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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
If you're keeping score, you've realized that this is a system where prisoners and their families have to pay for calls, "in-person" visits, handwritten letters, and email.
"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