With liberals, pretty much everything is racist. Now we can add the word, “marijuana,” thanks to an op-ed at the liberal Guardian.
According to Alex Halperin:
It’s been known as dope, grass, herb, gage, tea, reefer, chronic. But the most familiar name for the dried buds of the cannabis plant, and one of the few older terms still in use today, is “marijuana”.
For the prohibitionists of nearly a century ago, the exotic-sounding word emphasized the drug’s foreignness to white Americans and appealed to the xenophobia of the time. As with other racist memes, a common refrain was that marijuana would lead to miscegenation.
Wait, what? Is he serious?
Apparently so:
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
The word “marijuana” comes from Mexico, but its exact origins remain unknown. According to the book Cannabis: A History by Martin Booth, it may derive from an Aztec language or soldiers’ slang for “brothel” – Maria y Juana.
The practice of smoking it arrived in the US from the south during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mexican laborers and soldiers carried it into the American south-west. Sailors brought it from Brazil and the Caribbean when they docked in New Orleans, where black jazz musicians adopted it.
In the last few years, the US state marijuana legalization experiments have grown into a multi-billion dollar industry. But while companies build out multi-million dollar grow houses and edibles factories, huge numbers of people continue to face serious consequences for possessing negligible quantities. After legalization in Colorado, arrests of black and Latino juveniles for illegal possession increased.
Well, there you go…
And of course, there’s the obligatory slam against Attorney General Jeff Sessions:
For Sessions, it’s easier to come down hard on ordinary lawbreakers, who are disproportionately black and brown, than state-licensed cannabis business owners, who are overwhelmingly white.
The industry’s response has been to let him – while encouraging people to call the plant cannabis.
As with other symbols of past oppression, from the pink triangle to the n-word, there’s a powerful tradition of marginalized communities redeploying symbols of their oppression. It’s these communities – not businesses – who have the moral authority to decide if marijuana is a racist word which should be avoided or an important reminder of a more racist past.
Twitter users couldn’t believe they were actually being treated to this insanity.
By crying "racism" where it doesn't really exist, you weaken the cause of people fighting REAL racism. And you damage your credibility and alienate your readers.
— David C. (@DCinHKI) January 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/joeymacjoeface/status/957923706046566401
Wouldn’t that be racist?
One person asked:
Is this a serious article?
— That's Mister Party to you? (@hoogenbaard) January 29, 2018
Sadly, yes…
Pathetic article. Slow news day is it?
— Ash Simmons (@AshSimmons1) January 29, 2018
“Pathetic” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
https://twitter.com/st8blegenius/status/957932477930246144
We agree…
You need more stories about cats.
— adorable smudgie (@adorablesmudgie) January 29, 2018
There’s an idea. Unfortunately, someone might say there’s something racist about it…
This, by the way, is the modern left.
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