Let me be clear: I had ZERO faith in Sanders. To me, he's a career Washington insider, and his unwillingness to address the filibuster or the Supreme Court meant his only contribution to America as president would be moving the Overton window to the left. Instead it's going righthttps://twitter.com/aguyuno/status/1237736287253286913 …
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YUP. and saying this online is heresy. Because it's one of those weird symbolic points that We Have Always Been At War With the Carceral State. Or the reluctance to consider the idea many marginalized groups are pretty conservative in their own right.
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The reason for that is that crime was...really bad! If you're under 40, you probably don't remember, but it was a serious issue. Yes, we now know it was probably lead abatement that solved it, but at the time people were looking for any solution that could possibly work.
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It's not a coincidence that the crime bill was passed in the mid-nineties, at a time where the violent crime rate was four times what it was in the 60s, and twice what it is today. It was a frightening time, and people generally react to being scared with draconian options.pic.twitter.com/Ov7zJVj8h8
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It's similarly just a fact that even today prison abolition is an *incredibly* unpopular platform, including in Black communities The people who support it are a very small and eclectic subset of the populace
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Yeahhh, and one of the obnoxious rhetorical norms/tricks of Online is to essentially manufacture legitimacy by claiming one's identity group monolithically supports a position as proof of its validity.
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