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by hot_gril 1386 days ago
This is an unverified quote from someone last in office in 1969, about president Nixon who he may have had a grudge against. But if so, which minority is being targeted with the cool-whip ban?
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People in the counter culture who are against war mongering are historically considered to be a minority

The term "minority" is not only about race

Nobody said it was only race.
I'm wondering why the question was presented in the first place then, as this is in the quote:

>make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana

I asked which minority is being targeted, not which race. Hippies and anti-war aren't a race either.
Hippies and anti-war are the minority, which is specified in the quote. Hence my clarification. So why was the question presented?
My apologies, I appear to have misunderstood the comment chain. The commenter saying that the whip cream law discriminates against minorities is incorrect.

Prohibition itself does discriminate against minorities but age regulation does not, in fact age regulation of psychoactive substances is a good step in the right direction away from hard-line prohibitionist policies.