San Francisco leaders say they want to stop drugs from killing 700+ people/year but in quieter moments they say they can’t

“We can’t end overdoses until we end poverty, until we end racism,” said the head of the SF’s drug OD prevention program washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
It’s ridiculous, of course. Amsterdam, Lisbon & all other civilized cities don’t let hundreds of people die on the streets. They shut down deadly open air drug markets, arrest dealers, and mandat rehab as an alternative to jail

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
The reason SF’s leaders won’t do this is because they believe the drug dealers are victims of oppression, and that the police and criminal justice system are evil

I know that sounds ridiculous, and it is ridiculous, but it’s also true

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/more-black-a…
San Francisco’s leaders provide sanctuary to the Honduran drug dealers who kill hundreds of people every year. Why? Because SF leaders say the dealers are victims. They’re not. Most are saving money to buy homes back in Honduras. But victimology is racist

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-reason-t…
Living in SF and other progressive West Coast cities stains all of us who live and pay taxes there since we are paying significantly to subsidize the killing of addicts, who are often people with untreated mental illness. In the name of compassion.
Victimology is a racist religion since it defines all people of color as victims — unless, of course, they are victims of other people of color, in which case they are presumed to have been acting with free will, even though they are hooked on the world’s most addictive drugs
Victimology is thus selectively racist but then racism has often been selectively applied.

This is the point where I’m supposed to add that everyone’s intentions are really good. But having raised the alarm, & been ignored & derided for doing so, I don’t really believe it

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Already rich nations are blaming India for the failure of UN climate talks but there are 300+ million Indians who live on $1/day & it's unfair for the US, UK, Germany to demand India not burn coal before they become developed enough to afford natural gas & nuclear
It's especially hypocritical for the USA, UK, & Germany to demand India agree to quit coal at the *very same moment* that all three nations are *returning* to coal
The return to coal by the US, UK, and Germany is likely to be temporary, but all three nations became rich burning huge quantities of coal in the past, and so it's unethical that they demand that India, where 500M people will still use wood/dung in 2030, immediately phase it out
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A few weeks ago I was honored to testify to the San Francisco Grand Jury about why SF city government is neglecting its moral & legal responsibility to prevent hundreds of people from dying preventable drug deaths.

The members had read "San Fransicko" with great interest.
I am saddened and angry, but not surprised, given my research, that a member of the SF Board of Supervisors is now attacking me for writing a book documenting how she and others on the Board could immediately save hundreds of lives, and why they aren't.
I love San Francisco

I moved to the SF in 1993 to work on radical Left causes, moved to Berkeley in '98, & dated my wife, who lived in the Haight, & lived there part-time, from 2009-11

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Here's why Wokeism is a Religion

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Special bonus: Woke Religion: A Taxonomy

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- The US is shutting down nuclear plants

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On the contrary. Thanks to our work over the last few years, we have significantly increased support for nuclear energy *among Democrats*

Republicans have long been more supportive of the technology
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