Beaver@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoStates botched more executions of Black prisoners. Experts think they know whywww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down12
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minus-squareRvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 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)?
minus-squaredylanmorgan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoBased on past studies I’ve read, probably D.
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.