AHC: Stop Mass Incarceration in US

There was no real white backlash against the civil rights movement. Not in the way you are meaning. There is a huge thing against affirmative action which is reverse racism.

Now if you based it on financial resources instead of racial ones people would have quite a few less issues with it.

But affirmative actions is racist against all sorts of people

This doesn't sit well with me -- I suppose to start, AIUI "affirmative action" (as the controversy is understood today) didn't really become a national issue until the late 1970's, with cases like Regents, when the rise in incarceration was already underway. Moreover, the most controversial civil rights issue of the early 70's, when the trend did begin, was busing -- and FWIG neither the proponents nor the opponents were making little or no connection of those programs as affirmative action, or "reverse racism", or anything of the kind...
 
No backlash? there was a lot of racism back then, our vision of the Sixties are often idealistic.

there was a backlash. And resistance to civil rights.
 
I'm gonna have to go ahead and agree with the people questioning that across-the-board dismissal of the idea of backlash against civil rights (the fact that the same post also includes the 'reverse racism' talking point of the modern american right also makes it rather suspect). reagan's entire political career was essentially riding white backlash against civil rights and the rest of the changes of the 60s.

eliminating the political power of the angry impotent middle class male or at least focusing it's ire away from minorities and the poor would be a start at reducing incarceration rates. without the rhetoric of being 'tough on crime' american correctional policy would probably cast a smaller net, so to speak.

also, not sure if this has been brought up already, but a POD that would avoid the total dehumanization of prisoners and criminals in the public mind would probably help as well.
 
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