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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is already illegal.

Racial profiling is considered illegal in the United States as it violates the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause, which guarantees all individuals protection from discrimination based on race or ethnicity.

Also, if there is no suspicion of a crime, it is illegal to detain someone. Otherwise that's kidnapping.

These issues have been litigated many times.

[-] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

"SCOUTS reconsiders lynching"

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Don't forget his title: uncle

[-] Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

How is this even up for debate? It's like we went 100+ years in the past 🤦‍♂️

[-] Bwaz@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

How is this even a question?

[-] modus@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

For the same reason old white men can debate their authority over woman's body. Murica.

[-] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Hey now, don't forget Clarence Thomas. He's worked very hard to be as evil as possible. Sometimes old black men can be racist in their own way.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

We don't claim uncle ruckus

[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Seeing how many black men voted for trump i think they're quite comfortable being racist. Super homophobic too

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Racism doesn’t have a specific color. Anyone can be racist.

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I wonder which way they will go...

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago

So, where will that leave Puerto Rican people? Puerto Rico is part of the Untied States but the people look foreign

[-] frezik 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sometimes, I don't even know why the state option is popular in Puerto Rico. It definitely is; they've had two official but non-binding referendum on this in the recent past, and the statehood option was a clear winner. Won by good margins over both maintaining current status or going independent.

Ultimately, I think it should be up to the people of PR to decide what they want to do, but geeze, this isn't a great time to join the Union.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 28 points 2 days ago

To be fair, they're already part of the Union whether they want to or not, it's more a matter of if they get to have political representation or not.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Are you saying they are experiencing taxation without representation?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

As are Guam and American Samoa (they don’t have birthright citizenship)

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Come one man, you know where because it's already happening.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 16 points 2 days ago

Puerto Rican? Mexican.

Mediterranean? Mexican.

Native American? Mexican.

We have the whitest populace cause of jail.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Dude, as an Asian American I've had quite a few times I've been called a Mexican.

[-] oxysis 237 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Let me skip to the future decision for you: yes 6-3

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 124 points 2 days ago

Majority opinion written by Clarence Thomas.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 2 days ago
[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Reality really is stranger than fiction sometimes.

Society tends to repeat on approximately 80-100 year cycles. Just long enough for the generations affected by bullshit to lose their voices and die.

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There really needs to be a community called "jesusfuckingchristAmerica"

[-] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

SCOTUS to mandate cross burning

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

We know how this is going to go with the court's record lately. It is just Trump's lapdogs jumping when he tells them too.

[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 154 points 2 days ago

Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me???

What the fuck America? Honestly. What the actual fuck has happened to your nation.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

we’vr had sleeper cells of nazis and bootlickers on “both” sides of the aisles for a century or so because they’re all actually aged capitalists. When capitalists feel like their quality of life and profit is threatened, by labor or technology, they will work toward two things:

Moving the overton window in small steps as they test the waters and then implementing actual fascism in the waters where their tests succeeded.

Notice the areas with martial law are not really big on public ownership of guns or understanding of castle doctrine? That’s on purpose.

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[-] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago

We never had a true democracy and that fact is coming around to bite us and everyone else in the ass again. We don't have Christian denominations anymore, we have sports teams. We don't have politics, we wage culture war. God damn bless america... I fucking hate it here

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[-] whoisthedoktor@lemmy.wtf 47 points 2 days ago

Dear Supreme Court: you don't need to. They can't.

Dear Congress: impeach Trump. If someone blocks you, impeach them.

Dear MAGA idiots: shut up and grow up.

[-] havocpants@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Yeah, feels a bit too late for that. This isn't going to stop until the non-fascist Americans drag them out into the streets and dispense justice. People are going to die and the good guys are going to need to organise a whole lot first.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 35 points 2 days ago

Finally, ICE (and friends) can get new uniforms designed by Hugo Boss.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago

There's a tree somewhere that needs fertilizing.

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 days ago

We've been here before. Looking Jewish, sounding Jewish, being where Jews might live or be, doing jobs that Jews might do.

[-] Waldelfe@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Translation: From the face speaks the race's soul

(Left boy) Seven year old german boy

(Right boy) Seven year old jew-boy

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 103 points 2 days ago

Just when you think, it couldn't possibly get any more absurd.

[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Oh joy.

This court. Deciding if cops can openly be racist.

I wonder how they will rule. Lmao.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 74 points 2 days ago
[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 41 points 2 days ago

Can I pay taxes on “apparent income”?

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 days ago

Wasn't this already decided when they ruled that stop-and-frisk laws were unconstitutional due to racial profiling?

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago

Lol. You think this court cares what happened in 2013?

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[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Why respect precedent when you can just make a new one and get bribed for it?

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[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 days ago

Guys, that is a reeaaaallly slippery slope. Don't. Just don't.

-A concerned German-

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

The slope is vertical. We might catch ourselves before we crater, but I don’t have much hope.

[-] Clam_Cathedral@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

We just have to convince the conservatives that this would be a DEI program and it'll be a slam dunk case. /s

[-] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Wow, I really don't have any confidence they will get this one right.

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