AntiFash Gordon

Let's remember that the state is responsible for not just the violence that it directly commits, but for the violence that it tolerates, as well. So when the police don't investigate reports of sexual assault, the state is tacitly legitimizing that violence. https://twitter.com/katiejmbaker/status/1043226600085417984 …

Max Weber says that the only thing all states have in common is a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. Yet in the US, our state allows sexual violence-- largely committed by cis men-- to run absolutely unchecked.

This is not at all an accident-- this is by design. It's meant to keep the populations for whom sexual violence is most prevalent thinking that they need the police to protect them from sexual predators.

And this is absolutely by design. Whenever you bring up abolishing the police, people say, "But what about rapists and child molesters?" But so what? The police already aren't dealing with them. This is *exactly* why we need strong and local community defense organizations.