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I agree with you. The institutions should be held to a high standard, and there should be people to hold them accountable. However there are many people, many

I agree with you. The institutions should be held to a high standard, and there should be people to hold them accountable. However there are many people, many people on HN who, if asked, would say that our institutions are fundamentally broken or, as a comment elsewhere on this post says, a "discriminatory clusterfuck". My point is that this is a skewed and biased understanding of reality produced by constantly being fed negative news. Are our institutions perfect? Obviously not. Is there room for improvement? Of course! But do most people who interact with our institutions get treated fairly and according to the letter of the law, a law that itself is for the most part fair and just? I believe so.

jadedhacker 9y ago
That's true, but that's mainly true of political majorities. Political minorities (often racial, national, or other kinds) are systemically impacted. Increasingly, it is the wealthy minority that is treated exceptionally fairly with incredible deference while any poor person, if they make a small mistake, is thrown to the wolves and blamed for not understanding a complex system or thinking too little of it.
dogles 9y ago
You believe so...with what evidence? You’re pointing at a system that has well-documented, overwhelming evidence of systematic corruption, lawlessness, and oppression, both in recent history and modern day. A “few bad apples” sort of defense is infuriating at this point, because it seems so willfully ignorant. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world - doesn’t that give you pause?