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It's my understanding that private prisons are used as a wedge to open the door on the conversation about prison reform. Some, less fluent, people only bother t
by Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y ago
It's my understanding that private prisons are used as a wedge to open the door on the conversation about prison reform. Some, less fluent, people only bother to learn this much about it. Prisons have a lot of problems, let's not demean those fighting for the rights of people who've had their voices taken away from them just because they're not writing dissertations about the problems. If you've Only got one tweet worth of time and one issue to speak about choose the simplest one.
- rootusrootus 5y agoBut if you stake your entire argument on something inaccurate because you think it makes the best soundbite, then you risk setting progress back in reality as people decide that you're full of crap about everything else you say. Frankly, it is the average citizen that voted to get us this system, and trying to convince them that they were manipulated into that position by evil corporations is probably a non-starter. IMO it would be more effective to convince them that a puritanical attitude towards criminals has a net negative effect on the rest of society. Get people to focus on the forest instead of the trees.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoNo ones staking an entire argument on private prisons. The entire industry is an affront to humanity. The average citizen has been staring through the wool for as long as America has been a country. Sure, convincing bible thumpers that retributionary policies against crime make America worse is a hard sell. Doesn't mean we shouldn't make that pitch, or any other pitch that might work. I'm sick of seeing people come out of prison worse than they went in knowing that my taxes paid to worsen their lives and create more suffering.