#punit

[odinsblog]

More of this for Fox News interviews, please.

👉🏿 https://colorofchange.org/newsaccuracyratings/

👉🏿 https://blog.oup.com/2018/04/crime-news-media-america/

👉🏿 https://aninjusticemag.com/white-shooters-are-most-often-responsible-for-mass-school-shootings-6e7b647b5cce

[is-the-fire-real]

So I wrote an addition to a post recently talking about punitive justice on Tumblr.

Someone reblogged it, then deleted their reblog and went with reblogging the original post.

I had gone to their blog to see if I'd be interested in following them, so I noticed this when I wouldn't have otherwise.

I wish I could believe they'd disagreed with my point overall. It happens.

But I don't. I believe they reblogged me, then noticed my final point about how Tumblr folks have redefined "Nazi" to be synonymous with "Zionist" and "Zionist" to mean "Jew".

And, based on their other posts on the current war, they realized they'd be ejected from the terrorism fandom if they publicly agreed that Jews have been badly treated on Tumblr in the last year.

[reallycoolsoup]

Opinion I have that I don't see anyone else say:

I think prisoners should be allowed there smart phones and Internet access

I'm against prisons as an institution and it's barbaric that there is such a limited communication you can have with the outside world, dehumanizing people by making them unaware of what's going on in the world

The ability to look up information, see the news, learn about current events, watch pornography, keep up with cultural ideas, communicate with your loved ones, be available for your kid to call whenever, advocate for yourself publicly, and any entertainment are all things I think are important to all humans and should not be restricted

[adelphenium]

jamie may i kindly ask for some mcmatt in these trying times.... I fear i miss them

certified Bad Drivers chucky + davo !! spreading the mcmatt agenda :D🤝

[ironmansbay]

“aegon’s mini-speech to larys listing his new ailments and insecurities was designed to humiliate his character” is easily the funniest breed of finale hate so far. “The guy who gets traumatically castrated as a result of an already extremely traumatic disabling event in every version of this story should never bring it up bc I, the viewer, consider that an insurmountable embarrassment for him and inherently undignified. I’m saying this for disability rights reasons btw.”

[witheangel]

dad I finished copying my lines... I will be very good

Papa j’ai terminé de recopier mes lignes… je serai très sage

[beneathsilverstars]

defenders are firefighters with less of an emphasis on fire. imo. their job is to come fix a situation, not arrest whoever caused it!!

[godsfavoritescientist]

Facing the Axolotl

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Yeah it’s cool and all that Lyanna Mormont and Wylla Manderly are such vocal Stark loyalists. But it’s actually quite important that they share names with two of the most important women in Jon Snow’s life: Lyanna Stark - his mother, and Wylla - his wetnurse and rumored mother in universe. Such stunning loyalty from these two girls who are named after women so important to Jon just tickles all the key parts of my brain. These are the women who gave him life. And it’s even more poignant when we realize that by ADWD, when the girls are declaring their loyalty, Jon is the KiTN who bears the name STARK per Robb’s decree.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

tbh saying "X fictional thing is problematic and therefore Morally Wrong" and taking it to heart like a purity campaign whose practitioners must be eradicated from this fair earth is obviously pretty stupid, nasty and unhelpful... but to me the whole "you know fictional characters aren't real lol right" type of backlash hangs out roughly in the same philosophical ballpark than "the curtains are blue because they are fucking blue" jokes, and I wouldn't exactly call that progress either

[explicette]

[alpaca-clouds]

Why I oppose punitive justice

Time for another anarchist talking point. I actually do not believe in punitive justice. I do not believe in locking people up in jail or making them pay fines as punishment (though asking them to pay for something they broke is alright). And I do even less believe in violence as a form of punishment. Moreover I do believe that the idea of punishment is rooted in a deeply flawed perception of why crimes get commited, as well as a deeply flawed idea of what justice is.

Let me explain.

I will say it again: I actually do believe that humans are in general decent creatures who have evolved to function well in groups. As such it is for the most part not our nature to commit crimes - outside of things were the crime actually is something that should not be illegal in the first place.

Most crimes, that do get committed, have one of the following causes:

It is a crime arrising from a situation committed spontanously without much prior thought.

