&gt; The War on Drugs is disproportionately hurting minorities<p>Agreed.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t think you can frame it as the machinery of minority oppression.<p>Erm, what? So you&#x27;re saying that, while the War on Drugs disproportionately hurts minorities, it&#x27;s not a machine of minority oppression? I can&#x27;t wrap my head around that.<p>Any discussion I hear about race always takes me back to the old Atwater quote: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lee_Atwater#Atwater_on_the_Southern_Strategy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lee_Atwater#Atwater_on_the_Sou...</a>