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Cory Wong With Emily C. Browning: "Juke on Jelly"

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Belafon7/04/2020 10:47:36 am PDT

From the previous thread:

re: #334 NetworkKed

“Click it or ticket” was a gross expansion of the authority of police officers to pull anyone over that they wanted to. I’m not going to blame seatbelt laws for racism that already existed, but they sure do enable it. And while there are societal costs to someone not wearing their seatbelt, to such a degree that I’ll even agree it’s fair game for government regulation, it’s not a germ jumping from car to car unbuckling other people. And it didn’t persuade anyone that it was worth wearing a seat belt, it was just threat from authority.

“Mask it or casket” given the first phrase as context is even more offensive, because the implication is that the mask police are the ones who are going to make you dead.

Sorry. The annual advertising campaigns really rub me the wrong way.

In the world I live in, a majority of the people around me would only wear their seatbelts if they would get in trouble otherwise. It’s the same with speed limits, which, btw, are being less followed due to obviously fewer cops on the roads.

One of my cousins tried to argue back in April that we didn’t need enforcement of masks and distancing because people will do the right thing. Guess what? I knew they wouldn’t and we know they won’t.

You’re also reaching on “mask it or casket.”