• Fleur_@aussie.zone
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    3 days ago

    Americans really have just normalised and relish terrible things happening to people in prison huh? Social programming is one hell of a drug

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      The “If Criminal, then Bad Person” and the “If Bad Person, then any Bad Thing OK” combo are pervasive in America, across the political spectrum, and have been for a while. At least since the War on Drugs started, and almost certainly well before that. It is frightening to have a conversation with a seemingly well-meaning, moral person and have them casually joke about prisoners being tortured, raped, or killed. I don’t think it’s an attitude unique to America but I think the private prison industry has had a lot to do with how incredibly common the attitude is that, if someone is in prison, they must have done something wrong, and if they did something wrong, any bad thing that happens to them (forced labor, starvation, sexual assault, death) is deserved punishment. It’s ghastly.

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      Generalizing Americans is just as bad as the one holding the sign. Which isn’t a comment on my feelings about Trump, just that labeling a group of people as “bad” is how Trump got to the place he’s at. I would say that most people that vote for him are lied to by the corporate media which are owned by his billionaire buddies.

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        I mean you can find the people saying they support this in this thread. Would instead saying “a significant number of Americans” really be such a crucial distinction to make.

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      As long as it is someone we don’t like, then yes.

      Edit: oops, I guess I need the /s

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        You really think rape should be tolerated and used as a punishment? That’s a serious thought in your brain?

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          No it’s ironic commentary on how easily people can justify horrific things happening to people they don’t like.

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          Or that extrajudicial punishment should exist.

          What’s the point of the justice system if people just take things into their own hands? The whole point of it is to make sure that the punishment fits the crime, and that the person being punished is actually guilty.