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I couldn't read the article in-depth, it's too depressing. What makes it depressing is that it ultimately resolves to income inequality, which in America is onl
by vinceguidry 7y ago
I couldn't read the article in-depth, it's too depressing. What makes it depressing is that it ultimately resolves to income inequality, which in America is only really a problem because of racism. So everywhere you look there's a travesty of justice with no escape other than total upending of society, i.e. telling everyone to not be racist.
False confessions wouldn't be a problem if there were a true presumption of innocence. Our justice system doesn't presume innocence in areas where caseloads are high, it takes shortcuts. When people take shortcuts, the costs of that externalization fall the hardest on those with the fewest resources to defend themselves. You're way less inclined to think charitably about someone who looks like all the other people you lock up every single day.
With these as the table stakes, that this kind of article is even needed, that if you lock an emotionally-vulnerable person in a room and yell at them for hours, eventually they're going to crack, is just more depressing.
If you want a concrete vision of Hell, real Hell, you can't get a more compelling one than that of how America treats its underclass.
- 50656E6973 7y ago>ultimately resolves to income inequality, which in America is only really a problem because of racism. Income inequality is not restricted to minorities. There are more white people living in poverty/prison than any other racial group.
- vinceguidry 7y agoThen let's talk privilege. America's underclass is created not just by income inequality, but also by the collective belief by those not in the underclass that the underclass is worthless. If this were not the case, then they wouldn't continually create policies to keep them down.
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- 50656E6973 7y agoIndeed, Dr. King realized in his final years that to truly solve racism, we must resolve classism and extreme materialism.
- iamnothere 7y agoMLK's national "Poor People's Campaign" had tangible goals for this as well: * $30 billion annual appropriation for a real war on poverty * Congressional passage of full employment and guaranteed income legislation [a guaranteed annual wage] * Construction of 500,000 low-cost housing units per year until slums were eliminated (From here: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/history/ https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/history/) Some updated variation on this would still make a big impact if implemented today.
- gobley 7y agoAndrew Yang 2020 has policies that are inspired by what MLK promoted. The $1000 monthly "freedom dividend" will definitely be a game changer for poor minorities.
- 50656E6973 7y ago>will definitely be a game changer for poor minorities. What about poor people in general, regardless of skin color?
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