An Iranian university placed an American flag on the ground as a symbol of protest, expecting students to trample it. Instead, the students deliberately walked around it, refusing to step on the flag.
I bet Democrats in the USA would walk all over it.
Progressive magazine The Nation just published an extremely disturbing article arguing against the imprisonment of rapists.
The writer was brutally gang raped by a pack of men for 6 hours but refused to repot the crime to police because she believes in the abolition of all police and prisons.
The writer barely stops to consider how her decision to keep these men on the street endangers other women and the rest of society.
“The simple answer to the question of why I never reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition of police and prisons. The less simple, less articulate answer is that to pursue prosecuting and potentially incarcerating other people is inconceivable to me, even when they have hurt me more than I could have ever believed possible. Because of this, I can only vocalize what I want in negative and inherently impossible terms: that all I want is for it to never have happened. The prospect of being a participant in other peoples’ incarceration is as alien to me as anything could be, to the point that I can only conceive of it in childish terms—how silly and strange it would be to have a group of people incarcerated at my expense when doing so would do nothing to fix the damage they have already so thoroughly done.
There’s a lot wrapped up in this feeling that is hard to explain or justify. My empathy for these men is perverse, its recipients undeserving. Maybe it simply stems from the fact that (as I’ve been told) I’ve always been too nice, too apologetic, which is a characteristic itself I feel tired of apologizing for.
But I don’t want to ruin the lives of my rapists and I don’t know if they have children. The only thing I want is for them to never have done what they did to me—and nothing, including sending them to prison, will ever change that reality.
Outside of abolitionist frameworks, the suffering and pain caused by rape and other violent crimes become fodder for mass incarceration. When grief is so easily transformed into the justification for carceral (and genocidal) aims, it can feel as if publicly grieving for rape is an irresponsible or outright dangerous thing to do.”
Rarely have I encountered such a perfect example of suicidal empathy.
I feel sorry for the author because they are clearly mentally disturbed but the reality is that this ideological position is extremely selfish and puts so many innocent people at risk.
@RichardJSpencer@TomTugendhat You have no idea how the state media machine works for different groups of audiences. It’s intended to confuse western media.
Democrats running for office: "I don't know why you're afraid to vote for us. We just want to make your life more affordable."
Democrats when they take power: "We're raising your taxes, crime is now legal, illegals have more rights than you, men will be in your daughter's bathroom, and all future elections will be manipulated in our favor."
In just one year, President Trump has reclaimed American sovereignty by boldly pursuing peace through strength. Because of his decisive leadership, our allies respect us, our adversaries fear us, and the American people are put first.
Promises made, promises kept.
On the one hand the Chinese government systematically conspired to interfere in multiple Canadian elections in favour of pro-CCP candidates and also kidnapped two random Canadians living in China to use as pawns against the Canadian government.
On the other hand Trump was mean on Twitter.
So the ledger balances out nicely.