"Prison" as a punishment is a crime maximization tool. Does *just* enough that people stop lynching criminals.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Duluth, Minnesota 1920 You may see this as "horror" or you may see it as "righteous justice." But there is no getting around the fact that we used to view crimes like rape and murder with much more gravity and sobriety than we do now. Rapists didn't get parole and probation.
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But there is the racial angle there as well... I doubt white rapists would be lynched.
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"Racial angle." Were more blacks lynched because they were black? Or because they commit rape and murder more frequently in greater numbers?
Fact: there are no cases of White men creeping into black houses and raping black women. None. Zero.
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I meant it in the sense that the life of somebody who does not belong to your ethnic group would be "cheaper", even accounting for what you say.
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You are correct. In ancient Rome, Roman citizens were allowed to appeal their criminal cases all the way to the Emperor: non-citizens, non-Romans were excluded from this birthright. We all exclude and view the "other" as less: it has been this way since the dawn of time.
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This goes both ways too. Whites are under the protection of whites and if crimes against the members of the group by outsiders go unavenged that makes the group look weak and invites further aggression against all group members.
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