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Now you’re strawmanning. Read the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42596079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42596079 says: > “I'm surprised a

Now you’re strawmanning. Read the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42596079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42596079 says: > “I'm surprised at this concept spreading in the US, since the system would generally benefit from having perpetual perpetrators percolating through the prison slavery system.” A sweeping statement about the entire conceptual space of a huge country based on ideas about the private prison system manipulating an entire country.

teachrdan 2y ago
“the system” here is specifically referencing the web of government and corporate interests that benefit from a large and growing prison population. There is no reasonable reading of this which implies the author naively believes EVERYONE supports prisons. Please do a better job of close reading and critical thinking. Especially with “now you’re strawmanning,” the rhetorical equivalent of “I know you are but what am I?”