It is a crime committed out of a desperate situation with the "criminal" not seeing any other way out.

It is a crime committed by someone in a psychologically bad place.

It is a crime committed by a true believer who believed himself to act justly.

One of the first ideas of punitive justice is that it somehow deters people from committing crimes, because they will think to themselves: "I do not want to be punished." But this just ignores the actual reasoning behind those crimes.

Someone who commits crime spontanously (which is a lot of violent crime, actually - most violent crime is not committed by someone who has gone somewhere with a plan to commit violence, but rather arises out of people unable to deal with emotions) does not think about the consequences in the moment.

Someone in a desperate situation often just does not see themselves having a choice. Examples of this can both be that person killing an abusive partner or parent, or the person stealing bread from a supermarket, because they are otherwise going to starve.

Someone who commits crimes because they are psychologically in a bad place (by which I do not even mean the serial killers, though some of them surely also fall under this umbrella - rather I am speaking of people who are prone to violence, have habbits or are forced into crime through addiction and the like) often will not consider possible outcomes either.

And the last kind of person usually tends to believe they are in their right to do whatever. This might be those abusing partners, as well as a ton of people committing hate crimes.

So, yeah... Punishment does not deter people from crimes. We even do have statistics on this showing that often enough in the places with the most harsh punishments there are more crimes getting committed than in the places with softer punishment.

Now, when it comes to the entire idea of justice... Two wrongs do not make a right. Punishing someone does not make the crime undone. Especially given that the punishment often lasts much longer than whatever the actual sentence is, due to societal prejudice against anyone who might have been imprisoned once.

Don't get me wrong: I do think there are some cases where people might need to be somewhere under lockdown, because otherwise they will not stop dealing in violence. The "true believers" often belong under this category. And some people in psychological emergencies, too.

But they should be kept secure for that reason: Security. Not to punish them for their crimes.

Punishment does not make a society safer. At best it satisfies some vengeful lustings of a society. And if we do not (and we cannot) satisfy an individuals lusting for revenge... We should also not do that on a society wide scale. Rather we should focus on making the world safer for everyone.

[zipper-neck]

I'm rewatching Death Note and it's making me think of death sentencing, the way even the show itself is like, "Don't worry, that guy was expendable because he was on death row anyway," as if the police weren't toying with the convict's lives just as much as Kira. The problem the police had with Kira was that Kira was acting as an unaccountable vigilante. However, Light Yagami was selecting targets from news reports and prisons, so they were essentially already pre-selected for him via the judicial system (with the exception of the biker gang at the beginning).

Kira was seen as a blight who went against the beliefs of his society, but he looks more like an inevitable product of that society, reflecting the underlying beliefs that they did not want to face. Kira showed the overwhelming power and surveillance used to wantonly ruin lives based on the limited judgements of humans. The structure of it was all already there, even the death penalty. Light and all others raised with this punitive system had been implicitly taught, "There are a subset of citizens who, because of their heinous actions, are now classified as permanently 'subhuman,' and therefore they can be treated however we wish." I don't know if the manga addresses it, but how many prisoners did Light Yagami kill who were wrongly convicted? Did Light take the time to look over each case file, weighing the strength of evidence himself? Or did he not even question the competence of the justice system to perfectly sift the "guilty" from the "innocent?"

Light was a naive, idealistic, and egotistic teenager. But if anything, he was just learning from the adults around him and emulating what he was implicitly taught, whether the adults intended to give that message or not. They taught about "good guys" and "bad guys," and they failed to teach about grey areas, nuance, complexity, the flaws in authorities, and compassion.

[cure-icy-writes]

I love it when a story externalizes the agony of the flesh actually. I love it when walls are made of meat and disembodied hands and eyes show up out of nowhere. I love it when the commodification of the human body is shown through the lens of butchery. I love the artistic gorey weird shit! I love rot and decay and mistreatment of the human body as a metaphor for the crushing oppressive systems.

[creepyscritches]

Being thanked for a lengthy dissection on a highly complex cancer chart is always so nice! :')

[demo-ness]

i do still think it'd suck for him really bad the whole time, but i've become enamored with the idea that therapy would be extremely effective on Bill. therapy is all about the mind, he's a mind demon, you get it.