It's a bad answer, Scott.
Clean-up in the Town Hall Aisle: A day after saying she welcomed a “conversation” about inmates voting in jail, @KamalaHarris said today: “Do I think that people who commit murder, people who are terrorists should be deprived of their rights? Yeah, I do. I’m a prosecutor.”
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After your amazing defense of "Sounds like a good answer to me."
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The over representation of minorities means a block on prisoner voting is a further smothering of their voices in American politics. This needs to be part of the discussion.
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Well she settled on the right answer
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I kinda think people shouldn’t have the right to vote taken away.
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Why should people who’ve murdered other people have the right to vote? These are people so vile they have to be removed from society. They don’t need to vote.
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They're people. They have rights.
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Murderers take away the right to vote (amongst other rights) of their victims. So I wouldn’t lose any sleep of a murderer not being able to cast a ballot.
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Employers take their employees right to vote from them all the time, guess they need to be out of the boat too
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“All the time” seems a bit of an exaggeration but it’s good to know that you’re on the murderer’s side.
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Against people trying to take their human rights from them, goddamn right
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I was a federal prosecutor. I never saw depriving a defendant of the right to vote as a means of vindicating a victim’s rights or keeping the public safe.
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We have some dumb prosecutors then. They deprived themselves of the right to vote by violating the public’s trust by committing crime. Prison is about punishment too.
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A good example of why prosecutors, all prosecutors, are bad.
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So people who prosecute child molesters are bad?
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Yeah, cause that's all prosecutors do. They spend 24/7 prosecuting child molesters. Sure.
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You just said all prosecutors are bad. Do families deserve justice from violent crime or no?
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It's not about who "deserves" what. It's about constructing a better society. Prosecutors defend capitalism, white supremacy, state terror, patriarchy, and a host of other harmful power structures. They don't fit into a better society which lacks those things.
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Name a society that has not had crime or some form of punishment for said crimes. Does a better society include fewer consequences for murderers & child molesters? For rapists? They already face about as little retribution as possible, is that “better”?
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The Zapatistas don't have prosecutors, cops, or prisons, yet manage to deal with murderers, rapists, and the like.
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Oh, so you’re in favor of summary executions without a trial of one’s peers. Weird flex but ok.
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