All the outrage about this thread are a good reminder of who we consider citizens, whose feelings matter, and who the law is meant to protect.https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1411943649231851522 …
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They're a reaction to an army of DAs who very much intimidate their citizens, and not with tweets, but with aggressive, brutal sentencing.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/#Chapter%20II …
But those concerns - those fears, also from DAs' citizens, though notice who's called a citizen and who isn't - don't ignite this same anger or trigger the same recalls.
Such is the American caste system. The government is meant to serve at some people's pleasure, protecting them, listening to their fears, dutifully taking their criticisms.
For other people, government is just enforcement, an often literal occupying force, not meant to represent but to exploit and extract. To intimidate, by design.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/14/where-minority-communities-still-have-overwhelmingly-white-police/ …
My problem isn't that people challenge Boudin. It's that Boudin is the only one that a lot of people want to challenge.
Same idea. The tell isn't that so much of Silicon Valley is mad at these people; the tell is that they can't seem to find the same energy for anyone else.https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1410714653529808897 …
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