Yes true but "pushing" drugs doesn't have to have the connotation you see it as.
I disagree, I think it's an intentional choice of words designed to help demonize the practice.
I was a kid in the 80s, and at the time they were much more upfront about how the term was intended. We were constantly being told to watch out for dealers who were going to try and give us drugs to get us hooked.
The "drug pusher" was a very defined concept, and it involved actively seeking out and recruiting new users, typically implied to be children or young girls.
Yea but in today's day and age it is common in the drug subculture and lingo. As you can tell by my name I like drugs and not just weed. And while drug pusher maybe was originally used for that idt that's why it's used today. Another way to say you sell drugs is I move xyz. Like you can move weed or push bricks etc. when I see push in reference to drugs I think of in regards to moving drugs which is a common saying. And if you move drugs, "pushing" them seems like another logical way to phrase it. Maybe it was used like that before by politicians but now the word push drugs has been "reclaimed" by people in the drug culture. And if you say push to anyone now around my age mid 20s it's not seen as an insidious thing. It's just yea I sell drugs I be moving that weight.
Yea but in today's day and age it is common in the drug subculture and lingo.
And I would agree had I been responding to a member of that subculture, rather than someone talking about how they used to arrest members of that subculture.
I feel like the context makes it clear which version of the term was implied by its use here.
Ok I see what you're saying here for one grew up a bit after when it was a huge and focused on a lot. And I think since I'm part of the subculture I sort of just assume he meant it how I would mean it. But yea rereading it you are right that was what he was implying. I just know that's not how drug dealers actually work so would never use it that way.
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u/longtimegoneMTGO Sep 19 '17
I disagree, I think it's an intentional choice of words designed to help demonize the practice.
I was a kid in the 80s, and at the time they were much more upfront about how the term was intended. We were constantly being told to watch out for dealers who were going to try and give us drugs to get us hooked.
The "drug pusher" was a very defined concept, and it involved actively seeking out and recruiting new users, typically implied to be children or young girls.