POSSIBLE class discrimination
Posted 1 Week Ago at 01:54 AM by marleyisalegend
see?? i put possible so i'm not accusing anyone of anything, but entertaining the idea of potential class discrimination (class as in social status)
http://www.lpsg.org/87201-nearly-100...sted-sdsu.html
this link will take you to a thread about a drug-ring bust at a college. here are a few quotes from the thread in bold, the rest are my own comments:
Isn't college the period where most people experiment with drugs? Why ruin these kids lives for some weed, pills, and yay?
wow, we're off to a great start. so the arresting officers ruined these gun-toting drug dealers lives? when does personal responsibility come into play?
Without the risk of getting your life ruined, dealing wouldn't be lucrative for those willing to do it. These guys should have left it to people with less to lose.
this is one of the most honest comments in the thread, with the poster suggesting that this kind of crime is more suitable for lower class or less educated people. idon't think anybodt should sell drugs but between the lesser of two evils, i'd rather it be somebody living in poverty who's trying to feed their 3 kids. i think many posters "let these guys off the hook" because of their backgrounds
just because someone does drugs doesn't mean they have a bad work ethic or bad morals. believe it or not, not everyone that uses drugs is a scumbag
do you really wanna argue that there might be a few scholars amongst the heroin-addicts that steal from loved ones?? not to mention, these kids weren't casual pot smokers, they were career drug-dealers
Don't judge them because they made poor decisions, that's what college is all about, learning from your mistakes.
does going to college completely separate them from the street drug dealers?? same crime, different backgrounds. i wonder if the person who wrote this comment would feel the same way if this story were about drug-dealers from cabrini green. these people didn't shoplift a dvd they were SELLING DRUGS, not to mention their "learning lesson mistake" resulted in ATLEAST 2 overdose deaths of their customers. education, same-gender kissing, keg parties and ramen noodles, THAT'S what college is about. not deciding to immitate the drugdealers you see on TV
Remember that these were dealers, not just users, and that guns were confiscated.
the above comment falls in line with my thoughts. honestly i feel like some people have such a laid back view of the criminals involved because they were college students. the truth is they were selling drugs that often destroy lives, and there were guns confiscated. personally i feel like this situation MAY be a bit prejudiced, as the posters refer to gun-toting, coke-selling college kids as "experimenting" and "making a mistake". i got in a stranger's car at a gas station because his car looked like my boyfriend's grey taurus (i'm not good at differentiating cars) and his passenger door happened to be unlocked. THAT was a mistake. one time as a cashier i handed a customer back an extra dollar in change. THAT was a mistake. these kids were selling drugs for atleast a few months, and sold drugs that ultimately killed atleast 2 other students. is this all forgiveable because they were "just college kids experimenting"? honestly i feel like because of the students' backgrounds people are differentiating them from the street dealers that the posters would probably condemn if the story were about street dealers. personally i don't care if a dope-seller has a PHD in physics, actually that gives him quite a few LESS reasons to be selling drugs since he is on the road to becoming a contributing member to society. in my opinion, a college-student drug dealer is NO different than the ones i see outside my window on the corner. both inhabit a dangerous, violent world and make profit off something that often destroys people's lives. i think this is definitely a case (as far as some posters in the thread) of class-discrimination. because of who the drug dealers are in this story, the thread takes a "it's not that big a deal, you're overreacting, its just pot and coke" tone. apparently if you're in a higher class, your sins are a tad more forgiveable. so here's my message: (its a bit tongue-in-cheek, don't take it too seriously) if you live in a ghetto and you're selling drugs, you're scum. if you're studying for your doctorate in business management and you sell drugs, tell the local law enforcement to quit jockin' your nuts.
Good Day
http://www.lpsg.org/87201-nearly-100...sted-sdsu.html
this link will take you to a thread about a drug-ring bust at a college. here are a few quotes from the thread in bold, the rest are my own comments:
Isn't college the period where most people experiment with drugs? Why ruin these kids lives for some weed, pills, and yay?
wow, we're off to a great start. so the arresting officers ruined these gun-toting drug dealers lives? when does personal responsibility come into play?
