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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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
Mostly because I’m a woman, and crimes are typically committed by men. If you think that the worth, the most racist thing that can happen in a society is for a man to be stopped by police because he matches the description of a perpetrator, you are priveleged.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
Yes, thankfully women are not nearly as over-policed as men. Racial disparities exist among women, too. I hope you appreciate both privileges. And ask the families of Sandra Bland or any other African American killed by police whether racial profiling is the worst racist thing
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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
If white women were incarcerated at the same rate as black men, we would have been intentionally targeted, and racially profiled. This, incidentally, is the intent of the CAREN Act. It’s in the name; it is to criminalise white womanhood.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @SustainableFred and
You know what’s white privilege? The believe that black neighbourhoods are “overpoliced,” when people who live there actually want more policing. Some say that unarmed white men are disproportionally killed by police during arrests, but I suspect the numbers for all races are
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @SustainableFred and
too low to draw any conclusions, let alone claim anything systemic.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
It is systemic. Sadly the numbers are high enough for statistically significant differences. https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/
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Replying to @SustainableFred @KatyaSedgwick and
And you keep saying that it’s white privilege to amplify what black community leaders and individuals have been saying for decades and have repeatedly taken to the streets over, while you parrot right-wing (mostly white) talking heads on what black communities SHOULD believe.
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Have you ever lived in the ghetto for a significant period of time, Mr. Werner?
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Replying to @MonsieurBouvard @SustainableFred and
He probably lives in the Mission, which he imagines to be like a hood. Thing is, all white people know, which is why they don’t live in black neighborhoods.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @SustainableFred and
I lived on the south side of Chicago for 7 years. It was a practical, political, and a university education.
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