[nandomrumber]

You’re arguing that the mass incarceration of more people would have been better?

[ponow]

Yes, I would argue that it would be better for more to have been incarcerated, for that would bring greater focus to injustice and the law would be changed. Selective enforcement interferes with the feedback mechanism that would otherwise make the law work better.

[wongarsu]

If a law were to mass incarcerate people from affluent white neighborhoods it would be quickly repealed

[btilly]

Actually it would have never been passed. Nixon started it as a way to put blacks in their place.