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It is #FunnyNotFunny to watch a society embrace tyranny in the name of some Jacobin wokeness. Let us do victory laps in the name of tolerance and diversity in
by smitty1e 6y ago
It is #FunnyNotFunny to watch a society embrace tyranny in the name of some Jacobin wokeness.
Let us do victory laps in the name of tolerance and diversity in all but thought.
This message may mean nothing until some innocuous pursuit of yours has a fatwah pronounced against it, and suddenly Niemöller[1] becomes personal.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
- tonystubblebine 6y agoWe already have tyranny. Are you this active against mass incarceration?
- smitty1e 6y agoWhat mass incarceration? The 'Rona had been a pretext to empty the jails, I thought.
- jlokier 6y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... > The United States has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate > the US held 21.0% of the world's prisoners in 2015, even though the US represented only around 4.4 percent of the world's population in 2015 > The U.S. incarceration rate peaked in 2008 when about 1 in 100 US adults was behind bars. This incarceration rate exceeded the average incarceration levels in the Soviet Union during the existence of the Gulag system > one out of every 27 children in the United States having an incarcerated parent > Critics have lambasted the United States for incarcerating a large number of non-violent and victimless offenders; half of all persons incarcerated under state jurisdiction are for non-violent offenses