Former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, was stabbed Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, sources tell The Associated Press.
I constantly hear laments about how broken our prison system is. How it’s focused on punishment instead of rehabilitation. How inmates aren’t safe. How the steps they have to take to survive on the inside turns them into hardened criminals and almost guarantees they’ll end up back after release. How the entire thing is inhumane and the fact that they’ve lost their freedom is punishment enough.
Then you have posts like this where tons of people are cheering the very things they claim to hate.
You guys are such complete fucking hypocrites it’s hard to take anything you say seriously.
It’s not hypocritical if the community driven to treat people as sub human get treated as sub human. This is like those comments about how you have to tolerate Nazis because if you don’t you’re just as bad.
This man slowly killed another as they begged for their mother. He wasn’t hardened by prison but by a police force that sees compassion as weakness.
Both things can be true at the same time. I wholeheartedly want prison reform and inmates to be treated better, but since we’re not at that point yet, I’m not mad about some asshole getting stabbed in there. Some would call that karma.
Do you really expect people to hear about this and use it as ammunition for how we need to change the prison system? “oh no we need to reform prisions so the guy who killed someone by kneeling on another mans neck for 10 minutes can be safe.”
It’s like the whole paradox of tolerance thing. My responsibility to tolerate your opinion ends when your opinion is ‘death to (insert marginalised group)’. Similarly, the vast majority of prisoners deserve to be rehabilitated. But those who abuse authority to kill, rob or otherwise harm those whom they are supposed to protect deserve to be punished.
It’s frustrating how common this sentiment is. As long as people think there is justification for dehumanizing others, it’s easy to manipulate them as to who that “other” is. Chauvin is the product of a shitty system we can celebrate when that system is destroyed.
I constantly hear laments about how broken our prison system is. How it’s focused on punishment instead of rehabilitation. How inmates aren’t safe. How the steps they have to take to survive on the inside turns them into hardened criminals and almost guarantees they’ll end up back after release. How the entire thing is inhumane and the fact that they’ve lost their freedom is punishment enough.
Then you have posts like this where tons of people are cheering the very things they claim to hate.
You guys are such complete fucking hypocrites it’s hard to take anything you say seriously.
It’s not hypocritical if the community driven to treat people as sub human get treated as sub human. This is like those comments about how you have to tolerate Nazis because if you don’t you’re just as bad.
This man slowly killed another as they begged for their mother. He wasn’t hardened by prison but by a police force that sees compassion as weakness.
Both things can be true at the same time. I wholeheartedly want prison reform and inmates to be treated better, but since we’re not at that point yet, I’m not mad about some asshole getting stabbed in there. Some would call that karma.
Do you really expect people to hear about this and use it as ammunition for how we need to change the prison system? “oh no we need to reform prisions so the guy who killed someone by kneeling on another mans neck for 10 minutes can be safe.”
It’s like the whole paradox of tolerance thing. My responsibility to tolerate your opinion ends when your opinion is ‘death to (insert marginalised group)’. Similarly, the vast majority of prisoners deserve to be rehabilitated. But those who abuse authority to kill, rob or otherwise harm those whom they are supposed to protect deserve to be punished.
You really got that strawmen you set up. Sure showed him
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It’s frustrating how common this sentiment is. As long as people think there is justification for dehumanizing others, it’s easy to manipulate them as to who that “other” is. Chauvin is the product of a shitty system we can celebrate when that system is destroyed.