you can also tip me at myname at gmail. I don't really drink, but you could hep me buy a book!
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they need to read James Baldwin on black cops. Or! they could read literally anything. any fucking thing.
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I guess Matt's read his own book but that doesn't seem to be doing it.
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Matt insisting that morality of cops is complicated. policing is "one of the few jobs available to working class, non college educated people." cops are the real working class!
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vast majority of cops need college degrees these days. wtf is he talking about.
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also obviously cops are literally the enforcers of class hierarchy, as well as of racist hierarchy. and we're in the middle of a weeks long police riot. but Matt and Amber want to center solidarity with cops. This is grotesque.
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"it's a pretty typical middle class job for people of all races" "they go into policing for good reasons" "oneo f the problem is that the system is choked up with all these terrible incentives."
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yes, the systemic incentives are bad, but that doesn't mean that cops are morally without stain, or that empathy for cops should be a central left approach or goal!
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police unions aren't fighting for less violence against Black ppl, you know? They work to protect officers who shoot Black people.
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this is breathtakingly reactionary and racist.
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we're at like 26 minutes in, if you're keeping track.
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I think Will is off there in the corner thinking, "Is this bad? This can't be that bad. He wrote about Eric Garner, right?"
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Matt literally mentions The Wire to show how stats regimes are bad but cops are good. what a farce.
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if it's not clear, the Wire is good in many ways, but like most media it tends to glorify cops, and ideally socialists and journalists should not use it to defend the fucking police.
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besdies racism there's also just "bad bureaucracy and bad strategy." how is this different from Yglesias? (it's different because Yglesias takes racism more seriously, I think.)
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"the broken windows theory was an academic thing that got out of control" this is...not an adequate account of the problems with broken windows policing, ffs.
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a rabidly white supremacist violent justification for white supremacist violent policing is not just some sort of good faith academic accident. jesus fucking christ.
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"it's complicated" nobody says "kill all cops" what the fucking fuck, Matt.
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Amber all in on saying defunding police is bad because it's unpopular with the working class. it's all on twitter! weeks of street protest, biggest uprising in 40years, but Amber dismisses it because she's got her fashy finger on the pulse of the WC.
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yes, poor communities have shitty clearance rates, and people want more cops, but also the radical critique of policing has gotten a lot of traction and look at the huge protests? which exist?
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again, they sound like Matt Yglesias, but dumber and more racist.
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Matt says Garner called cops on somebody the night before he was killed, and this is supposed to show that more cops are needed rather than that the entire system is completely fucked.
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are they going to mention the whole discussion of diverting resrouces to things other than cops to help these neighborhoods? or what?
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the fact that people in segregated, targeted Black neighborhoods debate whether more cops or less cops would be helpful doesn't mean you need to defend cops?
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like, people in those communities will also defend capitalism, I'm pretty sure. would you say, "well, we can't criticize capitalism" then?
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policing and capitalism are powerful, pervasive systems and thinking through alternatives is tough. but presumably the point of a radical left podcast is to propose left solutions, not just defend cops in the face of antiracist uprisings.
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who the fuck do they think is leading the prison abolition movement, anyway? they sound like they think it's Matt Yglesias and not Mariame Kaba. that is not right.
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"it's impossible to answer" Will says. it sure is if you refuse to read the work of Black activists and organizers.
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Will scurries back to talking about Medicare for all. it's more popular than abolishing the police! apparently. thanks for the insight.
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there is no evidence that any of these folks have even minimally engaged with discussions around abolishing the police.
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do some research for your millionaire podcast challenge 2020.
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