I have seen, recently, a lot of this proposition: use of awful parts of the criminal justice system against white/affluent people will finally lead to the necessary opposition and political will to end/change those parts.

I have questions.

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/2 So you say that's a thing. Do you have examples? Actual instances of "this routine horrible part of the system happened to a white/affluent person so it got ended/changed"? Or is this just your supposition that it would happen?

/3 If we're dealing with suppositions, my supposition is that use of awful parts of the system against normally privileged people will be ignored, handwaved, or retconned into a deep state conspiracy rather than the system working like the system (see, e.g., Michael Flynn).

/4 (This is based in part on my personal experience as a defense attorney that people with privileged backgrounds tend to experience normal operation of the system as highly conspiratorial and indicative of personal animus rather than, just, how it works every day.)

/5 Now, one way the system is broken is that powerful people get preferential treatment and powerless people get ground up. White/affluent people SHOULD be treated equally to nonwhite/powerless people. The system is outrageous, not its occasional application to the privileged.

/6 But that's not the point I'm questioning. I'm questioning the idea that "hooray, now that this has happened to Biff Yalejaw III or Cletus Triggerfinger, finally everyone will wake up and strive to overthrow the unjust system."

Yeah, I think you're living in a dream there.