If you're honest about it, the best you can say is that locking up millions of people has not resulted in America becoming less violent nor crime-free. Yes, look at us now, we're finally turning a page on a pattern that will be rued in history like slavery & segregation are now.
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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
No society is crime-free. Human nature is not infinitely perfectable. And lol, we’ve turned that page of history a long time ago. You are not as important as you think you are.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
My apology for mis-speaking, I meant “MORE crime-free” (I should’ve said “lower crime rates”), not 100% crime-free.
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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
You might want to take a look at single motherhood, and how it’s connected to crime.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
True, good point. Also, you might want to take a look at mass incarceration, and how it’s connected to single motherhood and kids being raised in foster homes, group homes, etc.
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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
Mass incarceration is a consequence of welfare state and single motherhood. It self-perpetuates.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
I’m glad you see the cyclical nature of this. If you want to end single motherhood, you should oppose mass incarceration.
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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
Not cyclical at all. Welfare state promotes single motherhood, which creates criminality. “Mass incarceration” is an emotionally charge buzz phrase that doesn’t mean anything. We don’t have mass incarceration, we have lots of criminality. Each individual on trial is tried as an
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @SustainableFred and
Individual, and given all constitutional protections (and plenty of second chances).
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
Look at any statistic about racial disparities in every step of that process. The likelihood of you or I (if you're as white as your photo) being stopped by police, investigated, charged, prosecuted, etc. before even seeing a trial is vastly less than a person of color.
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True. There are good reasons for that which you will never accept, and therefore I will not waste your time boring you.
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