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Yes, the article says nothing, because some things are just "politically incorrect": prison is a continuation of slavery. The drug war attacks certain cultures.
by calibraxis 11y ago
Yes, the article says nothing, because some things are just "politically incorrect": prison is a continuation of slavery. The drug war attacks certain cultures. Some make money off cheap labor and government prison funding. A country that ravages people outside the country in war, will ravage people inside the country too. Prison is a tool to maintain a status quo by reducing many people's freedom to resist.
If the article talked about China or Russia, it wouldn't talk about regulating lawyers. It'd talk about the systematic incentives that make everyone (not just lawyers) act so zealously to imprison their populace.
- jordigh 11y agoPlease don't use the political correctness strawman. Nobody is refusing to talk about privatisation of prisons because of it. Many people talk about it, and there's no evidence that the Slate article refused to talk about privatisation from fear of offending anyone.
- spacemanmatt 11y agoMuch agreed that PC is a crappy straw man. I'm glad Slate is talking but I don't think anywhere close to enough of the nation is willing to have this conversation.
- happyscrappy 11y agoMany are willing to have the conversation, but the majority want to be tougher on crime.
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- spacemanmatt 11y agoMuch agreed that private prisons are slavery. It's superficially racist and classist, but out of misplaced respect for (white) feelings it is truly difficult to have a national debate around it.
- spacemanmatt 11y ago(downvote utterly expected)