So now that white people are getting spied on, will we pay attention to the problems that brown people have had to deal with or will we try to reestablish our false security that our country is a perfectly fair place where people can raise themselves up by their bootstraps and nobody in law enforcement has ever treated anyone unjustly and blah blah blah? I’m not sure what the right balance of privacy and snooping for terrorism is. I do have a general sense, rooted in my faith-based naivete, that taking an enforcement-only approach to terrorism without any interest in researching and seeking to address its root sociological causes is misguided.
Can we have a real conversation about civil liberties now that the government is spying on white people too? (via azspot)
I think we know the answer to that.
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