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9th Jun '13 4:22:08 PM thatother1dude

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** A meta-example could be considered with the "fiancees" situation. Shampoo keeps slipping drugs into Ranma's food, attempting to brainwash him, etc., and Ukyo keeps trying to use her friendship with Ranma to manipulate him (and during the "failed wedding" fiasco, Ukyo threw ''bombs'' at everyone). This behavior is heinous, and is presented as heinous, as it should be. But Akane has also repeatedly engaged in behavior that is hurtful to Ranma (malleting him with almost no provocation, for example, or repeatedly giving him grief over an engagement he did not have a hand in arranging, or attempting to force him to eat quasi-poisonous semi-cooking, or keeping a possible cure secret so he'll go through with the wedding, etc.), and yet Akane is presented as more of a plucky girl bravely dealing with whatever her "jerk" fiancee Ranma keeps throwing at her. Ukyo and Shampoo suffer consequences for Jerkass fiancee behavior, but Akane does not because she is surrounded by family and friends who will back her up (while Ukyo only has Konatsu and Shampoo just has Mousse and Cologne), hence, selective enforcement.

27th May '13 9:41:49 PM Candi

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27th May '13 9:39:14 PM Candi

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27th May '13 9:38:47 PM Candi

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27th May '13 9:36:22 PM Candi

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** A meta-example could be considered with the "fiancees" situation. Shampoo keeps slipping drugs into Ranma's food, attempting to brainwash him, etc., and Ukyo keeps trying to use her friendship with Ranma to manipulate him (and during the "failed wedding" fiasco, Ukyo through ''bombs'' at everyone). This behavior is heinous, and is presented as heinous, as it should be. But Akane has also repeatedly engaged in behavior that is hurtful to Ranma (malleting him with almost no provocation, for example, or repeatedly giving him grief over an engagement he did not have a hand in arranging, or attempting to force him to eat quasi-poisonous semi-cooking, or keeping a possible cure secret so he'll go through with the wedding, etc.), and yet Akane is presented as more of a plucky girl bravely dealing with whatever her "jerk" fiancee Ranma keeps throwing at her. Ukyo and Shampoo suffer consequences for Jerkass fiancee behavior, but Akane does not because she is surrounded by family and friends who will back her up (while Ukyo only has Konatsu and Shampoo just has Mousse and Cologne), hence, selective enforcement.

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21st May '13 10:51:59 PM fdsa1234567890

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31st Mar '13 8:22:32 AM ued199

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4th Mar '13 9:31:31 AM Nohbody

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No Real Life Examples Please as per "Real Life section maintenance" thread in Long Term Projects forum.

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[[folder: RealLife]]
* New York's stop-and-frisk policy (cops can stop anyone at random and pat them down), which is applied to people of color far more often than to others.
* Law enforcement generally in the US has this problem; statistics aren't regularly published, but one Freedom of Information Act request resulting in data for two Illinois municipalities found that 40% of the people arrested there were black, although only 16% of the population was black. And it's not a result of greater criminality - in an illustrative example, [[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/in-champaign-urbana-illinois-89-of-those-arrested-for-jaywalking-are-black/261522/ around 90% of the people arrested for jaywalking were black]].
* Depending on society, wealth or social status can involve this.
* This trope can happen in situations where law and order are enforced by private police or security agencies in comparatively placid settings, such as at universities. Since such contractors are often paid a bonus for good performance, meaning a minimum of incidents, and incidents take up extra time as well as add a lot of paperwork to the typically long hours, rule reinforcement can be incredibly lax. This can make security very lax about doing its job unless they absolutely have to. This has resulted in situations where security personnel have allowed people to get away with stuff like dealing drugs, but go completely ape on airsoft players preparing to go to an event.
* This trope is the reason why lots of trolls in forums or other online communities can linger around for a long time. If the moderation staff does their job poorly, a troll can cause a big mess in the community and get away with it. When other people try to join in on the troll's games, they are the ones who get reprimanded.
* Many third world countries or places with big gang problems, the police are often unwilling to enforce the law by any combination of bribery/no room in the prison system/fear of retribution.
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13th Feb '13 12:50:29 PM Katsuhagi

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** A meta-example could be considered with the "fiancees" situation. Shampoo keeps slipping drugs into Ranma's food, attempting to brainwash him, etc., and Ukyo keeps trying to use her friendship with Ranma to manipulate him (and during the "failed wedding" fiasco, Ukyo through ''bombs'' at everyone). This behavior is heinous, and is presented as heinous, as it should be. But Akane has also repeatedly engaged in behavior that is hurtful to Ranma (malleting him with almost no provocation, for example, or repeatedly giving him grief over an engagement he did not have a hand in arranging, or attempting to force him to eat quasi-poisonous semi-cooking, or keeping a possible cure secret so he'll go through with the wedding, etc.), and yet Akane is presented as more of a plucky girl bravely dealing with whatever her "jerk" fiancee Ranma keeps throwing at her (although to be fair, he ''does'' insult her too much). Ukyo and Shampoo suffer consequences for Jerkass fiancee behavior, but Akane does not because she is surrounded by family and friends who will back her up (while Ukyo only has Konatsu and Shampoo just has Mousse and Cologne), hence, selective enforcement.

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** A meta-example could be considered with the "fiancees" situation. Shampoo keeps slipping drugs into Ranma's food, attempting to brainwash him, etc., and Ukyo keeps trying to use her friendship with Ranma to manipulate him (and during the "failed wedding" fiasco, Ukyo through ''bombs'' at everyone). This behavior is heinous, and is presented as heinous, as it should be. But Akane has also repeatedly engaged in behavior that is hurtful to Ranma (malleting him with almost no provocation, for example, or repeatedly giving him grief over an engagement he did not have a hand in arranging, or attempting to force him to eat quasi-poisonous semi-cooking, or keeping a possible cure secret so he'll go through with the wedding, etc.), and yet Akane is presented as more of a plucky girl bravely dealing with whatever her "jerk" fiancee Ranma keeps throwing at her. Ukyo and Shampoo suffer consequences for Jerkass fiancee behavior, but Akane does not because she is surrounded by family and friends who will back her up (while Ukyo only has Konatsu and Shampoo just has Mousse and Cologne), hence, selective enforcement.

13th Feb '13 12:48:24 PM TypoKiller

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