Without the risk of getting your life ruined, dealing wouldn't be lucrative for those willing to do it. These guys should have left it to people with less to lose.
this is one of the most honest comments in the thread, with the poster suggesting that this kind of crime is more suitable for lower class or less educated people. idon't think anybodt should sell drugs but between the lesser of two evils, i'd rather it be somebody living in poverty who's trying to feed their 3 kids. i think many posters "let these guys off the hook" because of their backgrounds
just because someone does drugs doesn't mean they have a bad work ethic or bad morals. believe it or not, not everyone that uses drugs is a scumbag
do you really wanna argue that there might be a few scholars amongst the heroin-addicts that steal from loved ones?? not to mention, these kids weren't casual pot smokers, they were career drug-dealers
Don't judge them because they made poor decisions, that's what college is all about, learning from your mistakes.
does going to college completely separate them from the street drug dealers?? same crime, different backgrounds. i wonder if the person who wrote this comment would feel the same way if this story were about drug-dealers from cabrini green. these people didn't shoplift a dvd they were SELLING DRUGS, not to mention their "learning lesson mistake" resulted in ATLEAST 2 overdose deaths of their customers. education, same-gender kissing, keg parties and ramen noodles, THAT'S what college is about. not deciding to immitate the drugdealers you see on TV
Remember that these were dealers, not just users, and that guns were confiscated.
the above comment falls in line with my thoughts. honestly i feel like some people have such a laid back view of the criminals involved because they were college students. the truth is they were selling drugs that often destroy lives, and there were guns confiscated. personally i feel like this situation MAY be a bit prejudiced, as the posters refer to gun-toting, coke-selling college kids as "experimenting" and "making a mistake". i got in a stranger's car at a gas station because his car looked like my boyfriend's grey taurus (i'm not good at differentiating cars) and his passenger door happened to be unlocked. THAT was a mistake. one time as a cashier i handed a customer back an extra dollar in change. THAT was a mistake. these kids were selling drugs for atleast a few months, and sold drugs that ultimately killed atleast 2 other students. is this all forgiveable because they were "just college kids experimenting"? honestly i feel like because of the students' backgrounds people are differentiating them from the street dealers that the posters would probably condemn if the story were about street dealers. personally i don't care if a dope-seller has a PHD in physics, actually that gives him quite a few LESS reasons to be selling drugs since he is on the road to becoming a contributing member to society. in my opinion, a college-student drug dealer is NO different than the ones i see outside my window on the corner. both inhabit a dangerous, violent world and make profit off something that often destroys people's lives. i think this is definitely a case (as far as some posters in the thread) of class-discrimination. because of who the drug dealers are in this story, the thread takes a "it's not that big a deal, you're overreacting, its just pot and coke" tone. apparently if you're in a higher class, your sins are a tad more forgiveable. so here's my message: (its a bit tongue-in-cheek, don't take it too seriously) if you live in a ghetto and you're selling drugs, you're scum. if you're studying for your doctorate in business management and you sell drugs, tell the local law enforcement to quit jockin' your nuts.
Good Day
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Comments
 |  2 kilo 360 hits of X A few handguns (which may have been personal/recreational, vs drug) and ...$60,000 cash???!!!!!! Are you kidding me... ????!!! That was it. They summed all the drugs up in the above figure, but keep in mind the above includes some non-students, and we're not getting the breakdown. What we won't get Marley... in the media.... is how this turns out... how many students were let go... is this 10% of those arrested constituting 90% of the drugs? We don't know. We also don't know in what context the guns were collected. I knew dozens of guys in college (in Southern California) that had guns... Granted, drugs and dealers go hand in hand... but the media is making it sounds like 100 or so kids were gun-touting, coke AND weed AND x dealers. My roommate had a gun, and I recall him moving 20 hits of X back in the day (when it was good X) to friends. Had he someone gotten roped in something like this... given his dealer or whatever. He went on, got his MBA from the University of Chicago, has had one business bought, and about a second, and is now semi-retired at 36. |
Posted 1 Week Ago at 11:26 AM by faceking  |
| | >>these kids weren't casual pot smokers, they were career drug-dealers Sorry, i did read an article or two on this... but missed the part were it said anyone was a career drug-dealer, much less every single person arrested was a career dealer... |
| Posted 1 Week Ago at 11:32 AM by faceking |
| | >>these kids weren't casual pot smokers, they were career drug-dealers Sorry, i did read an article or two on this... but missed the part were it said every single person arrested was a career dealer... You'd nickel/dime just as well via a "broad brushed" claim....;-) |
| Posted 1 Week Ago at 11:37 AM by faceking |
| | next we'll find out how many were on student aid... and buying drugs. Glad I am in an older generation when students went to school to get an education. |
| Posted 1 Week Ago at 08:56 AM by SpeedoMike |
| | Marley... I love crack, I am addicted to it, I am constantly on the lookout for it, even have regular outlets to get it, sometimes I think it is overpriced but I gotta have it. Oh, not cocaine, butt crack. |
| Posted 6 Days Ago at 03:04 PM by Nikkiwadlin |
| |  obviously every single one of them weren't drug dealers, but if it puts it in perspective, the police have been investigating them for about a year. who knows how long they were selling BEFORE that. even if it's just 6 months, that's certainly a career of selling drugs to me. this was more than one time, a day, a week, or even a few months. |
| Posted 2 Days Ago at 11:53 AM by marleyisalegend |
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