnostic May 1 2006, 01:45:26 UTC

IMHO, Rush is getting off with barely a slap on the wrist.

It's a shame that other people are treated far more severely. And a double shame that the US does not reform its drug laws.

someotherguy May 1 2006, 07:08:47 UTC

I don't know that you can even really call it a slap on the wrist. It's more like a warning.

I think the big problem with U.S. drug policy is that our puritan streak tells us the act of taking drugs is a sin that deserves to be punished. This leads us to see drug dependency etc. as something people deserve as punishment for taking drugs in the first place. This causes us to try to treat the supposed underlying moral defect on the theory that once the sin is absolved the punishment will be withdrawn.