Mike Brown should still be with us today.
But 12 years ago this week, he was murdered by a police officer in Ferguson. Our fight for justice and an end to white supremacy, police violence, and mass incarceration continues.
Black lives matter.
Counterpoint: Yes they should.
Stop stealing stuff. Normal people shouldn’t have to bear the burden of degenerates shitting on the commons. Incarceration is the progressive approach.
No one should be arrested—much less jailed—for stealing a tube of toothpaste.
Incarceration separates people from their jobs, support services, & loved ones. It perpetuates cycles of poverty & crime.
That’s a fact, no matter how much fear mongering the right wing media does.
The left's "excesses" were widespread normalisation of race hatred and child mutilation, mass censorship on a world historical scale, total scorched earth destruction of male/ female social relations, pro-violent crime activism, and a rolling social panopticon that would seek to destroy and ruin people over innocuous nonsense- I know that you are actually in favour of all these things but can only currently defend them by minimizing them
@xwanyex It took me a while to realize people really believed this. “Created equal” was always, to my mind, a nod at the inherent value of human life. Not that every life would end up equal. For most of my life, that formulation was so obvious that it didn’t require elaboration.
I know philosophers who dine out their whole career in exposition of the brilliant Hannah Arendt.
When COVID-19 hit, every single one kept his mouth shut.
Trust The Science Guys: I just understand that there are experts who know better than I do about these very complex and specialized topics
The Science: we measured the plastic wrong because we wore plastic gloves and it got plastic on the plastic measurer