We choose a false and cowardly pacifism that demands a nonviolence that does not threaten us, while embracing a violence that makes us feel safe.
Oh wow this essay is good. h/t https://mastodon.online/@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
My latest:
SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that police have no legal duty to protect us—so why do we keep throwing money at an org with no duty to keep us safe? And perhaps most importantly, how do we *actually* ensure public safety?
Read sub & share: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-many-people-realize-police-have
We choose a false and cowardly pacifism that demands a nonviolence that does not threaten us, while embracing a violence that makes us feel safe.
Oh wow this essay is good. h/t https://mastodon.online/@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
"Safety is a rhetorical weapon wielded to make people feel less safe. We are in an endless cycle of fear, which generates an authoritarian reaction, generating more fear and more authoritarian reaction. How do we break free?"
"We don’t know what our nation without police would look like. But we know that our society with police is violent, racist, precarious, unequal, and unfree."
~ Mariame Kaba
https://thebaffler.com/latest/illusions-of-safety-kaba
#Police #Abolition #MariameKaba